Nikolai Leskov was born in 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo in Russia. He began his writing career as a journalist living in Kiev, and later settled in St. Petersburg. He published his first piece of fiction in 1862 in The Northern Bee, and continued on to write and publish many short stories and novellas, including The Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (1865), The Sealed Angel (1873), The Enchanted Wanderer (1873), and Lefty(1882). He died in February 1895.
Cáustico retrato de la vida rusa, y a la vez poderosa fábula «futurista», esta divertidísima historia, en una nueva y brillante traducción por parte de Sara Gutiérrez, es, sin duda, una de las grandes obras maestras de la narrativa rusa del XIX.Escrita al modo de un cuento tradicional...
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