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    What the Emperor Cannot Do: Tales and Legends of the Orient

    By Vlas Doroshevich

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    These Oriental fables by Russian great Vlas Doroshevich are unexpected, exciting, colourful and tremendously readable. Doroshevich could not stand tyranny in any form and used his tales to mock and accuse the rich and the powerful for their wickedness, hypocrisy and stupidity. The themes within will ring large with the anti-establishment and ‘Occupy’ movements of today. Doroshevich’s works were often banned during Tsarist times and then finally banned completely under the Bolsheviks. This great Russian writer, a friend of Chekhov, is only now being resurrected from oblivion. This is the first English translation of his Tales.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlas
    Release dateJun 30, 2015
    ISBN9785717201209
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      The first English translation of fiction from the Russian "master of the feuilleton", whose writings were frequently banned by both the Tsarist and subsequent Soviet authorities.A collection of moral fables, set primarily in mythical versions of China and the Middle East. To dismiss them solely as "Orientalist" — for, without a doubt, they are — would be to miss the point: unable to openly criticize contemporary society, instead we see the time-honoured method of transposing the criticism to another time and place. (See, for example, Tynyanov's Stalin-period satires.)Which isn't to say that all is roses, however. Relatively short and numerous,they suffer much the same problem as attempting to digest all of Ambrose Bierce's social critiques at once: there's a more bit of a repetitiveness to the themes, the stock characters, and the morals, and attempting to digest them all at once can leave one weary. Best consumed in small, bite-sized doses.