| Title : | Matryona's house and other stories |
| Material Type: | printed text |
| Authors: | Alexander Isayevich, Author |
| Publisher: | Harmondsworth : Penguin Books |
| Publication Date: | 1973 |
| Pagination: | 205 p |
| Size: | 17 cm |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-14-003985-6 |
| General note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Languages : | English (eng) Original Language : Russian (rus) |
| Descriptors: | Russian literature - Fiction
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| Class number: | 891.7 |
| Abstract: | "Matryona's house and other stories" - when the first story "Matryona's house" in this superb collection by Russia's leading writer, appeared in the Soviet Union in 1963, it was seen as an allegory of the stubborn persistence of inherent Russian values despite all vicissitudes.'An incident at Krechetova Station', published the same year, is set in 1941 during the worst period of the war. The terror of a nation in chaotic retreat is brilliantly conveyed in this powerful story of a fugitive from the front, doomed because he does not know that the city of Tsaritsyn has had its name changed to Stalingrad. Every story here bears the mark of a master craftsman writing in the great classical tradition of Russian literature. The sixteen prose poems, products of a profound epigrammatic talent unfamiliar to readers in the West. This is a book that no one who had been moved and excited by Solzhenitsyn's great novels can afford to miss. |
| Contents note: | stories: Matryona’s house; for the good of the cause; the easter procession; Zakhar- the pouch; the right hand; an incident at Krechetovka station; prose poems: freedom to breathe; lake Segden; the duckling; the ashes of a poet; the elm log; reflections; the city on the neva; the puppy; the old bucket; in Yesenin country; the Kolkhoz Rucksack; the bonfire and the ants; a storm in the mountains; a journey along the Oka; at the start of the day; we will never die; |
| Record link: | https://library.seeu.edu.mk/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=16573 |
Matryona's house and other stories / Alexander Isayevich
