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Trepanation of the skull / / Sergey Gandlevsky ; translated by Susanne Fusso ; design by Yuni Dorr



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Autore: Gandlevskiĭ Sergeĭ Visualizza persona
Titolo: Trepanation of the skull / / Sergey Gandlevsky ; translated by Susanne Fusso ; design by Yuni Dorr Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: De Kalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (161 p.)
Disciplina: 891.73/44
Soggetto topico: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Former Soviet Union
Soggetto non controllato: Sergey Gandlevsky, Pushkin, Tiutchev, MOscow slang, Boris Yeltsin
Classificazione: BIO026000FIC041000
Persona (resp. second.): FussoSusanne
DorrYuni
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Trepanation of the Skull -- People Mentioned -- Places Mentioned -- MAP 1. Moscow -- MAP 2. Environs of Moscow -- MAP 3. USSR -- Notes.
Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
Titolo autorizzato: Trepanation of the skull  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-5017-5805-5
1-60909-171-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910796480603321
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