Man and His Surroundings
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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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9798887191041 |
Publisher: | Academic Studies Press |
Imprint: | Academic Studies Press |
Pub date: | 18 May 2023 |
DEWEY: | 891.7344 |
DEWEY edition: | 23/eng/20221121 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 324 |
Weight: | 649g |
Height: | 229mm |
Width: | 152mm |
Spine width: | 22mm |