Nikolaj S. Leskov Ordine dei libri
Nikolai Leskov fu un romanziere russo celebrato per il suo stile di scrittura unico e i suoi innovativi esperimenti formali. Catturò magistralmente le sfumature della società russa contemporanea, spesso attraverso forme letterarie più brevi, guadagnandosi l'alta stima di giganti letterari come Tolstoj e Čechov. L'opera di Leskov si distingue per la sua profonda visione dell'anima russa e il suo magistrale uso del linguaggio. Le sue acute osservazioni sui dialetti e sulle usanze popolari infondevano alla sua inconfondibile voce narrativa personaggi vivaci e sviluppi della trama inaspettati.
- 1994
- 1974
Die Lady Macbeth und andere Erzählungen
- 843pagine
- 30 ore di lettura
Five great stories from one of the most quintessentially Russian of writers, Nikolai Leskov. In the best of Leskov's stories, as in almost no others apart from those of Gogol, we can hear the voice of nineteenth-century Russia. An outsider by birth and instinct, Leskov is one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian literature. He combined a profoundly religious spirit with a fascination for crime, an occasionally lurid imagination and a great love for the Russian vernacular. This volume includes five of his greatest stories, including the masterful Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was born in 1831 in Gorokhovo, Oryol Province and was orphaned early. In 1860 he became a journalist and moved to Petersburg where he published his first story. He subsequently wrote a number of folk legends and Christmas tales, along with a few anti-nihilistic novels which resulted in isolation from the literary circles of his day. He died in 1895. David McDuff is a translator of Russian and Nordic literature. His translations of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian prose classics (including works by Dostoyevsky,Tolstoy, Bely and Babel) are published by Penguin.
- 1962
