To the Stars and Other Stories - Original Russian Language Hardcover NEW Susanne

To the Stars and Other StoriesAuthor(s): Susanne Fusso, Fyodor Sologub\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Columbia University Press, United States\nImprint: Columbia University Press\nISBN-13: 9780231200042, 978-0231200042\nSynopsis\nA boy who feels persecuted by the banality of everyday life yearns to ascend to the cold and majestic plane of the stars. A seamstress finds liberation of a sort in becoming a dog and howling at the moon. A club of young girls masquerade as the grieving fiances of strange men. This book brings together these and other remarkable short stories by the Russian Symbolist Fyodor Sologub that explore the lengths to which people will go to transcend the mundane.\n\nRenowned as one of late imperial Russias finest stylists, Sologub bridges the great nineteenth-century novel and the fin-de-sicle avant-garde. He stands out for his masterful command of both realist and fantastic storytelling; his play with language evinces a belief in its capacity to access other worlds .