Moscow To The End Of The Line

Author : Venedikt Erofeev
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810112001
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow to the End of the Line written by Venedikt Erofeev and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and hopes a train to Petushki (where his "most beloved of trollops" awaits). On the way he bestows upon angels, fellow passengers, and the world at large a magnificent monologue on alcohol, politics, society, alcohol, philosophy, the pains of love, and, of course, alcohol.

Author : Mark Naumovich Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 9780765601766
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Russian Postmodernist Fiction written by Mark Naumovich Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically surveys 20th-century Russian literature to develop a specific understanding of Russian postmodernism, looking at work by Aksyonov, Bitov, Erofeev, Pietsukh, Popov, Sokolov, and Tolstaya. Also grapples with some central issues of the critical debate and draws on both Bakhtinian and chaos theory to describe postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos. The appendix provides biographical sketches and primary and secondary bibliographies. Paper edition (unseen) $25.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091944244
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Songs of St Petersburg written by Amor Towles and published by Random House. This book was released on 2017-02-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility. 'A comic masterpiece.' The Times 'Winning . . . gorgeous . . . satisfying . . . Towles is a craftsman.' New York Times Book Review 'A work of great charm, intelligence and insight.' Sunday Times 'Everything a novel should be: charming, witty, poetic and generous. An absolute delight.' Mail on Sunday 'If we do a better book than this one on the book club this year we will be very very lucky.' Matt Williams, Radio 2 Book Club 'Abundant in humour, history and humanity' Sunday Telegraph 'Wistful, whimsical and wry.' Sunday Express On 21 June 1922 Count Alexander Rostov - recipient of the Order of Saint Andrew, member of the Jockey Club, Master of the Hunt - is escorted out of the Kremlin, across Red Square and through the elegant revolving doors of the Hotel Metropol. But instead of being taken to his usual suite, he is led to an attic room with a window the size of a chessboard. Deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the Count has been sentenced to house arrest indefinitely. While Russia undergoes decades of tumultuous upheaval, the Count, stripped of the trappings that defined his life, is forced to question what makes us who we are. And with the assistance of a glamorous actress, a cantankerous chef and a very serious child, Rostov unexpectedly discovers a new understanding of both pleasure and purpose.

Author : Venedikt Erofeev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow Circles written by Venedikt Erofeev and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Amor Towles
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735222363
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lincoln Highway written by Amor Towles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than ONE MILLION copies sold A TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick A New York Times Notable Book, and Chosen by Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Bill Gates and Barack Obama as a Best Book of the Year “Wise and wildly entertaining . . . permeated with light, wit, youth.” —The New York Times Book Review “A classic that we will read for years to come.” —Jenna Bush Hager, Read with Jenna book club “Fantastic. Set in 1954, Towles uses the story of two brothers to show that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as we might hope.” —Bill Gates “A real joyride . . . elegantly constructed and compulsively readable.” —NPR The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have hidden themselves in the trunk of the warden's car. Together, they have hatched an altogether different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take them all on a fateful journey in the opposite direction—to the City of New York. Spanning just ten days and told from multiple points of view, Towles's third novel will satisfy fans of his multi-layered literary styling while providing them an array of new and richly imagined settings, characters, and themes. “Once again, I was wowed by Towles’s writing—especially because The Lincoln Highway is so different from A Gentleman in Moscow in terms of setting, plot, and themes. Towles is not a one-trick pony. Like all the best storytellers, he has range. He takes inspiration from famous hero’s journeys, including The Iliad, The Odyssey, Hamlet, Huckleberry Finn, and Of Mice and Men. He seems to be saying that our personal journeys are never as linear or predictable as an interstate highway. But, he suggests, when something (or someone) tries to steer us off course, it is possible to take the wheel.” – Bill Gates

Author : Marcel Cornis-Pope
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9789027234520
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe written by Marcel Cornis-Pope and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the work undertaken in Vol. 1 of the History of the Literary Cultures of East-Central Europe, Vol. 2 considers various topographic sites--multicultural cities, border areas, cross-cultural corridors, multiethnic regions--that cut across national boundaries, rendering them permeable to the flow of hybrid cultural messages. By focusing on the literary cultures of specific geographical locations, this volume intends to put into practice a new type of comparative study. Traditional comparative literary studies establish transnational comparisons and contrasts, but thereby reconfirm, howev.

Author : Yerofeev/Mulrine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571322787
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow Stations written by Yerofeev/Mulrine and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-04 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last of his money on booze and sets off on a train journey to visit beautiful, picturesque, utopian Petushki, where his beloved and child are waiting for him. But Venya's drinking gets out of control on the train, and Petushki seems to lie increasingly beyond his grasp. Funny and sad, Yerofeev's alcohol-soaked story of a man on a train perfectly captures Soviet society on the brink of doom: exhausted, corrupt and heading into the night in sodden dignity. 'A dark and hilarious work cocktailing the satire of Gogol with the gutter-level eye of Bukowski and the menace and nightmare vision of Genet.' Time Out Moscow Stations -- the only novel published by the Russian writer Venedikt Yerofeev -- was written in 1969 and existed first only amongst samizdat circles, as a typed manuscript passed hand to hand by readers in Soviet Russia. It was first published officially in the magazine Sobriety and Culture in 1989. This translation was first published by Faber in 1997.

Author : Guillermo Erades
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0865478376
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Back to Moscow written by Guillermo Erades and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Martin came to Moscow at the turn of the millennium hoping to discover the country of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, and his beloved Chekhov. Instead he found a city turned on its head, where the grimmest vestiges of Soviet life exist side by side with the nonstop hedonism of the newly rich. Along with his hard-living expat friends, Martin spends less and less time on his studies, choosing to learn about the Mysterious Russian Soul from the city's unhinged nightlife scene"--

Author : Ellen E. Berry
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472082773
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-entering the Sign written by Ellen E. Berry and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russian artists and critics attest to the cultural changes emerging since the fall of the Soviet Union

Author : Karen L. Ryan-Hayes
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow-Petushki written by Karen L. Ryan-Hayes and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight scholars examine Erofeev's (1933-90) Moscow-Perushki, considered both in the west and in Russia to be a postmodern masterpiece. The novel takes readers on Moscow's suburban train into the cultural milieu of Brezhnev's Soviet Union. The analyses describe picaresque absences and annihilation, the sacred and the monstrous, inconsolable and other grief, existentialist motifs, and other concerns. Two of the essays are in Russian. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR