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- From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny Yee)
- Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 21:07:28 +1000
- Subject: Book Review - The Dragon
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- title: The Dragon
- : Fifteen Stories
- by: Yevgeny Zamyatin
- from: the Russian [Mirra Ginsburg]
- publisher: University of Chicago Press 1976
- subjects: short fiction
- other: 291 pages, US$9.95
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- Zamyatin is best known for the brilliant dystopian novel _We_, one of
- the great classics of science fiction. _The Dragon_ is a collection of
- fifteen of his short stories (including a 67 page novella) published
- between 1918 and 1935. It also includes an introduction by the
- translator, Mirra Ginsburg, and the text of the letter Zamyatin wrote
- to Stalin in which he asked to be allowed to "go abroad ... with the
- right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve
- great ideas without cringing before little men". The stories are all
- tales of everyday life before, during and after the revolution, but
- are rather hard to classify further -- "realist fairy tales", perhaps.
- In any case _The Dragon_ is a collection of literary importance as
- well as being a great read; worth going out of your way for.
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- %T The Dragon
- %S Fifteen Stories
- %A Yevgeny Zamyatin
- %F Mirra Ginsburg
- %L Russian
- %I University of Chicago Press
- %C Chicago
- %D 1976
- %O paperback
- %G ISBN 0-226-97868-0
- %P xviii,291pp
- %K short fiction, Russia
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- Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
- 3 January 1995
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