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...like reflections of literature collected in The Age of Enormity, a musuem of modern life has been opened where the meditations of a typical educated reader in our time await inspection; and that the stories. Alpha and Omega, reverberate with an awareness of that event which Benjamin defected in Leskov: "experience has fallen in value." It has become harder and harder to comprehend what happens to us, to claim significance; the leisured cultivation of consciousness is a condition of the past...
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...