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Beilis, Victor

 
9781783086726: Death of a Prototype: The Portrait
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ISBN 10 : 1783086726 ISBN 13 : 9781783086726
Editeur : Anthem Press, 2017

Synopsis

This is the first work by Victor Beilis to make it into English since the single-volume publication in 2002 of a duo of novellas—“The Rehabilitation of Freud & Bakhtin and Others”(translated by Richard Grose). Much like the novellas that preceded it, “Death of a Prototype” is a hyper-allusive and self-consciously difficult work. Beilis engages closely with an entire spectrum of Russian and European cultural traditions, from classical antiquity to twentieth-century postmodernism. Structurally heterogeneous and fragmented with styles, genres and narrators succeeding one another at great speed, “Death of a Prototype” is also highly balanced and controlled, in some ways recalling a contrapuntal musical composition abounding in thematic echoes and correspondences. “Death of a Prototype” simultaneously challenges and rewards the reader, especially one attuned to fine-grain detail.

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À propos de l'auteur

Victor Beilis is a scholar of African folklore and author of numerous short stories and one novel.

Leo Shtutin is a translator of literary fiction from Russian.

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Éditeur
Anthem Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1783086726
ISBN 13 
9781783086726
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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