Bibliograph

Other worlds, peasants, pilgrims, spirits, saints, Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn, Anne Marie Jackson, Sabrina Jaszi, Sara Jolly and Nicolas Pasternak Slater ; edited by Robert Chandler

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Other worlds, peasants, pilgrims, spirits, saints, Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn, Anne Marie Jackson, Sabrina Jaszi, Sara Jolly and Nicolas Pasternak Slater ; edited by Robert Chandler

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Other worlds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Teffi ; translated from the Russian by Robert Chandler, Elizabeth Chandler, Maria Bloshteyn, Anne Marie Jackson, Sabrina Jaszi, Sara Jolly and Nicolas Pasternak Slater ; edited by Robert Chandler

Sub title

peasants, pilgrims, spirits, saints

Summary

The stories collected here share spiritual and supernatural themes, drawing from the provincial Russia of Teffi's youth to depict communities where Orthodox Christianity coexists with the shapeshifters and house spirits of ancient folk belief. A young girl, haunted by the sinister sound of a church bell, resolves to become a saint. A reluctant participant on a mass pilgrimage to the Solovetsky Islands has a shatteringly profound experience. A young married couple's relationship becomes strained as they each nurse the unspoken fear that their maid is a witch. By turns playful and profound, drily sceptical and solemn, these tales of other worlds precisely illuminate human desires, fears and failings

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