Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Nikolai Leskov, Robert; Donald Chandler; Rayfield, Donald Rayfield , Donald Rayfield

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The New York Review of Books, Inc
13 January 2021

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.

A new collection of the renowned Russian writer's best short work, including a masterful translation of the famous title story.

Nikolai Leskov is the strangest of the great Russian writers of the nineteenth century. His work is closer to the oral traditions of narrative than that of his contemporaries, and served as the inspiration for Walter Benjamin's great essay ""The Storyteller,"" in which Benjamin contrasts the plotty machinations of the modern novel with the strange, melancholy, but also worldly-wise yarns of an older, slower era that Leskov remained in touch with. The title story is a tale of illicit love and multiple murder that could easily find its way into a Scottish ballad and did go on to become the most popular of Dmitri Shostakovich's operas. The other stories, all but one newly translated, present the most focused and finely rendered collection of this indispensable writer currently available in English.

By: Nikolai Leskov, Robert; Donald Chandler; Rayfield
Introduction by: Donald Rayfield
Translated by: Donald Rayfield
Imprint: The New York Review of Books, Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm,
ISBN: 9781681374901
ISBN 10: 1681374900
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 13 January 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Magarshack's translations include works by Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, and Pushkin. His translation of The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky is available as a Modern Library Paperback Classic. V. S. Pritchett (1900-1996) was a prolific English writer, essayist, critic, novelist, and journalist.

Reviews for Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Certainly what impresses in Leskov is his all-seeing but unjudging eye. . . . Leskov is emphatically unlike either Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, and bears only passing comparison with Turgenev. Rather, he emerges as a literary missing link, a writer who brings the metafictional playfulness of Sterne into the Russian tradition, melding this sophistication with his embrace of the folk tale and vernacular of the common people. Then, vitally, there is his legacy to Chekhov: a moral benevolence and humor-filled acceptance of the full range of humanity. -Claire Messud, The New York Times Nikolai Leskov's absence from classic Russian literature lists must end now! If you like Russian, and you like funny, you will love Leskov. -Gary Shteyngart Stories as strong as fables and crazy as life. -Alice Munro