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4.0 out of 5 stars
Good intermediate Russian reading,
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This review is from: Twelve Stories (Selected and Annotated for English Speaking Students) (Paperback)
This books consists of twelve relatively short (three to five pages, roughly) stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, a Soviet satirist. His style reminds me a little of Mark Twain's short stories - deadpan but exaggerated. These stories describe life in communal apartments and other aspects of Soviet life in a humorous fashion -- for example, the squabbles of communal apartment dwellers over the electric bill. The simplicity of the stories (there is not a lot of internal thought processes described, and there is a lot of dialogue) make it fairly easy for a low-intermediate student to read and enjoy, with the help of the annotations. One warning - Zoshchenko uses a lot of slang terminology which is likely to be unfamiliar to such readers, and can take a little unraveling.
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Twelve Stories (Selected and Annotated for English Speaking Students) by Mikhail Zoshchenko (Paperback - June 1, 1990)
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