Descrição
“How dared you, in disregard of all decency, call me a goose?” In a sharp-edged translation from John Cournos, an under-appreciated early translator of Russian literature into English, How the Two Ivans Quarrelled is the story of two long-time friends who have a falling out when one of them calls the other a “goose.” From there, the argument intensifies and the escalation becomes more and more ludicrous. Never losing its generous antic spirit, the story nonetheless transitions form whither a friendship, to whither humanity, as it progresses relentlessly to its moving conclusion.
