Man and His Surroundings / / Fazil Iskander, Fazil Iskander.
Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book’s seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasma...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Translator’s Introduction -- Instead of a Foreword -- 1 Lenin at the Amra -- 2 The Rapier -- 3 The Hunting Hawk -- 4 The Beauty of Norms, or a Boy Waits for a Man -- 5 The Light of the Twilight Youth -- 6 A Sea of Charisma -- 7 Palermo—New York -- 8 The Old Men’s Bender on the Sea -- 9 Lenin and Uncle Sandro -- About the Translator |
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Summary: | Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book’s seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasmagorical account of what “Lenin” thought and did during the October Revolution of 1917 and how another revolution is imminent. In another novella, the narrator tells of a nationally renowned fencer as the fencer sits at a neighboring table, discussing the impossibility of equality on earth, while his son pesters him for ice cream. The novellas enrapture the reader with their humor and impart a better intuitive understanding of the Soviet cultural heritage and mindset. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9798887191065 9783111023540 9783111178042 9783111319292 9783111318912 9783111319186 9783111318264 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9798887191065 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Fazil Iskander, Fazil Iskander. |