Russian 0325: Russian Short Story in Context

Current readings

• Victor Pelevin. "Vera Pavlovna's Ninth Dream." A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia and Other Stories. Trans. Andrew Bromfield. New York: New Directions, 1998.
• Victor Pelevin. "Mid-Game." The Blue Lantern and Other Stories. Trans. Andrew Bromfield. New York: New Directions, 1996.
• Evgeny Popov, "The Reservoir." Merry-Making in Old Russia and Other Stories. Trans. Robert Porter. Evanston, Northwestern UP, 1997.
• Evgeny Popov, "Merry-Making in Old Russia." Merry-Making in Old Russia and Other Stories. Trans. Robert Porter. Evanston, Northwestern UP, 1997.
• Evgeny Popov, "Mistakes of Youth," "No Cinema." Merry-Making in Old Russia and Other Stories. Trans. Robert Porter. Evanston, Northwestern UP, 1997.
• Vladimir Sorokin. "A Business Proposition." Glas: New Russian Writing. Volume 2: Soviet Grotesque. Moscow: Glas.
• Vladimir Sorokin. "Start of the Season." Trans. Sally Laird. Index on Censorship. vol. 15, no. 9.
• Tatyana Tolstaya, "The Poet and the Muse." White Walls: Collected Stories. New York: New York Review Books, 2007.
• Liudmila Petrushevskaya. "Our Circle." Immortal Love. Trans. Sally Laird. London, Virago Press, 1995.
• Sergei Dovlatov, "Forward." The Suitcase. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
• Mikhail Sholokhov, "The Fate of a Man." Collected Works in Eight Volumes. vol. 8. Trans. Robert Daglish. Moscow: Raduga, 1984.
• Andrei Platonov, "The Homeland of Electricity." The Return and Other Stories. Trans. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler and Angela Livingstone. London: Harvill, 1999.
• Mikhail Bulgakov, "The Steel Windpipe." Medical Progress and Social Reality: A Reader in Nineteenth-Century Medicine and Literature. Ed. Lilian R. Furst. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000.
• Isaak Babel, "How Things Were Done in Odessa." The Complete Works of Isaac Babel. Ed. Nathalie Babel. Trans. Peter Constantine. New York: Norton, 2002.
• Vladimir Nabokov, "The Return of Chorb." Details of a Sunset and Other Stories. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976.
• Ivan Bunin, "Sunstroke." Night of Denial: Stories and Novellas. Trans. Robert Bowie. Evanston, Northwestern UP, 2006.
• Maxim Gorky, "Old Izergil." M. Gorky Selected Stories. Moscow: Progress, 1981.
• Maxim Gorky, "Makar Chudra." M. Gorky Selected Stories. Moscow: Progress, 1981.
• Maxim Gorky, "Twenty-Six Men and A Girl." The Collected Short Stories of Maxim Gorky. Ed. Avram Yarmolinsky and Moura Budberg. Intro. Frederic Ewen. Secaucus, NJ: Citadel Press, 1988.
• Anton Chekhov, "The Darling." The Darling & Other Stories. Translated by Constance Garnett. New York: Ecco Press, 1984.
• Anton Chekhov, "Gooseberries." About Love and Other Stories. Translated and Introduced by Rosamund Bartlett. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
• Anton Chekhov, "The Lady With the Little Dog." About Love and Other Stories. Translated and Introduced by Rosamund Bartlett. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004.
• Anton Chekhov, "Heartache." The Portable Chekhov. Edited and with an Introduction by Avrahm Yarmolinsky. New York: Viking, 1968.
• Fyodor Dostoevsky, "The Dream of a Ridiculous Man." The Eternal Husband and Other Stories. Trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Bantam, 1997.
• Leo Tolstoy, "Prisoner of the Caucasus." Master and Man and Other Stories. New York: Penguin Books, 2005.
• Ivan Turgenev, "Bezhin Meadow." Nicholas Rzhevsky, ed. An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture.Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
• Nikolai Gogol, "The Nose." The Complete Tales of Nikolai Gogol, vol 2. Edited by Leonard J. Kent. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1985.
• Mikhail Lermontov, "Taman." Nicholas Rzhevsky, ed. An Anthology of Russian Literature from Earliest Writings to Modern Fiction: Introduction to a Culture.Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996.
• Alexander Pushkin, Tales of Belkin and Other Prose Writings. London: Penguin, 1998.
• Nikolai Karamzin, "Poor Liza." Selected Prose of N.M. Karamzin. Trans. and Intro. Henry M. Nebel. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1969.