City Folk and Country Folk by Sofia Khvoshchinskaya
An unsung gem of nineteenth-century Russian literature, City Folk and Country Folk is a satire of Russias aristocratic and pseudo-intellectual elites in the 1860s. Sofia Khvoshchinskaya, writing under a male pseudonym, centers her story on a common-sense, hardworking noblewoman and her self-assured daughter living on their small rural estate.
A single man of property comes to a country village-unsettling young and older ladiesThe village is in Russia, soon after the emancipation of the serfs; Ovcharov is a hypochondriac intellectual. "A comical people," he reflects at one point, and the women and the reader must agree. Admirers of Jane Austen will delight in this charming satire. -- Rachel Brownstein, The Graduate Center at CUNY
Sofia Khvoshchinskaya (1824-1865), writer, translator, and painter, published fiction and social commentary in Russia's most influential journals. She and her sister Nadezhda wrote to support their family, struggling members of the nobility, alternating long stretches of toil in their native Ryazan Province with visits to Russia's capitals, where they interacted with some of the country's leading intellectuals. Nora Seligman Favorov is a translator of Russian literature, poetry, and history.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231183031 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231183038 |
| Title | City Folk and Country Folk |
| Author | Sofia Khvoshchinskaya |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2017-08-15 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Prizes | Winner of Best Literary Translation into English, American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages 2018 |
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