Research Catalog

Title

Rock, paper, scissors : and other stories / Maxim Osipov ; translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson ; edited by Boris Dralyuk ; preface by Svetlana Alexievich.

Author

Osipov, Maksim

Publication

• New York, NY : New York Review Books, [2019]
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Dralyuk, Boris
• Fleming, Alex (Translator)
• Jackson, Anne Marie

Description

viii, 295 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Maxim Osipov, who lives and practices medicine in a town ninety miles outside Moscow, is one of Russia?s best contemporary writers. In the tradition of Anton Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, he draws on his experiences in medicine to write stories of great subtlety and striking insight. Osipov?s fiction presents a nuanced, collage-like portrait of life in provincial Russia?its tragedies, frustrations, and moments of humble beauty and inspiration. The twelve stories in this volume depict doctors, actors, screenwriters, teachers, entrepreneurs, local political bosses, and common criminals whose paths intersect in unpredictable yet entirely natural ways: in sickrooms, classrooms, administrative offices and on trains and in planes. Their encounters lead to disasters, major and minor epiphanies, and?on occasion?the promise of redemption.

Series Statement

New York Review books classics

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• New York Review Books classics.

Alternative Title

Short stories.

Subject

• Osipov, Maksim > Translations into English
• FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

Genre/Form

• Translations.
• Short stories.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The cry of the domestic fowl : in lieu of a foreword -- Moscow-Petrozavodsk -- The gypsy -- Rock, paper, scissors -- Renaissance man -- The waves of the sea -- Polish friend -- The mill -- After eternity : the notes of a literary director -- On the banks of the spree -- Good people -- Objects in mirror.

Call Number

JFD 19-546

ISBN

• 9781681373324
• 1681373327

LCCN

2018036766

OCLC

1045202411

Author

Osipov, Maksim, author.

Title

Rock, paper, scissors : and other stories / Maxim Osipov ; translated from the Russian by Boris Dralyuk, Alex Fleming and Anne Marie Jackson ; edited by Boris Dralyuk ; preface by Svetlana Alexievich.

Publisher

New York, NY : New York Review Books, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Review books classics

New York Review Books classics.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Dralyuk, Boris, editor, translator.

Fleming, Alex (Translator), translator.

Jackson, Anne Marie, translator.

Other Form:

Online version: Osipov, Maksim, author. Rock, paper, scissors and other stories New York : New York Review Books, 2019 9781681373331 (DLC) 2018046038

Research Call Number

JFD 19-546