Russian stories
by Francesc Serés
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Drift through outer space with a doomed cosmonaut whose engine is 'kaput!'; return to an irradiated village with an elderly couple who want to go home; ask yourself, did Elvis really play a concert in Red Square? Twenty-one impish and irrepressible stories by five neglected or forgotten Russian writers. Fresh-faced vignettes from modern St Petersburg; hair-raising tales of state insanity, snatched from the Soviet archives; dark fables from the days of serfdom, when the land was untamed and show more life was brutish and short. Each mines a discrete facet of Russian life, history or culture, and taken as a whole they sketch a historical arc from the nineteenth century to the age of the budget airline, offering the reader a unique combination of daring, wit, dash and charm. show lessTags
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Los relatos hablan de Rusia desde Rusia, son cuentos físicos, concretos, los personajes no padecen angustias existenciales francesas, se alejan de ironías serviles y esquivan el posdermodernismo ubicuo que desprecia formas e identidades culturales.
Mar 16, 2014Spanish
quatre contes per cada un de cinc autors russos diferents.
Mar 13, 2017Catalan
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- Canonical title
- Russian stories
- Original title
- Contes russos
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- 2009; 2013 (English translation) (English translation)
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- Catalan, English, French, Spanish
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