The Greatest Russian Stories of Crime and Suspense
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BJ Harrison
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A collection of the greatest Russian crime and mystery fiction - including stories by Akunin, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Nabokov, Pushkin, and Tolstoy.
Many of the greatest Russian authors, including Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin, produced crime and mystery fiction, a type of literature that was largely suppressed during the Soviet era because it did not glorify the state, but rather, gave significance to individual characters. With the fall of the Soviet Union, mystery writers have become some of the most successful novelists in Russia, and there is a renewed interest in, and appreciation of, the great crime classics of an earlier era.
There have been few policemen, and virtually no private detectives or amateur sleuths, in Russian history worthy of approbation, and in consequence its literature is dramatically different from its Western counterparts. Criminals in Mother Russia tend to be caught or punished by their own consciences or by ghosts, and the notion of a criminal trial as we know it is utterly alien. Nonetheless, the enormous talent and passion of Russian authors has long been justly acclaimed, and the rare forays they made into the loosely defined genre of mystery fiction rank among the world's classics. This volume is the first collection ever devoted entirely to Russian crime fiction.
©2010 Otto Penzler (compilation and introduction); “Table Talk, 1882” copyright 2000 by Boris Akunin, translation copyright 2004 by Anthony Olcott; “Revenge” copyright 1924 by Vladimir Nabokov (P)2021 HighBridge, a division of Recorded BooksWhat listeners say about The Greatest Russian Stories of Crime and Suspense
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- Andy
- 23-05-24
Great Collection or Russian Short Stories
Really enjoyed the various types of crime stories written by Russian/Ukrainian writers. They have a gritty theme to them that Western authors did not possess because they did not endure the same hardships.
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