Gambrinus, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (English and Russian Edition)

Kuprin, Aleksandr Ivanovich

Literature & Fiction

Ayer Co. Pub

Slav Soul, and Other Stories (Short Story Index Reprint Series) (English and Russian Edition)

Short Stories & Anthologies

First published in the original Russian in 1905, this is considered Kuprin's best work and won him the praise of fellow writers including Chekhov, Gorky and Tolstoy.

The Duel (The Hyperion Library of World Literature)

Hyperion Pr

Yama: The Pit (English and Russian Edition)

Kuprin, Aleksandr I

"With us, you see," Kuprin makes the reporter Platonov, his mouthpiece, say in Yama, "they write about detectives, about lawyers, about inspectors of the revenue, about pedagogues, about attorneys, about the police, about officers, about sensual ladies, about engineers, about baritones—and really, by God, altogether well—cleverly, with finesse and talent. But, after all, all these people are rubbish, and their life is not life, but some sort of conjured up, spectral, unnecessary delirium of world culture. But there are two singular realities—ancient as humanity itself: the prostitute and the moujik. And about them we know nothing, save some tinsel, gingerbread, debauched depictions in literature..."   And, curiously enough, it is another great Russian, Kuprin, who is supreme—if not unique—as a painter of the universal scourge of prostitution, per se; and not as an incidental background for portraits. True, he may not have entirely escaped the strange allure, aforementioned, of the femininity he paints; for femininity—even though fallen, corrupt, abased, is still femininity, one of the miracles of life, to Kuprin, the lover of life. But, even if he may be said to have used too much of the oil of sentimentality in mixing his colours for the portraits, his portraits are subordinate to the background; and there his eye is true and keen, his hand steady and unflinching, his colours and brushwork unimpeachable.

The Bracelet of Garnets: And Other Stories

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The Bracelet Of Garnets: And Other Stories (1917)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Kessinger Publishing

Phelps, William Lyon

Kessinger Pub

Yama; The Pit

Classics

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

V Krymu

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