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Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage

by Aleshkovskiĭ, I︠U︡z, Aleshkovskiĭ, I︠U︡z

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Yuz Aleshkovsky turned Soviet reality into mad monologues whose unhinged speakers revealed everyday and cosmic truths. These two novels display his vivid imagination and unmistakable voice.

Nikolai Nikolaevich and Camouflage: Two Novels

by Aleshkovsky, Yuz

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Among contemporary Russian writers, Yuz Aleshkovsky stands out for his vivid imagination, his mixing of realism and fantasy, and his virtuosic use of the rich tradition of Russian obscene language. These two novels, written in the 1970s, display Aleshkovsky’s linguistic gifts an…

The life written by himself

by Avvakum Petrovich,, Protopope, Avvakum Petrovich,, Protopope

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"Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide f…

The Life Written by Himself

by Gluck, Michael, Brostrom, Kenneth N., Petrov, Avvakum, Brostrom, Kenneth

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Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide fo…

The Life Written by Himself

by Brostrom, Kenneth N., Petrov, Avvakum, Brostrom, Kenneth

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Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide fo…

Fourteen little red huts and other plays

by Duzhina, N. I., Platonov, Andrej Platonovič, Cesarini, Carlo Francesco

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"In this essential collection of Andrei Platonov's plays, the noted Platonov translator Robert Chandler edits and introduces The Hurdy-Gurdy (translated by Susan Larsen), Fourteen Little Red Huts (translated by Chandler), and Grandmother's Little Hut (translated by Jesse Irwin).…