Scenes from the Bathhouse: And Other Stories of Communist Russia (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) - Softcover

Mikhail Zoshchenko

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0472060708 ISBN 13: 9780472060702

Publisher: University of Michigan Press, 1962

Synopsis

These uproariously funny stories of Russia's leading but outlawed humorist give a behind-the-scenes look at daily life in the Soviet Union-a country of housing shortages and consumers' goods shortages, of inefficiency and bad roads, of bureaucracy and red tape, whose heroes are often fools, knaves, charlatans, fakers, poseurs.

About this title

About the Author:

Mikhail Zoshchenko (1895-1958), expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers in 1946 and banned from the Russian press as a "literary tramp," "a brainless and pornographic scribbler," is one of the great satirists of the twentieth century. Candid, spontaneous, immediate, his on-the-spot sketches reveal the Chaplinesque world of the Soviet little man who never wins, victim of himself, of history, of nature, or of all three.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Publication date: 1962
• ISBN 10: 0472060708
• ISBN 13: 9780472060702
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 248
• Editor: Marc Slonim