A review by fearandtrembling
Sentimental Tales by Mikhail Zoščenko, Boris Dralyuk

4.0

Dark, bitter Russian humour, as thick and bracing as black coffee, is totally my jam. The Russians seem like the literary precursors of most things and such is the case with this collection of six tales: very postmodernist, but originally published in 1929. Through the metafictional device of an author who asserts his own opinions in every story, the actual author Zoshchenko satirises & probes the contradictions of early Bolshevik society. A delight.