Before & During - Couverture souple

Sharov, Vladimir

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1907650717 ISBN 13 : 9781907650710

Editeur : Dedalus Ltd, 2014

Synopsis

Set in a psychiatric clinic in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its dismal surroundings on a series of fantastical excursions into the Russian past. Among the cast are the philosopher-hermit Nikolai Fyodorov, who believed that the common task of humanity was the physical resurrection of their ancestors; a self-replicating Madame de Staël who, during her second life, is carried through plague-ridden Russia in a glass palanquin and becomes Fyodorov s lover; and the composer Alexander Scriabin, who preaches to Lenin on the shores of Lake Geneva. Out of these intoxicating, darkly comic fantasies all described in a serious, steady voice Sharov seeks to retrieve the hidden connections and hidden strivings of the Russian past, its wild, lustful quest for justice, salvation and God. Winner of the 2015 Read Russia Prize.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

A historian of late-medieval Russia by training Vladimir Sharov, born in 1952, first turned to fiction in the late 1970s. It was not until the 1990s, however, that his extraordinarily imaginative and daring novels come to the attention of the public. When they did, they caused acrimony and controversy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dedalus Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1907650717
• ISBN 13: 9781907650710
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible