Nervous People, and Other Satires

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  • Nervous People, and Other Satires Book Detail

  • Author : Mikhail Zoshchenko
  • Release Date : 1975
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Genre : Fiction
  • Pages : 484
  • ISBN 13 : 9780253201928
  • File Size : 29,29 MB
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Nervous People, and Other Satires by Mikhail Zoshchenko PDF Summary

Book Description: Among the most popular writers of the early Soviet period was the satirist Mikhail Zoshchenko, whose career spanned nearly four decades and who was as beloved by ordinary people as he was admired by the elite. His most popular pieces, often appearing in newspapers, were "short-short stories" written in a slangy, colloquial style. Typical targets of his satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and what a disdainful Soviet judge in one of the sketches dismisses as "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." Farcical complications, satiric understatement, humorous anachronisms, and an ironic contrast between high-flown sentiments and the down-to-earth reality of mercenary instincts were his favorite devices. Zoshchenko had an uncanny knack for eluding Soviet censorship (one of the sketches even touches humorously on the dangerous topic of party purges) and his work as a result offers us a marvelous window on life in Russia during the twenties and thirties.

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