Word: leskov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHOSTAKOVICH: KATERINA ISMAILOVA (3 LPs; Melodiya-Angel). This opera cost its composer considerable grief: shortly after he wrote it he was denounced by the Soviets for bourgeois intentions and vulgar execution. It is a brash work; at times openly satirical, at others tragically serious. The plot, based on Nikolai Leskov's story, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, tells of a frustrated wife who eventually destroys the men around her. All the characters are thoroughly unsympathetic. The recording, part of Capitol's new import of Russian phonography, is disappointing. As the wife, Niconora Andreyeva has spirited dramatic presence...
Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. The brilliance of this 19th century Russian author is still to be discovered by most Western readers; this collection shows him to be a taleteller of eloquence and subtle power...
Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. The brilliance of this 19th century Russian author is still to be discovered by most Western readers; this collection shows him to be a taleteller of eloquence and subtle power...
Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. In this well translated collection, U.S. readers can sample the half-world of firebirds, angels and demons of the old Russian skaz-a narrative form which the author made famous in his own country...
Statements about national characteristics are always dangerous but always tempting. As the Irish genius is essentially in the voice, as the French is in beautiful logic and logical beauty, so the Russian genius wings straight for the remotest caverns of the soul. At his best, Leskov tells his stories simply, almost confidingly, putting incident and observation unpretentiously one after another until, before the reader realizes it, he has been led out of the story, and even out of Russia, to glimpse some of the mystery of his own existence...