Sleepwalker in a Fog - Softcover

Tolstaya, Tatyana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067973063X ISBN 13: 9780679730637

Publisher: Vintage International, 1993

Synopsis

By "the most original, tactile, luminous voice in Russian prose today" (Joseph Brodsky), Sleepwalker in a Fog is a collection of seven stories and a novella set in contemporary Russia. Here is Denisov, who fears his greatest accomplishment in life will be the treatise he wrote and tore up. He is betrothed to Lora, an incessant talker who dreams of having a fluffy tail. We also read of Natasha, who searches Leningrad and her memory for her lost love; of Dmitry Ilich's elaborate seduction of Olga Mikhailovna; and more. In the tradition of such writers as Gogol and Chekhov, Tatyana Tolstaya transforms ordinary lives into something magical and strange.

Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell

About this title

From the Back Cover:

"[Tolstaya] carves indelible people who roam the imagination long after the book is put down." -- Time

"A gorgeous, intricate, wildly rampaging Russian garden in summer bloom." -- New Republic

"Urgent and hyperreal...[Tolstaya] achieves extraordinary effects." -- The New York Times Book Review

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage International
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 067973063X
• ISBN 13: 9780679730637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204