Venedikt Erofeevs Moscow Petushki

Download or read book Moscow to the End of the Line written by Venedikt Erofeev and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and hopes a train to Petushki (where his "most beloved of trollops" awaits). On the way he bestows upon angels, fellow passengers, and the world at large a magnificent monologue on alcohol, politics, society, alcohol, philosophy, the pains of love, and, of course, alcohol.

Download or read book Venedikt Erofeev's Moscow-Petushki written by Karen L. Ryan-Hayes and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight scholars examine Erofeev's (1933-90) Moscow-Perushki, considered both in the west and in Russia to be a postmodern masterpiece. The novel takes readers on Moscow's suburban train into the cultural milieu of Brezhnev's Soviet Union. The analyses describe picaresque absences and annihilation, the sacred and the monstrous, inconsolable and other grief, existentialist motifs, and other concerns. Two of the essays are in Russian. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Moscow Stations written by Venedikt Yerofeev and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moscow Stations, Venedikt Yerofeev's autobiographical novel, is in many ways the successor to Gogol's Dead Souls. The two works are comic historical bookends, with Gogol's novel portraying the sloth and corruption of feudal Russia and Yerofeev's novel portraying the sloth and corruption of feudal Communism. The truth is that while the streets of Moscow may be clogged with Volvos and Mercedes sedans these days - in keeping with the new capitalism - the anguish and dissipation of the late, coruscating empire are still the real fact of life for most people. Moscow Stations remains a lesson in the current events of the Russian soul.The novel is a mixture of high, drunken comedy - a portrait of a soul filled with wisdom and pickled in Hunter's vodka who spends his days traipsing around Moscow but has never once seen the Kremlin. With this cheerful admission we are off on a hallucinatory ride through the increasingly desperate mind of Venedikt Yerofeev. He once remarked that Moscow Stations was 'ninety pages of funny stuff and ten pages of sad stuff' but it is mostly about a clear-eyed man who can still say, no matter how much he has drunk: 'I, who have consumed so much that I've lost track of how much, and in what order - I'm the soberest man in the world.'

Download or read book Wandering in Circles written by Jill Martiniuk and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wandering in Circles: Venichka’s Journey of Redemption in “Moskva-Petushki” examines the definition of redemption in Venedikt Erofeev’s Moskva-Petushki. By placing Erofeev’s poema in conversation with other travel narratives from Russia and the West, the book explores the meaning of redemption across societies and cultures, and how Erofeev creates a commentary on the possibility of redemption in a broken political and social system. Through this comparative approach to Moskva-Petushki, this work offers a new reading of the text as a journey of failed social and personal redemption.

Download or read book Russian Postmodernist Fiction written by Mark Naumovich Lipovet︠s︡kiĭ and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 1999 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically surveys 20th-century Russian literature to develop a specific understanding of Russian postmodernism, looking at work by Aksyonov, Bitov, Erofeev, Pietsukh, Popov, Sokolov, and Tolstaya. Also grapples with some central issues of the critical debate and draws on both Bakhtinian and chaos theory to describe postmodern poetics as a dialogue with chaos. The appendix provides biographical sketches and primary and secondary bibliographies. Paper edition (unseen) $25.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book The Twentieth-century Russian Novel written by David Gillespie and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 1996 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight of Russia's most popular and significant novels are presented in this important new guide for students. Works include: - "We" by Evgenii Zamiatin - "Red Cavalry" by Isaak Babel - "Envy" by Iurii Olesha - "How the Steel Was Tempered" by Nikolai Ostrovskii - "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov - "Doctor Zhivago" by Boris Pasternak - "Cancer Ward" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn - "Pushkin House" by Andrei Bitov In each chapter, David Gillespie examines one novel in detail and explores the career of the author and the critical reception of the work. Throughout, considerable reference is made to recently published scholarship and archival materials to provide students and scholars of Russian and Comparative Literature with a guide to these important Russian authors and their place in the world of literature. The book also includes an extensive bibliography of secondary literature and contains textual references in both the original Russian and in English translation.

Download or read book Persisting in Folly written by Oliver Ready and published by Russian Transformations: Literature, Culture and Ideas. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foolishness has long occupied a prominent place in Russian culture, touching on key questions of national, spiritual, and intellectual identity. Combining close readings with a contextual framework, this book offers a wide-ranging consideration of the causes and consequences of modern Russian literature's enduring quest for wisdom through folly.