Ivan Petrovich Belkin left behind a great number of
manuscripts.... Most of them, as Ivan Petrovich told me, were true
stories heard from various people.
First published anonymously in 1830, Alexander Pushkin's "Tales of
Belkin" contains his first prose works. It is comprised of an
introductory note and five linked stories, ostensibly collected by
the scholar Ivan Belkin. The stories center variously around
military figures, the wealthy, and businessmen; this beautiful
novella gives a vivid portrait of nineteenth century Russian
life.
It has become, as well, one of the most beloved books in Russian
literary history, and symbolic of the popularity of the novella
form in Russia. In fact, it has become the namesake for Russia's
most prestigious annual literary prize, the Belkin Prize, given
each year to a book voted by judges to be the best novella of the
year.
It is presented here in a sparkling new translation by Josh
Billings. "Tales of Belkin" also highlights the nature of our
ongoing Art of the Novella Series--that is, that it specializes in
important although albeit lesser-known works by major writers,
often in new tranlsations.
The Art of The Novella Series
Too short to be a novel, too long to be a short story, the novella
is generally unrecognized by academics and publishers. Nonetheless,
it is a form beloved and practiced by literature's greatest
writers. In the Art Of The Novella series, Melville House
celebrates this renegade art form and its practitioners with titles
that are, in many instances, presented in book form for the first
time.
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