Beyond Tula: A Soviet Pastoral

Combining burlesque absurdism & lofty references to classical literature with a tongue-in-cheek plot about an industrializing rural proletariat, Beyond Tula--subtitled “a Soviet pastoral”—actually appeared in the official Soviet press in 1931. This novel offers an uproarious romp through the earnestly boring & unintentionally campy world of early Soviet “production” prose.

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Ainsley Morse is a translator of both Russian & former Yugoslav literature. Currently a professor at Dartmouth College, Morse’s previous publications include translations of Vsevolod Nekrasov, Andrey Egunov-Nikolev, & Yury Tynianov. Most recently, she co-edited F-Letter, an anthology of contemporary Russian feminist poetry (isolarii, 2020).