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2760182The Pit [Yama]https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-pit--yama--1230002286655/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2196509/0900b007-82d8-43e4-b792-f9ef73b886f3.jpg?v=6383836420731000008282MXNEditions Artisan Devereaux LLCInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>ALEXANDER KUPRIN</strong> (1870-1938) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the last exponents of the great tradition of Russian social realism.</p><p>His best-known novel, <em>The Pit (Yama),</em> is an overwhelming indictment of the timeless evil of prostitution. It is not without cause that YAMA has been called "the first and last honest work on the subject of prostitution."</p><p>It deals with the red-light district of a southern port city, focusing on the minutiae of the everyday life of the prostitutes, their housekeeping, economics, and social stratification; the business-like, daily commercial reckonings, the centuries-old science of amatory practice.</p><p>As Kuprins narrator in the novel puts it, all the horror is just thisthat there is no horror!</p><p>Despite its locale, Kuprins Yama is fundamentally universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents, pennies, sous or pfennigs.</p><p>Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette; and as for Yama, simply substitute Whitechapel, Montmartre, or the Barbary Coast.</p><p>These themes give Yama its power. It has been called disgusting and lurid. But so too are, perhaps, the outlandish painted images of a Goya.</p><p>All that remains is a petty trade, no better, no worse than, say, the trade in common foodstuffs.</p>...2696095The Pit [Yama]8282https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-pit--yama--1230002286655/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2196509/0900b007-82d8-43e4-b792-f9ef73b886f3.jpg?v=638383642073100000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20181230002286655_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_<p><strong>ALEXANDER KUPRIN</strong> (1870-1938) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the last exponents of the great tradition of Russian social realism.</p><p>His best-known novel, <em>The Pit (Yama),</em> is an overwhelming indictment of the timeless evil of prostitution. It is not without cause that YAMA has been called "the first and last honest work on the subject of prostitution."</p><p>It deals with the red-light district of a southern port city, focusing on the minutiae of the everyday life of the prostitutes, their housekeeping, economics, and social stratification; the business-like, daily commercial reckonings, the centuries-old science of amatory practice.</p><p>As Kuprins narrator in the novel puts it, all the horror is just thisthat there is no horror!</p><p>Despite its locale, Kuprins Yama is fundamentally universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents, pennies, sous or pfennigs.</p><p>Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette; and as for Yama, simply substitute Whitechapel, Montmartre, or the Barbary Coast.</p><p>These themes give Yama its power. It has been called disgusting and lurid. But so too are, perhaps, the outlandish painted images of a Goya.</p><p>All that remains is a petty trade, no better, no worse than, say, the trade in common foodstuffs.</p>(*_*)1230002286655_<p><strong>ALEXANDER KUPRIN</strong> (1870-1938) was a Russian novelist and short-story writer, one of the last exponents of the great tradition of Russian social realism.</p><p>His best-known novel, <em>The Pit (Yama),</em> is an overwhelming indictment of the timeless evil of prostitution. It is not without cause that YAMA has been called "the first and last honest work on the subject of prostitution."</p><p>It deals with the red-light district of a southern port city, focusing on the minutiae of the everyday life of the prostitutes, their housekeeping, economics, and social stratification; the business-like, daily commercial reckonings, the centuries-old science of amatory practice.</p><p>As Kuprins narrator in the novel puts it, all the horror is just thisthat there is no horror!</p><p>Despite its locale, Kuprins Yama is fundamentally universal. All that is necessary is to change the kopecks into cents, pennies, sous or pfennigs.</p><p>Jennka may be Eugenie or Jeannette; and as for Yama, simply substitute Whitechapel, Montmartre, or the Barbary Coast.</p><p>These themes give Yama its power. It has been called disgusting and lurid. But so too are, perhaps, the outlandish painted images of a Goya.</p><p>All that remains is a petty trade, no better, no worse than, say, the trade in common foodstuffs.</p>...1230002286655_Editions Artisan Devereaux LLClibro_electonico_80533c49-c935-3ce7-a549-0d2724867a4d_1230002286655;1230002286655_1230002286655Alexander KuprinInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/0c15da80-07f0-49ed-98e6-17a3128fb98e-epub-d09c4265-598d-4a6d-bbfa-a7d4941aa56f.epub2018-04-22T00:00:00+00:00Editions Artisan Devereaux LLC