Stories

5 hrs. 41 min.

Humor & Satire

Language Russian

Author Mikhail Zoshchenko

Narrators Alexander Kotov, Anatoly Menshchikov, Vladislav Kopp

Narrator Alexander Kotov

Narrator Anatoly Menshchikov

Narrator Vladislav Kopp

Description

Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894–1958) became one of the most popular writers by the mid-1920s. His stories “The Bathhouse,” “The Aristocrat,” “A Case History,” and others—stories that he often read himself before numerous audiences—were known and beloved in all strata of society. In a letter to Zoshchenko, M. Gorky noted: “I don’t know of anyone in literature who has such a combination of irony and lyricism.”

Chukovsky believed that at the center of Zoshchenko’s work lies the fight against callousness in human relationships; that Zoshchenko introduced into literature “a new, not yet fully formed, but triumphantly spreading throughout the country non-literary speech—and began to use it freely as if it were his own speech.”

Contents:

A Story about an Old Fool.
Marriage Is Not a Misfortune, If You Don’t End Up in Trouble.
A Small Incident from Personal Life.
A Wedding Incident.
A Funny Adventure.
The Aristocrat.
A Historical Story.
An Actor.
The Bathhouse.
A Cup.
Nervous People.
A Powerful Remedy.
A Barrel.
A Film Drama.
The Pleasures of Culture.
Lemonade.
A Case History.
Deceit.
Failures.