E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten
Kuprin Yama: The Pit
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-963-524-150-7
Verlag: Booklassic
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten
ISBN: 978-963-524-150-7
Verlag: Booklassic
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection
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, the bizarreries of Goya...