A Communist Compromise: Introducing Willem Elsschot’s Cheese Soviet Style

This contribution discusses the 1972 Soviet preface to one of Flanders' favourite novels, Willem Elsschot's Kaas (Cheese). With the help of its fairly recent reception in the Anglophone world, as a means of comparison, I scrutinized how the Russian editors tried to deal with the 'un-Soviet' topics of commerce and capitalism which the novel has so famously thematized.

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