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Bitov, Andrei
by The Monkey Link
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0374105782
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105785
- Seller
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About This Item
New York. 1995. Farrar Straus Giroux. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0374105782. Translated from the Russian by Susan Brownsberger. 373 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye. Jacket art courtesy of The Tirolean Folk-Art Museum, Innsbruck. keywords: Literature Translated Russia . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Andrei Bitov's first novel in almost a decade is a challenge to the form. Full of talk, philosophical speculation, and dark humor, The Monkey Link presents a highly original view of the world and of the former Soviet Union. Andrei Bitov wrote the three tales in the novel between 1971 and 1993, while the Soviet Union moved from peace to war to collapse. The first tale was published in Russia in 1976, but the second did not appear - and the third could never have been written - until after glasnost. As time flows through the novel, the changing fortunes of the author, the hero, the censor, and their country generate a very complex set of ironies. On the simplest level, The Monkey Link is a novel in three acts, a comedy of ideas. In the waning years of the Empire, a poet traverses Russia, from the Baltics to the capital, to the shores of the Black Sea. Along the way, he discusses man's place in the scheme of things with, among others, a very sober scientist and a very drunken landscape painter. He is harassed by the authorities, spends time on a movie set, and is an eyewitness to the August 1991 coup. Intricate in its structure but sweeping in its concerns, this exciting novel confirms Bitov's position as one of the most important writers in Russia today. inventory #24649 ISBN: 0374105782.
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- Bookseller
- Zeno's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 24649
- Title
- Bitov, Andrei
- Author
- The Monkey Link
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0374105782
- ISBN 13
- 9780374105785
- Publisher
- Farrar Straus & Giroux (T)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- This edition first published
- December 1994
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