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The Man Who Couldn't Die: The Tale of an Authen, Schwartz, Slavnikova, L HB+=
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- État
- PublishedOn
- 2019-02-12
- ISBN
- 9780231185943
- EAN
- 9780231185943
- Book Title
- Man Who Couldn't Die : the Tale of an Authentic Human Being
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Original Language
- Russian
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 2019
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Genre
- Literary Collections, Fiction
- Topic
- General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 13.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 248 Pages
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In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him--and his pension--alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova's The Man Who Couldn't Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life--and the means and meaning of their own lives--by creating a world that doesn't change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled. After her stepfather's stroke, Marina hangs Brezhnev's portrait on the wall, edits the Pravda articles read to him, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile, her mother, Nina Alexandrovna, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well--to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz, The Man Who Couldn't Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia's modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231185944
ISBN-13
9780231185943
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038304432
Product Key Features
Book Title
Man Who Couldn't Die : the Tale of an Authentic Human Being
Original Language
Russian
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Literary, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Publication Year
2019
Genre
Literary Collections, Fiction
Number of Pages
248 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
13.8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pg3488.L35b4713 2018
Reviews
The Man Who Couldn't Die , lucidly translated by Marian Schwartz, will resound with American readers. Bristling with voter fraud, fake news, and the cozy top-and-tail of media moguls and politicians, Slavnikova's book is fluent in new language of the damaged reality principle., Darkly sardonic . . . . oddly timely, for there are all sorts of understated hints about voter fraud, graft, payoffs, and the endless promises of politicians who have no intention of keeping them. It is also deftly constructed, portraying a world and a cast of characters who are caught between the orderly if drab world of old and the chaos of the 'new rich' in a putative democracy. . . . Slavnikova is a writer American readers will want to have more of., A startling phantasmagoric dystopia, award-winning author Slavnikova's original and challenging vision of Russia's tumultuous 1990s ruminates on death, temporality, memory, illusions, and the persistence of an inert past in a chaotic present. This unforgettable novel cannot help but leave the post-Bond reader both shaken and stirred., The Man Who Couldn't Die is a wonderful depiction of a society in flux, and of the people caught up in these waves of change., The Man Who Couldn't Die is a Gogolian portrait of the Kharitonovs, a Moscow family who 'had not been handed any party favors at capitalism's kiddie party' after the fall of the Soviet Union., Rather than celebrate the crumbling of walls, Slavnikova's novel shows us all the Lenin statues still in place. It portrays a culture chained to old realities, unable to establish a new understanding of itself. This is a funhouse mirror worth looking into, especially in today's United States with its alternative facts, unpoetic assertions, and morbid relationship with the past., The Man Who Couldn't Die is an overlooked masterpiece of post-Soviet prose by one of contemporary Russia's most important authors. It reveals how Slavnikova's descriptions (and Schwartz's English equivalent) belong alongside those of Vladimir Nabokov, Iurii Olesha, and Nikolai Gogol as truly revolutionary in Russian prose.
Copyright Date
2019
Lccn
2022-497614
Dewey Decimal
891.735
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
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