Present Imperfect: Stories by Russian Women

ISBN-13: 9780367284176 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 208 str.

Ayesha Kagal; Natasha Perova

Opis

The selections in this Anthology overturn Soviet-era taboos with a vengeance. First published in the aftermath of Mikhail Gorbachev's liberalizing reforms, these stories revel in the basic commonalities of human experience even as they reassert a peculiarly Russian belief in the spiritual, mystical, and supernatural.

Spis treści

Introduction -- March 1953 -- Piggy -- Conscience Deluded -- The Three "Loves" of Masha Peredreeva -- The Game -- Witch's Tears -- Steps -- A Marriage of Convenience -- Cabiria from the Bypass -- Kozlov's Nights

O autorze

Ayesha Kagal is Moscow correspondent for the Times of India. Natasha Perova is editor of the acclaimed Slavic literary journal Glas and lives in Moscow. Helena Goscilo is professor of Slavic languages, literatures, and cultures at the University of Pittsburgh.