Yama: The Pit
A novel about prostitution in Moscow. From the introduction:It must not be thought, despite its locale, that Kuprin's Yama is a picture of Russian prostitution solely; it is intrinsically universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents, pennies, sous or pfennings; compute the versts into miles or metres; Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette; and for Yama, simply read Whitechapel, Montmartre, or the Barbary Coast. That is why Yama is a tremendous, staggering, and truthful book- a terrific book. It has been called notorious, lurid- even oleographic. So are, perhaps, the picaresques of Murillo, the pictorial satires of Hogarth…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-963-524-150-7
- EAN: 9789635241507
- Produktnummer: 27990932
- Verlag: Booklassic
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 244 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 656 KB
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