Moscow Tales

Edited by Helen H. Constantine
Sasha S. Dugdale

City Tales

A unique collection of short stories set exclusively in Moscow
Provides new translations of classic short stories
Includes tales of Moscow that are translated into English for the first time

Moscow Tales

Edited by Helen H. Constantine
Sasha S. Dugdale

Description

Presenting stories which represent each layer of the city of Moscow, from the centre of power to the outer rings of desolate estates and tumbledown shacks, this fascinating collection offers a lively and varied portrait in fiction of Russia's mysterious capital city. The collection includes works by Russian authors ranging from Anton Chekhov and Yuri Koval to Larisa Miller and Marina Boroditskaia, collating nineteeth- and twentieth-century tales, as well those written by contemporary authors. The stories are intriguingly varied --an account of life in the city's infamous high security prison, a tale of a lady with a supernatural gift for repairing household devices, the story of another pitiful lost dog who nearly joins the Moscow Circus -- and together they shed light on the changing nature of Moscow society across the centuries.

The next instalment in a series of successful translated anthologies of stories set in and around a particular European City. Moscow Tales combines two genres, travel writing and literary fiction and provides an insight into the lives of those who live in Moscow or have written about it.

Moscow Tales

Edited by Helen H. Constantine
Sasha S. Dugdale

City Tales

General Introduction
Introduction
Musa, Ivan Bunin
A Couple in December, Yurii Kazakov
Kashtanka, Anton Chekhov
Red Gates, Yurii Koval
Transition, Tat'yana Shchepkina-Kupernik
Poor Liza, Nikolai Karamzin
Scar, Evgenii Grishkovets
Lady with a Little Dog, Anton Chekhov
Moscow, Igor Sutyagin
From Lefortovo to Khamovniki, Vladimir Gilyarovskii
My Pushkin, Marina Tsvetaeva
Very Proper Nouns, Marina Boroditskaia
Clean Monday, Ivan Shmelyov
Tsar or PrinceL, Larisa Miller
Underground Sea, Maria Galina

Moscow Tales

Edited by Helen H. Constantine
Sasha S. Dugdale

City Tales

Author Information

Helen Constantine

Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published three volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales, French Tales, and Paris Metro Tales and is currently editing a series of 'City Tales' for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Theophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin and The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac for OUP. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.

Sasha Dugdale is a poet and translator. She has published three collections of her own poetry -- the most recent of these is Red House (Carcanet / OxfordPoets 2011) -- and two collections of Russian poetry in translation. She works with the Royal Court Theatre in London as an adviser on Russian New Writing and has translated over thirty plays from Russian. She lived in Moscow for five years in the 1990s and frequently returns there. She is currently editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation

Contributors:

Ivan Bunin
Yurii Kazakov
Anton Chekhov
Yurii Koval
Tat'yana Shchepkina-Kupernik
Nikolai Karamzin
Evgenii Grishkovets
Anton Chekhov
Igor Sutyagin
Vladimir Gilyarovskii
Marina Tsvetaeva
Marina Boroditskaia
Ivan Shmelyov
Larisa Miller
Maria Galina

Moscow Tales

Edited by Helen H. Constantine
Sasha S. Dugdale

City Tales

From Our Blog

Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik, Anton Chekhov, and Moscow Tales

By Sasha Dugdale Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik was a friend of the Chekhov family and a frequent visitor to Melikhovo, Anton Chekhov's house just outside Moscow.

Posted on December 9, 2013

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