Subtitle: European Classics
Author: Trifonov, Yuri
Year: 2002
ISBN: 9780810118607.0
Pages: 192
Language: English
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publisher's city: St. Evanston
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The Exchange and Other Stories
€23.00
Yury Trifonov took a turn toward the controversial, and a leap toward greatness, with the publication of the two novellas included in this collection. “The Exchange” and “The Long Goodbye” depict the complex dilemmas and compromises of Russian life after World War II. These works, along with the short stories “Games at Dusk” and “A Short Stay in the Torture Chamber,” detail the moral and spiritual decline in Russia that resulted from the growing distance between the theoretical idealism of the Soviet state and the actual materialism and careerism that increasingly marked society.