Stories from a Siberian Village

Name: Stories from a Siberian Village
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ISBN: 9780875805726

ISBN-10: 0875805728

ISBN-13: 9780875805726

Edition: 1996

Authors: John Givens, Vasily Shukshin, Laura Michael, Kathleen F. Parthe

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A cultural phenomenon in his day—an award-winning film director and actor who also wrote novels, plays, and movie scripts—Vasily Shukshin (1929–1974) is renowned for his mastery of the short story. Credited with revitalizing the short story as a genre in Russian literature, he was posthumously honored with the Soviet Union's highest literary prize following his untimely death at the age of forty-five.Stories from a Siberian Villageintroduces Shukshin to English readers with twenty-five stories that reflect the Siberian origins of his artistic identity. These stories, most of which have never before appeared in English, are set in a remote Siberian village caught in transition between rural…

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List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Publication date: 8/13/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Shukshin at Large



Vasily Shukshin: A Storyteller's Story



Translators' Note


Country Folk


I Believe!


Cutting Them Down to Size


The Microscope


Tough Guy


Styopka


Ignakha's Come Home


My Son-in-Law Stole a Truckload of Wood!


Oddball


Mille Pardons, Madame!


Meditations


Stenka Razin


All by Themselves


A Roof Over Your Head


Wolves


Alyosha at Large


Critics


Passing Through


Stubborn


Let's Conquer the Heart!


Vanka Teplyashin


In the Autumn


Strangers


From the Childhood Years of Ivan Popov


Siberian Pies


First Acquaintance with the City


Gogol and Raika


Harvesting


The Ox


The Airplane


The Letter


Uncle Yermolai


Text Notes


Glossary


Major Works of Vasily Shukshin