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And it is quite obvious that they have very few of the qualities that make good fiction in the eyes of the ordinary novel-reader. There are marked inequalities of talent between them, as well as considerable differences of style. Pilniak is the most ambitious, he aims highest and at his worst falls lowest.
I do not think that the stories were meant as a deliberate contrast, they are just the outcome of the natural lack of preconceived idea which is typical of Pilniak and of his passive, receptive, plastical mind. The reader may miss the more elaborate and sensational stories of Soviet life.
Even in his famous novels of "Soviet life," it is only the subject matter he has found out for himself the methods of treating it are other peoples'. But this imitativeness makes Pilniak a writer of peculiar interest: he is a sort of epitome of modern Russian fiction, a living literary history, and this representative quality of his is perhaps the chief claim on our attention that can be advanced on behalf of the stories included in this book.
A conception, you will perceive, which is opposed to that of Lenin and the orthodox Communists, and which explains why official Bolshevism is not over-enthusiastic about Pilniak. But taken in themselves and apart from his later work I think the stories in the manner of Bunin will be found the most satisfactory items in this volume.
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