BETWEEN DOG & WOLF

RUSSIAN LIBRARY The Russian Library at Columbia University Press publishes an expansive se- lection of Russian literature in English translation, concentrating on works previously unavailable in English and those ripe for new translations. Works of premodern, modern, and contemporary literature are featured, including recent writing. The series seeks to demonstrate the breadth, surprising variety, and global importance of the Russian literary tradition and includes not only novels but also short stories, plays, poetry, memoirs, creative nonfiction, and works of mixed or fluid genre.

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Strolls with Pushkin by Andrei Sinyavsky, translated by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy and Slava I. Yastremski Fourteen Little Red Huts and Other Plays by Andrei Platonov, translated by Robert Chandler, Jesse Irwin, and Susan Larsen SASHA SOKOLOV

BETWEEN DOG & WOLF

Translated and annotated by Alexander Boguslawski

Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Между собакой и волком © 1980 by Sasha Sokolov Published by arrangement with ELKOST Intl. Literary Agency Published with the support of Read Russia, Inc., and the Institute of Literary Translation, Russia Translation copyright © 2017 Alexander Boguslawski All rights reserved

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Sokolov, Sasha, 1943- author. | Boguslawski, Alexander Prus, translator, writer of added commentary. Title: Between dog and wolf / Sasha Sokolov ; translated and annotated by Alexander Boguslawski. Other titles: Mezhdu sobakoæi i volkom. English | Russian library (Columbia University Press) Description: New York : Columbia University Press, 2017. | Series: Russian library | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2016017983 (print) | LCCN 2016018735 (ebook) | ISBN 9780231181464 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231181471 (pbk.) | ISBN 9780231543729 (electronic) Classification: LCC PG3549.S64 M4813 2017 (print) | LCC PG3549.S64 (ebook) | DDC 891.73/44—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016017983

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I’m fond of friendly conversation And of a friendly glass or two At dusk or entre chien et loup— As people say without translation. —Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin •

The young man was a hunter. —Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago