From: danny@cs.su.oz.au (Danny Yee)
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 1995 21:07:28 +1000
Subject: Book Review - The Dragon

     title: The Dragon
          : Fifteen Stories
        by: Yevgeny Zamyatin
      from: the Russian [Mirra Ginsburg]
 publisher: University of Chicago Press 1976
  subjects: short fiction
     other: 291 pages, US$9.95

Zamyatin is best known for the brilliant dystopian novel _We_, one of
the great classics of science fiction.  _The Dragon_ is a collection of
fifteen of his short stories (including a 67 page novella) published
between 1918 and 1935.  It also includes an introduction by the
translator, Mirra Ginsburg, and the text of the letter Zamyatin wrote
to Stalin in which he asked to be allowed to "go abroad ... with the
right to return as soon as it becomes possible in our country to serve
great ideas without cringing before little men".  The stories are all
tales of everyday life before, during and after the revolution, but
are rather hard to classify further -- "realist fairy tales", perhaps.
In any case _The Dragon_ is a collection of literary importance as
well as being a great read; worth going out of your way for.

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%T	The Dragon
%S	Fifteen Stories
%A	Yevgeny Zamyatin
%F	Mirra Ginsburg
%L	Russian
%I	University of Chicago Press
%C	Chicago
%D	1976
%O	paperback
%G	ISBN 0-226-97868-0
%P	xviii,291pp
%K	short fiction, Russia

Danny Yee (danny@cs.su.oz.au)
3 January 1995

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