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Fandango and Other Stories (Grin Alexander / Karetnyk Bryan (Übers.) / Scherr, Barry (Einf.))
Fandango and Other Stories
Autor Grin Alexander / Karetnyk Bryan (Übers.) / Scherr, Barry (Einf.)
Verlag University Presses
Co-Verlag Columbia University Press (Imprint/Brand)
Sprache Englisch
Einband Fester Einband
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
Artikelnummer 31292073
ISBN 978-0-231-18976-7
CHF 60.50
Zusammenfassung
Fandango and Other Stories presents a selection of essential short fiction by Alexander Grin, Russia's counterpart to Robert Louis Stevenson, Edgar Allan Poe, and Alexandre Dumas. Grin's ingenious plots explore conflicts of the individual and society in a romantic world populated by a cast of eccentric, cosmopolitan characters. He deserves to be read for his perceptive analysis of individual will and his imaginative inventiveness. Karetnyk's translation provides an agreeable opportunity to do so.
Alexander Grin, the nom de plume of Alexander Stepanovich Grinevsky (1880-1932), was a leading Russian writer of fantasy and adventure, most famous for the novel Scarlet Sails. His neoromantic fiction won him enduring popularity but eventually ran afoul of the Soviet authorities. Impoverished and increasingly denied the ability to publish, he died of stomach cancer at the age of fifty-one.

Bryan Karetnyk is a teaching fellow and Wolfson Scholar in the Humanities at University College London. He has translated several major works by Gaito Gazdanov and is the editor and principal translator of the anthology Russian Émigré Short Stories from Bunin to Yanovsky (2017).