The Old Man
by Yuri Trifonov
translated by Jacqueline Edwards and Mitchell Schneider
Northwestern University Press, 1999
Paper: 978-0-8101-1571-2
Library of Congress Classification PG3489.R5S713 1999
Dewey Decimal Classification 891.7344
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident in the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; suggesting this idealism may have been tainted in the first place. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance.
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