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The Pit (Russian: Яма, romanized: Yama, published in English as Yama: The Pit) is a novel by Alexander Kuprin published in installments between 1909 and 1915, in Zemlya almanacs (Part 1 in 1909 and Parts 2–3 in 1914–1915).
- A. I. Kuprin, Bernard Guilbert Guerney
- 1909
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- Yama [The Pit], a Novel in Three Parts
- Guerney, Bernard Guilbert, 1894-1979
Mar 5, 2002 · Kuprin is too sincere, too big, to have written this with himself in mind; yet no reader of the scathing, searing arraignment called “Yama,” will question that the great, the gigantic Kuprin has shown “the burdens and abominations” of prostitution, in “simple, fine, and deathlessly-caustic images”; has shown that “all the horror ...
Aleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin (Russian: Александр Иванович Куприн; 7 September [O.S. 26 August] 1870 – 25 August 1938) was a Russian writer best known for his novels The Duel (1905) and Yama: The Pit (1915), as well as Moloch (1896), Olesya (1898), "Captain Ribnikov" (1906), "Emerald" (1907), and The Garnet Bracelet (1911 ...
Jan 1, 2001 · Written between 1909 and 1915 in three parts by the enfant terrible of Russian literature, Alexander Kuprin's Yama is an extraordinarily frank and in-depth look at the nature of prostitution that must certainly have been revolutionary for its time as it is no less powerful and relevant today.
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- 1909
- A. I. Kuprin, Bernard Guilbert Guerney
- Alexandre Kuprin
Yama: The Pit: A Novel of Prostitution. Alexandre Kuprin. University Press of the Pacific, 2001 - Fiction - 452 pages. Alexander Kuprin's YAMA is an overwhelming, truthful and staggering...
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Aleksandr Kuprin: Яма (Yama: The Pit; The Pit) In The Duel, Kuprin’s crusade was against the army. In this book it is against prostitution, specifically against how the prostitutes are exploited and ill-treated. The novel is set primarily in the Yama district of a Southern Russian city, probably Odessa, which used to be the stagecoach ...
