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Victor Erofeyev, a giant of contemporary Russian literature, has been hailed as the heir to the long- lost Russian avant-garde. The son of a high-ranking former Soviet diplomat, Erofeyev rebelled against Soviet values, and his works were banned until the Gorbachev era. His first... read more
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- Shiryaev
- Vova
- Liza
- Erofeyev
- Anna
- Kolya
- Blinova
- Pavel
- Kruglitsky
- Zotov
- Ermolai Spiridonovich
- Skaftymov
- Spiridon Ermolaevich
- Nikolai
- Olympia
- Suzie
- Serafima Myauldna
- Bella Isaakovna
- Snakeeater
- Petrov
- Steve
- Mama
- Nina Lvovna
- Filonov
- Rozanov
- Yegor
- Natalya
- Berdyaev
- Fyodor
- Kristina
- Evgeny Ivanovich
- Strakhov
- Tatarinov
- Dorothea
- Mikhail
- Semyon
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EVEN BY the idiosyncratic standards of Russian literature, the literary debut proper of Victor Erofeyev (the author's preferred transliteration) was one of the more striking confirmations of the unofficial but popular Soviet self-definition that "we were born to turn Kafka into real life," exemplifying as it did the various phenomena of samizdat, tamizdat, censorship, repression, tragedy and farce that in some combination or other inform the relationship between state power, writer and reader in Russia.
Authors & Contributors edit
- V. V. Erofeev (Author)
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