Russian beauty

Author: Victor Yerofeyev Liu Wenfei
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This is the masterpiece of the renowned contemporary Russian writer Viktor Yerofeyev. The novel quickly gained fame upon its release and has been translated into over twenty foreign languages, becoming a classic work of modern and contemporary Russian literature. Written in the style of French New Novel and stream-of-consciousness, the novel narrates the experiences of a beautiful provincial Russian woman in Moscow, including outlandish plotlines such as running naked on an ancient battlefield and marrying the dead. On the level of "existence," it truthfully and profoundly reveals the inversion of goodness and evil, the subversion of the sublime and the base, conveying the playful, capricious, humble yet arrogant collective consciousness and emotions of society before a sudden upheaval. Like Rabelais' exaggeration and humor, and like Boccaccio's "smirk and lecherous gaze," Viktor Yerofeyev's satire and mockery are equally a scalpel targeting rigid paradigms.