Man and His Surroundings

Iskander, Fazil/ Iskander, Fazil/ Rojavin, Alexander (TRN)

Academic Studies Press（2023/05発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 400 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9798887191058
• DDC分類 891.7344

Full Description

Man and His Surroundings irreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the book's seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasmagorical account of what "Lenin" thought and did during the October Revolution of 1917 and how another revolution is imminent. In another novella, the narrator tells of a nationally renowned fencer as the fencer sits at a neighboring table, discussing the impossibility of equality on earth, while his son pesters him for ice cream. The novellas enrapture the reader with their humor and impart a better intuitive understanding of the Soviet cultural heritage and mindset.

Contents

Translator's Introduction

Instead of a Foreword

1. Lenin at the Amra

2. The Rapier

3. The Hunting Hawk

4. The Beauty of Norms, or a Boy Waits for a Man

5. The Light of the Twilight Youth

6. A Sea of Charisma

7. Palermo—New York

8. The Old Men's Bender on the Sea

9. Lenin and Uncle Sandro