According to Gibian, Kazakov is distinctive among Russian authors. His work has an intrinsic, intangible quality which makes it unmistakably his. His characters are charged with emotion and tend to have a keen sense of an aspect of nature. Some enjoy the beauty of the visual world, some the scents of the forest, some the sounds of music but all intensely and with heightened senses experience the world around them. English translations "The Hound" (story), from Such a Simple Thing and Other Stories, FLPH, Moscow, 1959. from Archive.org Selected Short Stories, Pergamon Press, 1963. Going To Town and Other Stories, Houghton Mifflin, 1964. Arcturus the Hunting Hound: And Other Stories, Doubleday, 1968. Autumn in the Oak Woods: Short Stories, Moscow: Progress, 1970. "Adam and Eve" (story), from The Portable Twentieth Century Russian Reader, Penguin Classics, 2003. References Russian male short story writers Soviet short story writers 20th-century Russian short story writers 1927 births 1982 deaths 20th-century Russian male writers Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni