- 5.25 x 8.0.
- 272pp.
- Paper
- 1961
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- 978-0-472-06070-2
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These uproariously funny stories of Russia's leading but outlawed humorist give a behind-the-scenes look at daily life in the Soviet Union—a country of housing shortages and consumers' goods shortages, of inefficiency and bad roads, of bureaucracy and red tape, whose heroes are often fools, knaves, charlatans, fakers, poseurs.
Contents
Victoria Kazimirovna 1
A Metropolitan Deal 12
Confession 15
What Good Are Relatives? 17
The Aristocrat 20
The Bathhouse 23
The Patient 26
Poverty 29
The Overshoe 32
The Economy Campaign 35
The Actor 37
Rachis [Paris] 40
The Crisis 42
Kitten and People 45
The Electrician 47
The Receipt 49
M. P. Siniagin 52
A Weak Container 74
Bathhouse and People 78
A Romantic Tale 82
Poor Liza 88
An Amusing Adventure 93
Liaisons Dangereuses 101
Personal Life 105
My Professions 109
Love 118
On Pushkin's Anniversary 139
Houses and People 146
Rose-Marie 149
The Story of My Illness 153
A Happy Game 158
A Last Unpleasantness 162
An Instructive Story 166
Kocherga (The Poker) 169
The Photograph 173
The Adventures of An Ape 177
An Extraordinary Event 184
In the Bathhouse 190
Before the Sun Rises: A Novella 199