Authors: Various, Clarence Brown (Noted by), Clarence Brown
ISBN-13: 9780142437575, ISBN-10: 0142437573
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: July 2003
Edition: Revised & Updated Edition
Clarence Brown is an acclaimed translator and professor of comparative literature at Princeton University. He is the translator of the Penguin Classics edition of We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.
Clarence Brown's marvelous collection introduces readers to the most resonant voices of twentieth-century Russia. It includes stories by Chekhov, Gorky, Bunin, Zamyatin, Babel, Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn, and Voinovich; excerpts from Andrei Bely's Petersburg, Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita, Boris Pasternak's Dr. Zhivago, and Sasha Solokov's A School for Fools; the complete text of Yuri Olesha's 1927 masterpiece Envy; and poetry by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, and Osip Mandelstam.
Edited by Clarence Brown.
Introduction | ||
Chronology | ||
Seclusion | 4 | |
Epigram on A. A. Davydova | 4 | |
Winter Evening | 5 | |
To... | 6 | |
Arion | 6 | |
Remembrance | 7 | |
The dreary day is spent | 7 | |
I loved you | 8 | |
The Bronze Horseman | 8 | |
Exegi Monumentum | 21 | |
The Shot | 22 | |
The Trouble with Reason | 35 | |
My Native Land | 131 | |
Farewell | 132 | |
From the Author's Introduction to A Hero of Our Time | 132 | |
Preface to Pechorin's Diary | 133 | |
Princess Mary | 133 | |
The Overcoat | 202 | |
Easter Sunday (from Selected Passages) | 232 | |
In Praise of Russian Peasants (from Dead Souls, vol. 2) | 236 | |
On the Character of the Russians | 237 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Vissarion Belinsky, Letter to Gogol | 237 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Apollon Grigoryev, on Gogol | 239 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Aleksandr Blok, on Gogol and Grigoryev | 240 | |
The Controversy over Gogol's Selected Passages: Vladimir Kniazhnin, on Grigoryev | 240 | |
Mikhail Maximovich Kurolesov (from The Family Chronicle) | 242 | |
Tears | 276 | |
Summer Nightfall | 277 | |
Appeasement | 277 | |
Silentium! | 278 | |
The Abyss | 278 | |
Human Tears | 279 | |
Last Love | 279 | |
Is Russia Distinct from the West? | 280 | |
From A Double Life | 282 | |
Strange, the Way We Met | 291 | |
Oblomov's Dream | 295 | |
First Love | 336 | |
On Belinsky | 390 | |
On the Russian Language | 391 | |
Recollections of Russian Intellectuals - 1830s and 1860s (from My Past and Thoughts) | 393 | |
401 | ||
The Fruits of Reflection: Thoughts and Aphorisms | 406 | |
A Memory of Bygone Days | 409 | |
The Grand Inquisitor (from The Brothers Karamazov) | 413 | |
On the Mission of Russia | 433 | |
On Russian Distinctiveness and Universality (from a speech on Pushkin) | 433 | |
The Death of Ivan Ilych | 440 | |
Master and Man | 489 | |
How Literature Teaches Us about Moral and Psychological Life | 529 | |
The Lady with the Dog | 534 | |
Uncle Vanya | 549 | |
The Story of How One Russian Peasant Fed Two Russian Generals | 609 | |
Twenty-Six Men and One Girl | 618 | |
Lectures on Godmanhood | 631 | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | 639 |