Sergei Zalygin (1913–2000)
Autore di The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories
Opere di Sergei Zalygin
Opere correlate
The Image of Women in Contemporary Soviet Fiction: Selected Short Stories from the USSR (1989) — Collaboratore — 7 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1913-12-06
- Data di morte
- 2000-04-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Russia
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 40
- Popolarità
- #370,100
- Voto
- 3.0
- Recensioni
- 1
- ISBN
- 3
- Lingue
- 1
I particularly liked some of the more fantastic tales: Bitov's "Pushkin's Photograph," in which a time-traveler sent back in time on an important mission goes native and has to be rescued by his colleagues in the future; Arvo Valton's "Love in Mustamagi," an oddly touching story about two people who consummate a relationship without ever meeting; and A. Yaroslavtev's (better known as Arkady Strugatsky) "Details of Nikita Vorontsov's Life," which features a journal of a clairvoyant which may or may not be a hoax.
Many of the tales had twists at the end (for example, Zalygin's self-reflexive "Prose"), which, although rarely completely unexpected to an experienced reader, generally managed to seem natural or thought-provoking rather than contrived. Even the more realistic tales were often somewhat playful, and they generally had a lighter feel -- not what one necessarily associates with the heavy realism or political commentary of classical Russian prose. Grekova's "No Smiles" is an introspective look at the experiences of a woman in a male-dominated field, and Mishveladze's "A Question Mark and an Exclamation Point" is a very funny story about the perversity of human nature.
An interesting anthology that offered a different facet of modern Russian writing which I hadn't encountered before. Also worth noting is the variety of authors represented -- the volume includes several authors who technically aren't Russian at all, but come from some of the (then) Soviet republics: Valton (Estonia), Elchin (Azerbaijan), Mishveladze (Georgia).… (altro)