Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Modern Russian Classics: Silence, by L. N. Andreyev; The White Dog, by Feodor Sologub; The Doctor, by Michael Artzibashev; A Father, by Anton Tchekov; Her Lover, by Maxim Gorky
The present collection Of Russian tales, comprising five Of the best known stories in modern Russian literature, is useful not only as a samme Of the Slavic excellency in this peculiarly contemporary form, nor yet merely as a study in the technique Of the tale, a study, by the way, which in these days has grown to the proportions Of a literary disease, and which may be explained by the fact that creativeness cannot be taught, while some Of its external methods may be imitated. One Of the attributes, indeed, Of Russian fiction, -a characteristic that raises it far above the level Of our general magazine mediocrity, - is that it subordinates technique to content, or even ignores the more finnicky aspects Of form. I do not say that such an attitude is commendable, nor is it a requisite for a closer attention to the vital matter Of the tale. In comparison with our perk native writers, however, who sometimes seem to have mastered the Secret of saying nothing extremely well, I think the so-called carelessness Of more than one Russian writer far superior, even as technique. For he is getting some where in the best way he knows how, not deftly avoiding the approach to thought.
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