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1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 224 Seiten)
ISBN:
9780231546416
Serie:
Russian library
Originaltitel:
Bessmertnyĭ
Inhalt:
In the chaos of early-1990s Russia, the wife and stepdaughter of a paralyzed veteran conceal the Soviet Union's collapse from him in order to keep him-and his pension-alive until it turns out the tough old man has other plans. Olga Slavnikova's The Man Who Couldn't Die tells the story of how two women try to prolong a life-and the means and meaning of their own lives-by creating a world that doesn't change, a Soviet Union that never crumbled.After her stepfather's stroke, Marina hangs Brezhnev's portrait on the wall, edits the Pravda articles read to him, and uses her media connections to cobble together entire newscasts of events that never happened. Meanwhile, her mother, Nina Alexandrovna, can barely navigate the bewildering new world outside, especially in comparison to the blunt reality of her uncommunicative husband. As Marina is caught up in a local election campaign that gets out of hand, Nina discovers that her husband is conspiring as well-to kill himself and put an end to the charade. Masterfully translated by Marian Schwartz, The Man Who Couldn't Die is a darkly playful vision of the lost Soviet past and the madness of the post-Soviet world that uses Russia's modern history as a backdrop for an inquiry into larger metaphysical questions.
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In English
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ISBN 9780231185943
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ISBN 9780231185950
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Slavnikova, Olʹga The man who couldn't die New York : Columbia University Press, 2018 ISBN 9780231185943
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ISBN 9780231185950
Sprache:
Englisch
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