PILNIAK, Boris, pseud. [Boris Andreevich VOGAU].
Povesti o chernom khlebe [Stories about black bread].
Moscow & St. Petersburg, “Krug”, 1923.
12mo, pp. [6], 9-132, [2]; browned throughout, but a very good copy in the original striped black wrappers, paper cover label, yapp edges (chipped).
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Povesti o chernom khlebe [Stories about black bread].
First edition, comprising two short stories, ‘Volki’ (Wolves) and ‘Chernyi Khleb’ (Black bread), written in Kolomna in 1922-3.
The stories from these years immediately following the Civil War ‘– obviously difficult and apparently fragmentary, plotless and stylistically heterogeneous – were widely imitated’ (Terras). Pil’niak had helped found the publishing house ‘Krug’ in 1922 – which went on to print works by Bely, Ehrenburg, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, and Pasternak, inter alia.
