A Ring in a Case (Contemporary South Asia; 1) - Hardcover

Yuz Aleshkovsky; Jane Ann Miller

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810111381 ISBN 13: 9780810111387

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Set in post-Gorbachev Moscow, A Ring in a Case is the first novel to explore the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of Russia after perestroika. Helium Revolverovich Serious, a specialist in scientific atheism, begins to doubt his lack of belief in God when he becomes plagued by demons. His meditations reflect the philosophical questions posed throughout Russian literature and illuminate the collapse of Russian society.

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From the Back Cover:

Finished in 1992 and set in post-Gorbachev Moscow, this is the first novel to explore the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of Russia after perestroika. A Ring in a Case details the religious and moral regeneration of Helium Revolverovich Serious, a specialist in scientific atheism who begins to doubt his lack of belief in God when he becomes plagued by demons. His subsequent meditations reflect the essential philosophical questions posed throughout Russian literature and illuminate the collapse of contemporary Russian society. A Ring in a Case offers an invaluable assessment from the vantage point of the system's collapse.

About the Author:

Yuz Aleshkovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in 1929. He became a writer only after serving in the armed froces and spending several years in a labor camp. His first books were for children, and later he wrote film and televisino scripts. He was best known in Russia, however, for his irreverent samizdat song lyrics, and his reptuation in the West rests on such equally impudent novels as Kangaroo (1986) andThe Hand (1989). Aleshkovsky emigrated from the U.S.S.R. in 1979 and lives with his family in Connecticut.

Jane Ann Miller is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Dartmouth College. She has translated works by Joseph Brodsky, Vladislav Khodasevich, and Lyudmilla Petrushevskaya and has published widely on Russian literature.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0810111381
• ISBN 13: 9780810111387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 249