Four Russian Short Stories

Posted on 02 July 2018 by Gazdanov & Others

In these stories, four writers all exiles from revolutionary Russia explore four deaths in a world in which old certainties have crumbled. Best Read Kindle ePUB Four Russian Short Stories Author Gazdanov & Others – kino-fada.fr Originally posted on A Frolic Through Fiction To summarise this one easily, all of these stories explore some kind of death With the first one, Kunak, coming to a grand total of 8 pages, I didn t form an opinion on the story itself however I did immediately find I didn t get along with the writing style of this author There were just way too many commas It felt disjointed, and those 8 pages felt like a faulty start of staggered progress So moving on The second one, A Miracle, I enjoyed Originally posted on A Frolic Through Fiction To summarise this one easily, all of these stories explore some kind of death With the first one, Kunak, coming to a grand total of 8 pages, I didn t form an opinion on the story itself however I did immediately find I didn t get along with the writing style of this author There were just way too many commas It felt disjointed, and those 8 pages felt like a faulty start of staggered progress So moving on The second one, A Miracle, I enjoyed considerablyThe writing style of this one ...Each of the four authors collected together in the twenty first Penguin Modern, Four Russian Short Stories, were exiles of Revolutionary Russia Galina Kuznetsova, Yury Felsen, Nina Berberova, and Gaito Gazdanov each explore deaths in a world in which old certainties have crumbled in Kunak 1930 , A Miracle 1934 , The Murder of Valkovsky 1934 , and Requiem 1960 respectively.I was very excited to get...ty i kr tk pov dky o smrti od Rus k v exilu Jeliko byly naps ny textem, jedn se o tzv liter rn discipl nu textil To je samoz ejm dom na sp angli an , kte vynalezli m sto Man ester, a Arab , kte ji v dob ch eherez dy vynalezli d iny J jsem dnes taky jeden d in objevil a to hned osmkr t a s tonikem Nerad bych se tu ale pou t l do hlubok ch liter rn ch terminologistik, je t bych v m zava il hlavy a to bych nerad, proto e nem m zava ovac sklenice.Po vy erp vaj c m vodu tedy ty i kr tk pov dky o smrti od Rus k v exilu Jeliko byly naps...This contains stories by Nina Berberova, Yury Felsen, Gaito Gazdanov and Galina Kuznetsova and it was fun It left me wanting , so that can only be good, right It s hard to choose a favourite.This collection was at times confusing There were a few elements in the first two stories that peaked my interest but the rest fell flat.Four short stories from four writers who all exiles from revolutionary Russia, exploring stories about death and survival in different views Kunak Galina Kuznetsova A story of an abandoned horse discovered swimming for its life during a chaotic refugees attempt to find safety at the coast This was fairly okay, not my favorite but on how the writer narrated the scene was superb, such devotion and suspense A Miracle Yury Felsen A mysterious story told by a patient narrator who recuperating Four short stories from four writers who all exiles from revolutionary Russia, exploring stories about death and survival in different views Kunak Galina Kuznetsova A story of an abandoned horse discovered swimming for its life during a chaotic refugees attempt to find safety at...This one was difficult to rate as having four different writers in a collection leaves you with four very different stories deserving very different ratings And of course as they re all pulled from either their original collections or a journal it d be unfair to rate the collection on how it s put together as that s down to t...Four stars for the haunting, eerie, unresolved state of each storyDon t RememberLess than a month has gone by, but I hardly remember anything of what the stories said The first one was about a horse Don t know if this says something about the stories themselves, or about meThe second Penguin Modern that I have read recently has been this collection of short stories by Russian writers.The stories include Kunak by Galina Kuznetsova, A Miracle by Yury Felsen, The Murder of Valkovsky by Nina Berberova, and Gaito Gazdanov s Requeim Each of them deal with a death in differing contexts in their own unique style, and in my opinion, varying degrees of success in terms of keeping the reader interested Felsen s A Miracle, was in my opinion slow, uninteresting and failed The second Penguin Modern that I have read recently has been this collection of short stories by Russian writers.The stories include Kunak by Galina Kuznetsova, A Miracle by Yury Felsen, The Murder of Valkovsky by Nina Berberova, and Gaito Gazdanov s Requeim Each of them deal w...

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