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Short Story Writers

1.Garshin, Kuprin, Sologub and other short story writers.

aVsevolod Mikhaylovich Garshin, 1855-1888.
Garshin was a great writer, doing pitifully wonderful things under such stress as makes us love him for his brave, losing fight against black foes within and without.—Lippincott's Magazine.
(1) His life.
(2) His short stories.

bAlexander Ivanovich Kuprin, 1870-
He is an exquisite story-teller, profound and touching . . . [who] paints life as it appears to him.—Serge Persky.
(1) His novels and stories.

cFeodor Sologub, pseud. (Feoder Teternikov).
Sologub is the first of Russian stylists. . . . He gives the sense of atmosphere with so few and so simple strokes.—John Cournos.
(1) His work as a writer.

dOther short story writers.

Recommended Reading

Four days. V. M. Garshin. In Lippincott's Magazine. 91: 498-507. April '13.

An autobiographical story of singular penetration.—Lippincott's Magazine.

How the lizard lost its tail. V. M. Garshin.

In Wiener. Anthology of Russian literature, v. 2, p. 443-8 (with title "That which was not").
Current Opinion. 60:53-4. Jan. '16.

The old man and the hoop. F. Sologub. In Current Opinion. 59:198-9. Sept. '15.