192 Pages
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Central European University Press
The Latvian Janis Ezerins's best work was created in the genre of the short story. Among his literary models were Boccaccio, Maupassant and Poe. During his active literary working life, which lasted approximately five to six years of his short life, Ezerins seemingly grasped an encyclopaedia of possibilities and subject matter, as well as the versatility of storytelling, not avoiding either... Read more
Preface, The Tower, The Flea's Tale, A Game of Chess, Father Burbeck’s Secret, The Ape, A Body in the Marsh, The Gravediggers, The Bathhouse at the Jocu Homestead.
Biography
Jānis Ezeriņš (1891–1924) accomplished much in his life of 33 years. He lived in a time of great social and political upheaval. Born in tsarist Russia, he died in the newly independent Republic of Latvia (1918), which in many ways resembled the present-day one – Latvia regained independence from the USSR in 1991.
Translated by Ilze Gulēna.
