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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
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100			_aSaltykov-Shchedrin, Mikhail
245			_aFOOLSBURG _b: History of Town
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260			_aNew York _bVintage Books _c2024
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500			_aTranslated from Russian by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. The award-winning translators bring us a new translation of an 1870 comic novel by Russia’s greatest satirist—whose mockery of Russian autocracy is as relevant as ever. “Pevear and Volokhonsky [are the] reigning translators of Russian literature. . . . In Russia, The History of a Town is read in schools and regarded as a masterpiece of 19th-century satire. . . . [This new translation] is an argument for the book’s Swiftian wit and its relevance to Russia and the United States today.” —The New York Times A major classic in Russia since its publication, Foolsburg is the farcical chronicle of a fictional town and its hapless inhabitants as they passively endure the violence and lunacy of their rulers. The succession of brutal mayors of the town include such surreal extremes as a man with a music box instead of a brain and one so tall that he snaps in half during a windstorm. Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin marries biting satire reminiscent of Jonathan Swift with the fantastical absurdity of Nikolai Gogol, imbued throughout with his own brand of playful wordplay. The award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have produced the first translation of this work into English that successfully captures its zany humor and enduring relevance.
650			_aRussian fiction
650			_aNovel
700			_aRichard Pevear (tr.) _aLarissa Volokhonsky (tr.)
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999			_c193659 _d193659