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Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can
drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he
spends the last of his money on booze and sets off on a train
journey to visit beautiful, picturesque, utopian Petushki, where
his beloved and child are waiting for him. But Venya's drinking
gets out of control on the train, and Petushki seems to lie
increasingly beyond his grasp. Funny and sad, Yerofeev's
alcohol-soaked story of a man on a train perfectly captures Soviet
society on the brink of doom: exhausted, corrupt and heading into
the night in sodden dignity. 'A dark and hilarious work cocktailing
the satire of Gogol with the gutter-level eye of Bukowski and the
menace and nightmare vision of Genet.' Time Out Moscow Stations --
the only novel published by the Russian writer Venedikt Yerofeev --
was written in 1969 and existed first only amongst samizdat
circles, as a typed manuscript passed hand to hand by readers in
Soviet Russia. It was first published officially in the magazine
Sobriety and Culture in 1989. This translation was first published
by Faber in 1997.
An account of the cultured alcoholic and self-mocking intellectual
Yerofeev's heroic odyssey from Moscow to neighbouring Petushki. The
production successfully transferred to the West End (1995), where
Tom Courtenay's performance and the play received much acclaim.
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