Research Catalog

Title

Fertility and other stories / Vsevolod Ivanov ; translated by Valentina G. Brougher and Frank J. Miller ; with an introduction by Valentina G. Brougher.

Author

Ivanov, Vsevolod Vi︠a︡cheslavovich, 1895-1963

Publication

Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brougher, Valentina G.
• Miller, Frank J.
• Miller, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1940-

Description

xlvii, 263 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Vsevolod Ivanov was praised in the 1920s as one of the most original and promising young writers to emerge from the Russian Revolution." "Ivanov's personal experiences in Siberia and Central Asia during the Revolution and Civil War, set against a childhood and youth spent wandering through that vast expanse and nourishing his imagination on such Romantic writers as Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne, infuse his writing. Combining traditional elements with the fantastic and the surreal, Ivanov's stories address not only the themes of the Revolution - the dehumanizing effects of famine; the ferment, energy, and uncertainty of the tempestuous times - but also the quotidian: the quiet world of man and nature, and the elemental bond that tied peasants to their native land."--Jacket.

Series Statement

• European classics
• Sources and translations series of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

Uniform Title

• Short stories. Selections. English
• Sources and translations series of the Harriman Institute, Columbia University
• European classics (Evanston, Ill.)

Alternative Title

• Short stories.
• Fertility & other stories

Subject

Ivanov, Vsevolod Vi︠a︡cheslavovich, 1895-1963 > Translations into English

Genre/Form

Translations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Empty Arapia -- The child -- The return of the Buddha -- The field -- The life of Smokotinin -- Night -- Fertility -- The dinner service -- The mansion -- Tannery owner M.D. Lobanov -- The drummers and the magician Mattsukami -- Yegor Yegorych's dream (excerpt from the novel Y).

ISBN

0810115476

LCCN

^^^98009292^

OCLC

• 38199395
• SCSB-10551701

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library