Name: Yama
ISBN: 9798570707467

Aleksandr Kuprin Yama the Pit

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The Pit Aleksandr Kuprin (Translator: Bernard Guilbert Guerney) Illustrated

Yama

Aleksandr Kuprin

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...

Yama The Pit Aleksandr Kuprin (Translator: Bernard Guilbert Guerney) Illustrated

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