Издания
Peak of success: tales of fantasy by modern Soviet writers
- Год публикации: 1991
- Переводы: 10
Аннотация
Сборник повестей и рассказов русских советских писателей в пер. на английский язык. Один перевод ранее публиковался в другом издании.
The present collection is named after a story by the distinguished Soviet writer Yuri Nagibin. In it the main character, a scientist, finds a means against the 20th century most terrifying disease, cancer. This discovery turns out to be the experimentor's "peak of success", a stroke of luck that can only come once in a lifetime. However, despite his greatest achievement of a scientist, he is extremely unhappy, even helpless, before the tragedy of his personal life which is the pivot of Nagibin's story. The collection also contains of the most brilliant of Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical stories "The Fateful Eggs", Alexei Tolstoy's and Andrei Platonov's novellas written between the 1920s and 1930s, as well as short stories by the contemporary Soviet writers Vassili Shukshin, Andrei Bitov, Vladimir Makanin and Chinghiz Aitmatov. Each of the stories in the book is a masterly blending of the real and the fantastic, a fascinating and potent mixture of wit, fantasy and satire which cannot fail to engage the reader.
The present collection is named after a story by the distinguished Soviet writer Yuri Nagibin. In it the main character, a scientist, finds a means against the 20th century most terrifying disease, cancer. This discovery turns out to be the experimentor's "peak of success", a stroke of luck that can only come once in a lifetime. However, despite his greatest achievement of a scientist, he is extremely unhappy, even helpless, before the tragedy of his personal life which is the pivot of Nagibin's story. The collection also contains of the most brilliant of Mikhail Bulgakov's satirical stories "The Fateful Eggs", Alexei Tolstoy's and Andrei Platonov's novellas written between the 1920s and 1930s, as well as short stories by the contemporary Soviet writers Vassili Shukshin, Andrei Bitov, Vladimir Makanin and Chinghiz Aitmatov. Each of the stories in the book is a masterly blending of the real and the fantastic, a fascinating and potent mixture of wit, fantasy and satire which cannot fail to engage the reader.