Sentimental Tales

“Dralyuk’s new translation of  Sentimental Tales , a collection of Zoshchenko’s stories from the 1920s, is a delight that brings the author’s wit to life.”— The Economist Mikhail Zoshchenko’s  Sentimental Tales  are satirical portraits of small-town characters on the fringes of Soviet society in the first decade of Bolshevik rule. The tales are narrated by one Kolenkorov, a writer not very good at his job, who takes credit for editing the tales in a series of comic prefaces. Yet b