n/a Teffi, Ved'ma

Robert Chandler (Queen Mary, University of London)

Ed. by Andrei Rogatchevski, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.2.00: Post-1917 Writing and Culture in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, 1917-present.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1936

Places

France (Publication/ performance)
Russia (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Story Collection

Resources

Ved’ma (Witch – Berlin, 1936) is generally considered the finest of Teffi’s collections of short stories; it is certainly her most unusual collection, with a great variety of both tone and content.

Nearly all the stories bear the titles of folkloric beings – e.g. “Vedun” (“Wonder-Worker”), “Domovoi” (“House Spirit”) or “Rusalka” (the name given to a female water spirit resembling the Lorelei). Some stories are fanciful; others are sober, even grim. Some of the stories are realistic, with only the merest hints at anything supernatural; in others, the supernatural motifs are …

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Citation: Chandler, Robert. "Ved'ma". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 20 August 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=38906, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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