The Exchange & Other StoriesNorthwestern University Press, 2002 - 192 pagina's Yury Trifonov, one of the preeminent Russian writers of the twentieth century, took a turn toward the controversial-and a leap toward greatness-with the publication of the two novellas included in this collection. "The Exchange" and "The Long Goodbye," part of the "Moscow trilogy" that established Trifonov's reputation, are remarkable for their depiction of the complex dilemmas and compromises of Russian life after the Second World War. These works, along with the two short stories "Games at Dusk" and "A Short Stay in the Torture Chamber," detail the moral and spiritual decline in Russia that resulted from the growing distance between the theoretical idealism of the Soviet state and the actual materialism and careerism that increasingly marked Russian society. While immersing readers in the social milieus of his characters, and in the specifics of their days, Trifonov finds and examines the precise moment when a person takes a wrong turn in life, the moment of moral betrayal. Whether the moment occurs in a woman's plot to obtain better living quarters by taking in her dying mother-in-law or in the corruption of love and talent by ambition in an affair between an actress and a writer, Trifonov brings the clashes between different generations, cultural backgrounds, ideals, and realities to nuanced, disturbing, and memorable life. |
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Pagina 45
... Ivan Vasilievich brought the workers , and in a week the repair was finished . The heirs of the Red partisans were very afraid that Kalugin , offended , would quit the settlement , leaving them at the mercy of fate , but Ivan Vasilievich ...
... Ivan Vasilievich brought the workers , and in a week the repair was finished . The heirs of the Red partisans were very afraid that Kalugin , offended , would quit the settlement , leaving them at the mercy of fate , but Ivan Vasilievich ...
Pagina 46
... Ivan Vasilievich really was a powerful man . His main strength was his connections , old acquaintances . In six months he had put in a phone at the Pavlinovo dacha . Ivan Vasilievich was a tanner by profes- sion , he had begun with a ...
... Ivan Vasilievich really was a powerful man . His main strength was his connections , old acquaintances . In six months he had put in a phone at the Pavlinovo dacha . Ivan Vasilievich was a tanner by profes- sion , he had begun with a ...
Pagina 59
... Ivan Vasilievich hadn't called Prusakov . Then he went to see Prusakov him- self in an official car . Prusakov was holding the job for someone else , but Ivan Vasilievich pressed and Prusakov agreed . In the end it wasn't Lyovka's ...
... Ivan Vasilievich hadn't called Prusakov . Then he went to see Prusakov him- self in an official car . Prusakov was holding the job for someone else , but Ivan Vasilievich pressed and Prusakov agreed . In the end it wasn't Lyovka's ...
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction | 7 |
The Exchange | 17 |
The Long Goodbye | 71 |
Copyright | |
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