I wrote a review earlier in the year for one novella out of this collection ‘Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk” since that was being made into a movie and I wanted to get ahead of the game. But then I never saw that movie, so who knows. Anyway, here’s the rest of the collection. There’s a bunch of longish stories in this book and a handful of much shorter ones. The title story is about 120 pages long and the shortest is like nine, so there’s […]
Shakespeare of Siberia….but not really
There is a new movie of this novella coming out sometime soon. It should be interesting. This is a relatively obscure Russian writer (at least outside of knowing circles) and I have had this book for awhile before I sat down to read this. Something is to be said about sitting down to read short stories that generally cap out at 50-100 pages. So picking up one of his novellas make more sense. As with a lot of stories, a young woman is married off […]