| Kraevskii, Lev | Golod serdtsa. Novelly i rasskazy. Berlin, Heinrich Caspari Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1911. 136 p. | €400 |
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| 8vo, original covers. Boxed in a custom made box with gilt tooled labels. Produced by Grafiska museet, Helsingborg. FINE. Collection of erotic stories. Some of the stories could not be printed in Russia due to strict censorial regulations.Collection of stories found able publisher in Berlin and became a bestseller. Kravskii's books were sold through a chain of bokkdealers outside Russia, specializing in sales of Russian émigré literature to tourists from Russia. The book was popular with Russian emigres through 1930's, and it was still considered as 'the literature for adults' even by late 1930's. Kraevskii book could be counted along with Mikhail Arstybashev's 'Sanin' and 'U poslednei cherty' as incunabula of 20th century Russian erotic and sensual literature. The book was known to Vladimir Nabokov and some authors claim a plot from one of the novels was used by Nabokov in his 'Lolita'. |