Boris Evseev’s stories are an unmistakable phenomenon in today’s Russian prose. In them you’ll find everything that makes literature truly artistic and interesting: a flexible and, as it were, “embodied” language, a dynamic plot, a solid documentary foundation, deep penetration into the very essence of characters. The splendor and misery of modern Russia, philosophers from the people and tender-hearted gangsters, owners of shops “of blessed beggars” and quirky residents of the Moscow suburbs—these are the heroes creating a new narrative atmosphere in Evseev’s “Russian caprichcios.”
Contents:
- Meat is in the price!
Ivan Raskoryak rode to the Ptichka
A Reile’s island
Russian caprichcio
Agatha Hrestik
Takeoff
A Berlin story
The poor will I enter; the rich will I exit
Meat is in the price!
- Letters
Beggar’s shop
Sukholyub
Line
Macedonian wine
Kurdupel
Chukago
Letters
Two duduks
- Nenchuy-wind
Quick denouement
Krasnogorsk
Kutum
Sergiev forest
Chugunok hurries to war
Khututitut
Tambov’s monkey
Nenchuy-wind