Smert' Posle Poludnya. [Death in the Afternoon].

[Moskva], Goslitizdat, 1934.
Limited to 8 000 copies.
Hemingway's first book in Russian. Passed for printing on 8/XII 1934. This edition includes stories from Hemingway's first book In Our Time (except On the Quai at Smyrna, The Revolutionist and My Old Man), Men Without Women (Ten Indians, The Killers, In Another Country, A Simple Enquiry, Che Ti Dice La Patria? (I), An Alpine Idyll, Hills Like White Elephants, A Canary for One, Now I Lay Me), Death in the Afternoon (an excerpt from twelfth chapter) and Winner Take Nothing (Homage to Switzerland, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, The Gambler, the Nun, and the Radio). Ivan Kashkin, critic and translator, was 'responsible for Hemingway reputation in the USSR'. He founded and headed 'the Soviet school' of literary translation. This team translated the book. Hemingway borrowed the name Kashkin for use in For Whom the Bell Tolls. Also Hemingway wrote that Kashkin 'is the best critic and translator I ever had'. The introduction appeared separately previously as an article in Literaturny Kritik 9 (September 1934). Here Kashkin wrote that Hemingway 'is outside the traditions of modern American literature' and compared him to Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekhov, Guy de Maupassant and Prosper Merimee. Hanneman, 287. Libman, 6686. OCLC locates three copies in USA only: in Harvard Library, University of Texas, University of Cambridge, one copy is in Belguim (Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library).