Olesya: Stories and Novellas

7 hrs. 14 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Alexander Kuprin

Narrator Alexander Kovrizhnykh

Description

The prose of Alexander Ivanovich Kuprin is distinguished by deep psychologism, attention to details, and compelling plots that teach listeners compassion and responsiveness.

This audiobook includes two stories and two novellas by the classic of Russian literature Alexander Kuprin (1870–1930). It is named after the novella that, as the author admitted, was one of his favorite works.

One of the strangest texts of its time, “Olesya” is a blend of a love-and-everyday-life novella in the spirit of Turgenev with a demonological fairy tale: a city hero entirely belonging to civilization falls in love with Olesya—a girl, the granddaughter of a Polesie witch, who also has magical abilities. The literature of neo-romanticism flees pragmatism; “Olesya” invites pragmatism on an excursion into the secluded regions of Slavic paganism.

Of course, nothing good awaits the heroes.