Sunday, December 18, 2016

The Steel Flea (Nikolay Leskov)

Nikolay Leskov
The Steel Flea



A strange little tale, and it is very short, about Russian craftsmen bettering British crafts. Oddly written with sometimes nonsensical sentences and words which I assume this translation is attempting to match the original Russian feel of the book. It may be a tale mourning the loss of artisan craftmanship. Or maybe simply a weird little tale. Thoroughly enjoyable. I'll end this now or this review may be longer than the story.

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