Another Life and the House on the Embankment
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Northwestern University Press
Published:30th Dec '99
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Widely regarded as a major writer of his generation, Yuri Trifonov tolerated attack and admiration in the Soviet Union. His novellas are celebrated as being in the tradition of great nineteenth-century Russian writing. In Another Life, a woman suddenly widowed attempts to grasp the memory of her brilliant, erratic husband, and to understand their life together. The House on the Embankment is the story of an academic opportunist who rises to apparatchik but suffers the oppression of society, friends, and most of all his inability to make decisions.
These novellas are valuable works of literature, whose courage is only slowly revealed. . . . Another Life is nearly flawless. . . . Trifonov may be seen as a Soviet Chekhov." --Richard Lourie, New York Times Book Review
"Trifonov is an old-fashioned psychologist, a master of characterization, an even greater master of the space and interaction between the individuals he observes in their craving for love, status, and self-respect." —The Nation
"Tolstoy, Turgenev, Trifonov . . . of all the Russian novelists of the past twenty years, Yuri Trifonov is one of the closest to those two eminent forebears." —New Leader
ISBN: 9780810115705
Dimensions: 202mm x 129mm x 25mm
Weight: 375g
350 pages