The Road To Rome: Naughty Reminiscences About The Late Soviet Years - Couverture souple

Klimontovich, Nikolai

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 5717200692 ISBN 13 : 9785717200691

Editeur : Glas, 2004

Synopsis

Klimontovich, like most intellectuals of his generation, suffered from a "confinement complex", lacking the freedom to travel and see the world. This is the subject of The Road to Rome, relating his picaresque encounters with women from the West as his way of breaking out of stifling Soviet reality and into an exotic and forbidden world. Eventually able to travel abroad, he ends up spending a year in America and returns to Moscow the Third Rome with a firm conviction that his place is in Russia for better or for worse. However, as a result of his Odyssey, both existential, during his internal exile within Soviet Russia, and real trips to foreign lands, he attains the desired self-liberation.

The appeal of this book is not only in its infectious eroticism, its wit and humor but mainly in its masterful portrayal of Soviet Russia in the 1970s and 80s through a multitude of cleverly observed details.

Although The Road to Rome is actually a collection of reminiscences about real events it is structured as a plot-driven narrative and was in fact nominated for the Booker Prize in 1995 as a novel.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Born in 1951, Klimontovich made a living as a reporter before becoming the prize-winning novelist and playwright he is today. Many of his earlier works never passed the Soviet censors and were rejected by publishers and journals alike on grounds of their erroneous aesthetic and ideological views. Instead he was widely circulated in the samizdat (in the USSR) and published by tamizdat (abroad). Because of this he was constantly under KGB scrutiny appearance in émigré periodicals was considered a crime in the USSR.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Glas
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 5717200692
• ISBN 13: 9785717200691
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 271
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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