A Bad Business
Essential Stories
Published on 4. November 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-1-78227-673-9 (ISBN)
Description
The stories in this collection range from impossible fantasy to scorching satire. A civil servant finds a new passion for his work when he's swallowed alive by a crocodile. A struggling writer stumbles on a cemetery where the dead still talk to each other. An arrogant but well-intentioned gentleman provokes an uproar at an aide's wedding, and in the marital bed. And a young boy finds unexpected salvation on a cold and desolate Christmas Eve.
This vivid new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky's dazzling versatility as a writer. His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness.
This vivid new translation by Nicolas Pasternak Slater and Maya Slater illuminates Dostoevsky's dazzling versatility as a writer. His remarkable short fiction swings from wickedly sharp humour to gripping psychological intensity, from cynical social mockery to moments of unexpected tenderness.
Reviews / Votes
A sprightly new translation... reminds us how extremely funny [Dostoevsky] could be -- A.N. Wilson * TLS *More details
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
274 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78227-673-9 (9781782276739)
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11/2021
Pushkin Press
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Persons
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY was born in Oscow in 1821. A strong critic of the tsarist regime, he spent four years in a Siberian prison camp followed by six years of military service in exile. A renowned writer and journalist, is masterpieces of psychological and existential fiction include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, The Brothers Karamazov and Notes from the Underground.
NICOLAS PASTERNAK SLATER, a bilingual nephew of Boris Pasternak, is a retired haemotologist. Published translations include Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Tolstoy's short stories, and, for Pushkin Press, stories by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov.
MAYA SLATER has published translations of Moliere and other French writers, and co-translations with her husband Nicolas Pasternak Slater. She is a Senoir Research Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.
NICOLAS PASTERNAK SLATER, a bilingual nephew of Boris Pasternak, is a retired haemotologist. Published translations include Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, Tolstoy's short stories, and, for Pushkin Press, stories by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov.
MAYA SLATER has published translations of Moliere and other French writers, and co-translations with her husband Nicolas Pasternak Slater. She is a Senoir Research Fellow of Queen Mary University of London.
Content
A Bad Business
Conversations in a Graveyard (Bobok)
A Meek Creature
The Crocodile
The Heavenly Christmas Tree
The Peasant Marey
Conversations in a Graveyard (Bobok)
A Meek Creature
The Crocodile
The Heavenly Christmas Tree
The Peasant Marey