PILNIAK, Boris, pseud. [Boris Andreevich VOGAU].
Shtoss v zhizn’ [Shtoss in life].
Berlin, Petropolis, [1929].
8vo, pp. 82, [3], [3 (advertisements)]; a very good copy, uncut and partly unopened, in the original printed paper wrappers, slightly soiled, spine and extremities worn.
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Shtoss v zhizn’ [Shtoss in life].
First edition, a collection of three stories.
The title story is set during the final year of Lermontov’s life, its name referring to the card game ‘shtoss’, also the title of a story left unfinished by Lermontov. The other two stories in the volume are ‘Gorod vetrov’ [‘Town of winds’], dedicated to Pasternak, and ‘Zemlia na rukakh’ [‘Earth in your hands’].