Nikolai Leskov: 6 books

Nikolai Semiónovitch Leskov (1831-1895) é conhecido no Brasil sobretudo pelo famoso ensaio de Walter Benjamin sobre o narrador, no qual ocupa posição central. Dele, já se publicou em nosso país a novela Lady Macbeth do distrito de Mtzensk. Nascido em Gorókhovo, perto de Oriol, Leskov conviveu...

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...

Written over the course of Leskov’s career, each story in The Enchanted Wanderer elucidates the very essence of the human condition; themes of love, despair, loneliness, and revenge are explored against the backdrop of nineteenth-century working-class Russia. Leskov deftly layers social satire and...

There plenty of spooky action in this volume of tales. Ghosts, apparitions, entire armies of fairies and fairy queens. The volume opens with Shakespeare's timeless classic 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and continues to get more frightening with haunted castles in Leskov's 'The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle'.

A new translation of the hilarious picaresque about a man with an indomitable spirit   The Enchanted Wanderer is a Russian Candide with a revolutionary edge, a picaresque that features a fast-talking monk named Ivan who is at war, it seems, with every level of society. Working as a carriage man for...

Extrait :  Au cours d’une navigation sur le lac Ladoga, tandis que nous allions de l’île de Konévetz à celle de Valaam,  nous dûmes, pour les besoins du steamer, relâcher dans le port de Koréla. Plusieurs des nôtres descendirent à  terre, curieux de visiter cette dernière...