Günter Dalitz Bücher

In einer russischen Provinzstadt gründet der Student Petr Stepan Verchovenskij, ein ehrgeiziger Fanatiker, der eine Terrorherrschaft über ganz Russland anstrebt, ein revolutionäres Fünferkomitee. Um die Mitglieder aneinander zu ketten, treibt er sie in eine gemeinsame Schuld. In einer kalten Herbstnacht um das Jahr 1870 bringen sie einen eigenwilligen Mitstreiter wegen potentiellen Verrats ums Leben. Sorgfältig beleuchtet Dostojewski die gesellschaftlichen Hintergründe, auf denen sich die Anarchie zu einem Faszinosum entwickeln konnte

Five great stories from one of the most quintessentially Russian of writers, Nikolai Leskov. In the best of Leskov's stories, as in almost no others apart from those of Gogol, we can hear the voice of nineteenth-century Russia. An outsider by birth and instinct, Leskov is one of the most undeservedly neglected figures in Russian literature. He combined a profoundly religious spirit with a fascination for crime, an occasionally lurid imagination and a great love for the Russian vernacular. This volume includes five of his greatest stories, including the masterful Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk. Nikolai Semyonovich Leskov was born in 1831 in Gorokhovo, Oryol Province and was orphaned early. In 1860 he became a journalist and moved to Petersburg where he published his first story. He subsequently wrote a number of folk legends and Christmas tales, along with a few anti-nihilistic novels which resulted in isolation from the literary circles of his day. He died in 1895. David McDuff is a translator of Russian and Nordic literature. His translations of nineteenth and twentieth century Russian prose classics (including works by Dostoyevsky,Tolstoy, Bely and Babel) are published by Penguin.