Pushkin House

Bitov, Andrei

ISBN 10: 0374239347 / ISBN 13: 9780374239343

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A., 1987

About this Item

Translated by Susan Brownsberger.

Seller Inventory # 015617

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pushkin House
• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374239347
• ISBN 13: 9780374239343
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First U.S. Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

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Synopsis

Pushkin House is the major novel of one of the Soviet Union's most remarkable contemporary writers. Intensely psychological and concerned with its own relation to the rich past of Russian letters, Bitov's work makes him an heir to Nabokov and a gifted, powerful opponent of Socialist Realism.

Reviews

American readers can now enjoy the sumptuous masterpiece of an important contemporary Russian novelist, whose book chronicles the search of modern Soviet intellectual Lyova Odoevtsev for a genuine personal identity within a society that devalues and uproots the individual. Using a complex, densely layered style, Bitov creates keen psychological portraits of such fascinating eccentrics as Lyova's Uncle Mitya and his grandfather, Modest, a survivor of the camps. Bearing comparison with the works of such modern masters as Bely, Joyce, and especially Nabokovwhose great novel, The Gift , is an obvious antecedentthis dazzling book expands our view of the possibilities of the contemporary novel.Alphonse Vinh, Yale Univ. Lib.
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