Marc Slonim proporciona una admiorable introducción pqara los que se inician por los caminos de la novela, el cuento, el teato y la poesÃa rusos y un recordatorio vivificante para los viejos entusiastas de la gran riqueza de esta literatura y de sus más altos representantes.
Once the Trojan War is over, Ulysses begins to return to Ithaca, where his son Telemachus and faithful wife Penelope await him. But the voyage is extended by ten long years, during which the Greek hero and his companions suffer all kinds of misfortunes. Only Ulysses? cunning helps him to return to his homeland safe and sound.