The Adventures of Dennis

The Adventures of Dennis is a collection of short stories for children written by Soviet author Viktor Dragunsky. They deal with the life of an eight-year-old boy in Moscow in the late 1950s and 1960s,[1] modelled on the author's son.[2] The first story was written in 1959; by 1961 a collection was published as a book. The total number of stories is about a hundred.[2]

Cover of the 1966 edition

The stories show a wide range of tone, with Dragunsky mixing the poetic, the satirical and the sentimental.[2] A 1999 review in the New Zealand Slavonic Journal describes the stories as "beautifully written" and offering "a rich psychological profile of Russian children".[3]

The Adventures of Dennis were popular in India, where they existed in English and Marathi translations.[1][4] One reason for their popularity was that they were more relatable when compared to English children's literature.[5] In 2016 they were for the first time translated directly from Russian into Hindi and Marathi.[1]

References
  1. Katz, Alexandra (18 November 2016). "Famed Russian children's book launched in Indian languages". Russia & India Report.
  2. Hellman, Ben (2013). Fairy Tales and True Stories: The History of Russian Literature for Children and Young People (1574–2010). Brill. pp. 525–526.
  3. New Zealand Slavonic Journal. Department of Russian, Victoria University of Wellington. 1999. p. 334.
  4. Kumar, Shikha (19 May 2015). "Tales from Russia". The Indian Express.
  5. Roy, Nilanjana S. (24 December 2015). "Why a generation of Indian writers, publishers and booklovers grew up reading Russian books". Scroll.in.
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