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Pushkin House (American Literature (Dalkey Archive))
Pushkin House - American Literature Dalkey Archive Author:Andrei Bitov, Susan Brownsberger Novel. Bitov's renowned novel of 60's-era Soviet Russia, which the London Review of Books called "the most interesting work to come out of Soviet literature since the Twenties," appears in a new edition from Dalkey Archive. While on the surface its focus is an affair between the lovers Lyova and Faina, its true subject is the erosion of intelle... more »ctual life under Soviet rule. Drawing on literary influences from Dostoevsky to Nabokov, Bitov creates a satirical world that is at once subtle enough to have eluded government censorship, but powerful enough to mark him as "the most interesting still-Russian prose writer to come our way" - Kirkus.« less