Ivan Efremov (1908–1972), elstara sovetia sciencisto kaj verkisto, estas klasikulo de du ĝenroj — de la sciencfikcia kaj de la historia beletro.
Lia lasta romano «Tais el Ateno» baziĝas sur la historia epizodo, konata laŭ...
The Death of Vazir-Mukhtar, a novel by Yury Tynyanov, a leading figure of the Russian formalist school, describes the final year in the life of Alexander Griboedov, the author of the comedy Woe from Wit. As ambassador to Persia, Griboedov was...
This collection of Platonov’s short fiction brings together seven works drawn from the whole of his career. It includes the harrowing novella Dzahn (“Soul”), in which a young man returns to his Asian birthplace to find his people deprived not...
Praised by The New York Times Book Review as “an Abkhazian Mark Twain,” Fazil Iskander was one of the most acclaimed writers in the Soviet Union — and also one of the funniest.The Goatibex Constellation is the story of a young newspaperman who...