Matvey

The fiction of Benjamin Matvey provides a deep, abiding, honest friendship.

X, Foreword by Ken Bingham Benjamin Matvey 2012

The fiction of Benjamin Matvey is just like this young man.

X, Foreword by Ken Bingham Benjamin Matvey 2012

Possibly the best way I can relate the work of Benjamin Matvey to the real world comes from an experience I had in early spring as I sat in Rittenhouse Square,Philadelphia.

X, Foreword by Ken Bingham Benjamin Matvey 2012

My husband bought me the new translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky for Christmas; my husband, Matvey, happens to be Russian, so he read it growing up in Moscow.

Dog-Eared Days 2008

He saw the long familiar figures of the saints, the verger Matvey puffing out his cheeks and blowing out the candles, the darkened candle stands, the threadbare carpet, the sacristan Lopuhov running impulsively from the altar and carrying the holy bread to the churchwarden ....

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

The verger Matvey set before him a little table with the memorial food upon it, and a little later the requiem service began.

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

Near Andrey Andreyitch stood the verger Matvey, the midwife

The Schoolmistress and other stories 2004

It was almost time for Matvey to come, when the door was opened and an unexpected visitor, Darya Onisimovna, walked in.

A Raw Youth 2003

Matvey arrived just then; I made her get into the sledge with me, and left her at

A Raw Youth 2003

But he did see my foppery, my flaunting swagger, my smart Matvey (I wanted once to drive him back in my sledge but he would not consent, and indeed it happened several times that he refused to be driven in it), he could see I was squandering money — and he said not a word, not a word, he showed no curiosity even!

A Raw Youth 2003