Twentieth-Century Russian Reader: Revised and Updated Edition (Viking Portable Library)

For Most Of The Twentieth Century Russia Existed Under Some Form Of Dictatorship--with The Paradoxical Effect That In Russia Literature Continued To Matter As It Did In Few Other Countries. The Writers Of Modern Russia Have Possessed The Power To Enrage Tyrants, To Inspire Allegiance And Devotion In Their Readers, And To Speak For The Suffocating Conscience Of Their Motherland, Even When They Are Addressing The Least Political Of Issues. At Their Best, Their Writing Is Informed By The Exhilarated Awareness Of That Potential--and The Responsibility That Goes With It. Alyosha The Pot / Leo Tolstoy. -- The Bishop / Anton Chekhov. -- Recollections Of Leo Tolstoy / Maxim Gorky. -- Light Breathing / Ivan Bunin. -- Time / Nadezhda Teffi. -- A Girl Was Singing ; The Stranger / Alexander Blok. -- From Petersburg / Andrei Bely. -- The Cave / Evgeni Zamyatin. -- Nikolai / Velimir Khlebenikov. -- Three Things In This World He Loved ; We're No Good At Saying Good-bye ; Dante ; When A Man Dies ; Courage / Anna Akhamatova. -- The Potudan River / Andrei Platonov. -- Varykino (from Dr. Zhivago) ; Hamlet (from Dr. Zhivago) ; March (from Dr. Zhivago) / Boris Pasternak. -- Theodosia ; The Admiralty ; The Thread Of Gold Cordial Flowed ; Leningrad ; O Lord, Help Me To Live Through This Night ; The Last Supper / Osip Mandelstam. -- From The Master And Margarita / Mikhail Bulgakov. -- My First Goose ; How Was It Don In Odessa ; My First Fee / Isaac Babel. -- Bees And People ; From Before Sunrise / Mikhail Zoschenko. -- Envy / Yuri Olesha. -- The Return Of Chorb ; The Visit To The Museum / Vladimir Nabokov. -- A May Night (from Hope Against Hope) ; Last Letter (from Hope Abandoned) / Nadezhda Mandelstam. -- Anecdotes About Pushkin's Life ; The Connection / Daniil Kharms. -- Prosthetic Appliances (from Kolyma Tales) ; A Child's Drawings (from Kolyma Tales) ; Lend-lease (from Kolyma Tales) / Varlam Shalamov. -- Matryona's Home / Alexander Solzhenitsyn. -- Pkhentz / Andrei Sinyavsky. -- Adam And Eve / Yuro Kazakov. -- From Faithful Ruslan / Georgi Vladimov. -- A Circle Of Friends / Vladimir Voinovich. -- From A School For Fools / Sasha Sokolov. Edited With An Introduction And Notes By Clarence Brown.