Modern Idyll | |
Title Orig: | Современная идиллия |
Author: | Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin |
Country: | Russian Empire |
Language: | Russian |
Genre: | Political satire, picaresque novel, menippean satire[1] |
Publisher: | Otechestvennye Zapiski |
Release Date: | 1883 |
Modern Idyll (Russian: Современная идиллия|translit=Sovremennaya idilliya, also mentioned as Contemporary Idyll) is a satirical novel (viewed alternatively as a thematically linked short story collection) by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, started in 1877 and originally serialized by Otechestvennye Zapiski magazine. It came out as a separate edition in 1883 to great public and critical acclaim.[2]