Man and His Surroundings

di Fazil Iskander (Autore)

Fazil Iskander (Autore)

Alexander Rojavin (Traduttore)

Academic Studies Press, 2023

Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book’s seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasmagorical account of what “Lenin” thought and did during the October Revolution of 1917 and how another revolution is imminent. In another novella, the narrator tells of a nationally renowned fencer as the fencer sits at a neighboring table, discussing the impossibility of equality on earth, while his son pesters him for ice cream. The novellas enrapture the reader with their humor and impart a better intuitive understanding of the Soviet cultural heritage and mindset.

• Autore: Fazil Iskander, Fazil Iskander
• Traduttore: Alexander Rojavin
• Editore: Academic Studies Press
• Anno: 2023
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 400 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 152 mm
• Peso: 648 gr.
• EAN: 9798887191041

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