by Yuri Trifonov
translated by Ellendea Proffer, Helen P. Burlingame, Jim Somers and Byron Lindsey
introduction by Ellendea Proffer and Ronald Meyer
Northwestern University Press, 2002
eISBN: 978-0-8101-2147-8 | Paper: 978-0-8101-1860-7
Library of Congress Classification PG3489.R5A26 2002
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.7344

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Yury Trifonov 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" depict the complex dilemmas and compromises of Russian life after World War II. These works, along with the 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 society.

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