The Old Man

ISBN-13: 9780810115712 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 267 str.

Yuri Trifonov; Iurii Valentinovich Trifonov; Jacqueline Edwards

Opis

"The Old Man" veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident in the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; suggesting this idealism may have been tainted in the first place. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance.