 INTRODUCTION  — 1 —  INTRODUCTION  Cultural Syllabus Series editor Mark Lipovetsky (University of Colorado - Boulder) — 2 — 50 W R I T E AN ANTHOLOGY OF 20th CENTURRY RUSSIAN SHORT S STORIES Selected, with an Introduction, by Mark Lipovetsky and Valentina Brougher Translated and Annotated by Valentina Brougher and Frank Miller with Mark Lipovetsky Boston 2011  INTRODUCTION  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 50 writers : an anthology of 20th century Russian short stories / selected, with an introduction, by Mark Lipovetsky and Valentina Brougher ; translated and annotated by Valentina Brougher and Frank Miller, with Mark Lipovetsky. p. cm. -- (Cultural syllabus) ISBN 978-1-936235-14-8 (alk. paper) -- ISBN 978-1-936235-22-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Short stories, Russian--Translations into English. 2. Russian fi ction-- 20th century--Translations into English. I. Lipovetskii, M. N. (Mark Naumovich) II. Brougher, Valentina G. III. Miller, Frank J. (Frank Joseph), 1940- IV. Title: Fifty writers. PG3286.A26 2011 891.73'010804--dc22 2010054411 Th e publication of this book is supported by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation. (translation program TRANSCRIPT). Copyright © 2011 Academic Studies Press All rights reserved ISBN 978-1-936235-14-8 (hardback) ISBN 978-1-936235-22-3 (paperback) Cover design by Ivan Grave Book interior design by Adell Medovoy Published by Academic Studies Press in 2011 28 Montfern Avenue Brighton, MA 02135, USA [email protected] www.academicstudiespress.com — 4 —  INTRODUCTION  To the memory of Walter and Anna (nee Zamorska) Golondzowski John F. and Kathryn Brougher and Naum Lazarevich Leiderman — 5 —  INTRODUCTION  — 6 —  INTRODUCTION  TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments 13 Glossary 18 Introduction 21 1. LEONID ANDREYEV Once Upon a Time 43 2. FYODOR SOLOGUB Th e Invoker of the Beast 65 3. ALEKSANDR KUPRIN Gambrinus 73 4. ALEKSEI REMIZOV Th e Little Devil 100 5. ELENA GURO Th us Life Passes 131 6. ARKADY AVERCHENKO Four People 145 Scenes from the Life of the Worker Pantelei Grymzin 152 7. NADEZHDA TEFFI Black Iris 154 8. MIKHAIL BULGAKOV Th e Red Crown 158 9. MIKHAIL ZOSHCHENKO Black Magic 165 Th e Female Fish 177 — 7 —  INTRODUCTION  10. ISAAC BABEL Gedali 185 Th e Rabbi 188 Th e Rabbi’s Son 190 11. MIKHAIL SHOLOKHOV Family Man 193 12. LEV LUNTS Outgoing Paper No 27 200 13. VSEVOLOD IVANOV Th e Gardener of the Emir of Bukhara 209 14. ALEKSEI TOLSTOY Th e Viper 231 15. EVGENY ZAMYATIN Th e Flood 269 16. ANDREI PLATONOV Doubting Makar 297 17. DANIIL KHARMS Blue Notebook Number 10 315 Old Women Tumbling Out 315 Kushakov the Carpenter 316 A Dream 317 Th e Start of a Very Nice Summer Day 318 Th e Lynching 318 18. VLADIMIR NABOKOV Lake, Cloud, Tower 320 19. SIGIZMUND KRZHIZHANOVSKY Th e Smoky Glass Goblet 328 — 8 —  INTRODUCTION  20. IVAN BUNIN Tanya 333 21. ANDREI SINYAVSKY Th e Tenants 351 22. VARLAM SHALAMOV Eulogy 365 23. FRIDRIKH GORENSHTEIN Th e House with a Turret 380 24. VASILY AKSYONOV “Victory” 405 25. YULI DANIEL Hands 412 26. KONSTANTIN VOROBYOV A German in Felt Boots 417 27. FAZIL ISKANDER My Uncle of the Highest Principles 430 28. VASILY SHUKSHIN Chudik 445 I Believe! 455 29. VLADIMIR TENDRYAKOV Bread for a Dog 466 30. YURY KAZAKOV You Cried Bitterly in Your Sleep 487 31. YURY DOMBROVSKY Little Arm, Leg, Cucumber . . . 505 — 9 —  INTRODUCTION  32. SERGEI DOVLATOV My Older Cousin 523 33. BULAT OKUDZHAVA Girl of My Dreams 542 34. TATIANA TOLSTAYA Th e Fakir 555 35. VIKTOR EROFEYEV Galoshes 576 36. VLADIMIR MAKANIN Surrealism in a Proletarian District 585 37. VLADIMIR SOROKIN Passing Th rough 604 38. ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Th e Young 611 39. LEONID YUZEFOVICH Butterfl y. 1987 624 40. OLEG ERMAKOV Th e Last War Story 646 41. VIKTOR PELEVIN A Short History of Paint-ball in Moscow 676 42. LYUDMILA ULITSKAYA Th e Queen of Spades 694 43. YURY BUIDA More and More Angels 723 Th e Samurai’s Dream 726 — 10 —