Without a Language

6 hrs. 31 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Korolenko

Narrator Diomid Vinogradov

Description

On the disc, you’ll find the original and rarely published novella by Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, “Without a Tongue,” written brilliantly and with distinctly Dickensian humor. Scenes of America, especially New York, are presented here through the eyes of his characters. “This book is not about America, but about how America looks at first glance to a simple man from Russia,” Korolenko wrote later. And although he claims that his acquaintance with America was brief and insufficient, sketches of New York from a hundred years ago—life, problems, the adventures of emigrants from Russia, ordinary peasants and poor Jews—can be recognized in this novella, full of fascinating details…