| The Beggar and Other Stories Contributor(s): Gazdanov, Gaito (Author), Karetnyk, Bryan (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1782274014 ISBN-13: 9781782274018 Publisher: Pushkin Collection OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: 891.734 |
| Series: Pushkin Collection |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 4.7" W x 6.4" (0.45 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Translated for the first time, the best short stories by the 'modernist master' Gazdanov, author of The Spectre of Alexander Wolf. In a Metro underpass, bald and dressed in rags, stands a silent beggar. In the evening, he walks the deserted streets of Paris; at night, he sleeps in a small, foetid crate vacated by the death of another beggar. He is poor and he is ill, but, on reflection, he is free. Never published before in English, this marvellously translated collection of tightly written, lyrical works represent marvellously compact miniatures of all the major strands that Gazdanov explores in his novels. The senselessness of life, the nature of fate, and the richness of the inner life - these brilliant and moving stories have it all. |