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The Rehearsals (Paperback)
Vladimir Sharov; Translated by Oliver Ready
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Before and During (Paperback)
Vladimir Sharov; Translated by Oliver Ready
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Set in a dementia ward in Moscow in the long decades of late-Soviet
stagnation, Before and During sweeps the reader away from its
dismal setting into a series of fantastical excursions into the
Russian past. We meet Leo Tolstoy's twin brother, eaten by the
great writer in his mother's womb, only to be born as Tolstoy's
'son'; the philosopher-hermit Nikolai Fyodorov, who believed that
the common task of humanity was the physical resurrection of their
ancestors; a self-replicating Madame de Stael who, during her
second life, is carried through plague-ridden Russia in a glass
post-chaise and becomes Fyodorov's lover. (In her third and last
life, she becomes mother and lover to Stalin). Out of these
intoxicating, darkly comic fantasies - all described in a serious,
steady voice - Sharov seeks to retrieves the hidden connections and
hidden strivings of the Russian past, its wild, lustful quest for
justice, salvation and God. Cover design: Marie Lane. Russian
critics have described Vladimir Sharov's writing as an almagam of
Tolstoy, Doistoievski and Soljenitsyn."
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