Man and His Surroundings
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
888719104Y
ISBN-13
9798887191041
Publisher
Academic Studies Press
Imprint
Academic Studies Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 18th, 2023
Print length
400 Pages
Weight
646 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.60 x 2.70 cms
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Man and His Surroundings is a collection of novellas that are unconnected by one plot, but which altogether constitute a piercing examination of Soviet and post-Soviet culture. The novellas are hilarious and poignant, satirical and philosophical, and they impart a better intuitive understanding of the Soviet cultural heritage and mindset.
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.
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