Author: Aleksandr Kuprin
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 462
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Yama (The Pit) recounts the lives of a group of prostitutes living and working in Anna Markovna’s brothel in the town of K⸺. The women, subject to effective slavery through the removal of their papers and onerous debts, act out a scene of easy affability every evening for the part ignorant, part monstrous clients, while keeping secret their own pasts and wished-for futures. The book was Kuprin’s attempt to denormalize the cultural ambiguity of the legal brothels of the time. His dedication—“to mothers and youths”—expresses his desire that there should no longer be a silent acceptance of the actions of the “fathers, husbands, and brothers.” The novel was notable for portraying the inhabitants of the brothels as living, breathing people with their own hopes and desires, not purely as a plot point or scenario. The critical response was mixed: many found the subject matter beyond the pale. Kuprin himself placed his hopes on a favourable review from Leo Tolstoy, which didn’t come; but there was praise for Yama as both social commentary and warning, and an appreciation for Kuprin’s attempt to detail the everyday lives of his subjects. The novel had a troubled genesis, with the first part taking nine years between initial proposal and first publication; the second and third parts followed five years later. It was a victim of the Russian censors who, tellingly, disapproved more of scenes involving officials visiting the brothels, than the brothels themselves. It was only later during preparations for an anthology of his work that an uncensored version was allowed to be released. This edition is based on the translation to English by Bernard Guilbert Guerney of that uncensored version, and was first published in 1922. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author: Aleksandr Kuprin
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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It must not be thought, despite its locale, that Kuprin's "Yama" is a picture of Russian prostitution solely; it is intrinsically universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents, pennies, sous or pfennings; compute the versts into miles or metres; Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette; and for Yama, simply read Whitechapel, Montmartre, or the Barbary Coast. That is why "Yama" is a "tremendous, staggering, and truthful book- a terrific book." It has been called notorious, lurid- even oleographic. So are, perhaps, the picaresques of Murillo, the pictorial satires of Hogarth, the bizarreries of Goya.
Author: Aleksandr Kuprin Yama the Pit
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience.
Author: Aleksandr Kuprin
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Languages : en
Pages : 221
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The Pit is a novel by Alexander Kuprin published in installments between 1909 and 1915, in Zemlya almanacs. The book, centering on a brothel, owned by a woman named Anna Markovna, caused much controversy in its time
Author: Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin
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Category : Erotic literature
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Author: Alexandra Kuprin
Publisher: Book Jungle
ISBN: 9781438521589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his masterpiece The Duel. Yama tells the story of the everyday life of the prostitutes in Odessa. This book is an overwhelming, truthful and staggering indictment of the immemorial evil of prostitution. No sheepish morality is here, but sheer, stark truth.
Author: Aleksandr Kuprin
Publisher: Independently Published
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Languages : en
Pages : 230
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A novel about prostitution in Moscow. From the introduction: It must not be thought, despite its locale, that Kuprin's "Yama" is a picture of Russian prostitution solely; it is intrinsically universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents, pennies, sous or pfennings; compute the versts into miles or metres; Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette; and for Yama, simply read Whitechapel, Montmartre, or the Barbary Coast. That is why "Yama" is a "tremendous, staggering, and truthful book- a terrific book." It has been called notorious, lurid- even oleographic. So are, perhaps, the picaresques of Murillo, the pictorial satires of Hogarth, the bizarreries of Goya...
Author: Александр Иванович Куприн
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Category : Prostitution
Languages : en
Pages : 422
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A social novel about the horrors of prostitution.
Author: Alexandra Kuprin
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN: 9781404341968
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Author: A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
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ISBN: 9781530295494
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Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel. Other well-known works include Moloch, Olesya, "Junior Captain Rybnikov", "Emerald", and The Garnet Bracelet.
