Immortal Love: Stories
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Book Overview
Born in Moscow in 1938 at the height of Stalinist terror, Ludmilla Petrushevkaya's writing reflects the moral despair and stifling conditions that were part of the fabric of existence under Communism.... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0679422579
ISBN13:9780679422570
Release Date:March 1996
Publisher:Pantheon Books
Length:348 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.1" x 4.6" x 7.5"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Classic stories, immaculately translated.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Petrushevskaya has referred to Russia as "a land of female Homers". She presumably means two things: that everyday life in Russia is an epic journey in itself, and that Russian women have a particular gift for telling their stories.Petrushevskaya herself has an extraordinary sense of the importance of story-telling. These stories are not simply stories of everyday life in Russia during the seventies and eighties; they are stories about the importance of the stories we are all constantly telling: stories we tell in order to survive or to help others survive, stories we make up to protect ourselves from truth, stories we make up to protect others from truth, apparently banal stories that fail to conceal tragedy...
amazing!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
I can only say it left me bewitched. It is an amazing and very unique collection of stories by a wonderful writer. I take my hat off!
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