LEADER 03565nam 2200625 450 001 9910467158703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-5805-5 010 $a1-60909-171-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501758058 035 $a(CKB)3800000000006904 035 $a(EBL)3382607 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001370869 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11881395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001370869 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11297586 035 $a(PQKB)10889930 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382607 035 $a(OCoLC)896213473 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse37697 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382607 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10981158 035 $a(DE-B1597)572255 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501758058 035 $a(EXLCZ)993800000000006904 100 $a20141119h20142014 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTrepanation of the skull /$fSergey Gandlevsky ; translated by Susanne Fusso ; design by Yuni Dorr 210 1$aDe Kalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 225 0 $aNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87580-715-1 327 $a""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Trepanation of the Skull""; ""People Mentioned""; ""Places Mentioned""; ""MAP 1a???Moscow""; ""MAP 2a???Environs of Moscow""; ""MAP 3a???USSR""; ""Notes"" 330 $a"Sergey Gandlevsky is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. His autobiographical novella Trepanation of the Skull is a portrait of the artist as a young late-Soviet man. At the center of the narrative are Gandlevsky's brain tumor, surgery, and recovery in the early 1990s. The story radiates out, relaying the poet's personal history through 1994, including his unique perspective on the 1991 coup by Communist hardliners resisted by Boris Yeltsin. Gandlevsky tells wonderfully strange but true episodes from the bohemian life he and his literary companions led. He also frankly describes his epic alcoholism and his ambivalent adjustment to marriage and fatherhood. Aside from its documentary interest, the book's appeal derives from its self-critical and shockingly honest narrator, who expresses himself in the densely stylized version of Moscow slang that was characteristic of the nonconformist intelligentsia of the 1970s and 1980s. Gandlevsky is a true artist of language who incorporates into his style the cadences of Pushkin and Tiutchev, the folk wisdom of proverbs, and slang in all its varieties. Susanne Fusso's excellent translation marks the first volume in English of Sergey Gandlevsky's prose, and it will interest scholars, students, and general readers of Russian literature and culture of the late Soviet and post-Soviet periods"--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 610 $aSergey Gandlevsky, Pushkin, Tiutchev, MOscow slang, Boris Yeltsin. 615 7$aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union. 676 $a891.73/44 700 $aGandlevskii?$b Sergei?$01034584 702 $aFusso$b Susanne 702 $aDorr$b Yuni 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910467158703321 996 $aTrepanation of the skull$92453797 997 $aUNINA