A School for Fools

1977 Multiple personality

Author : Саша Соколов
Release : 1977
Genre : Multiple personality
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Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A School for Fools written by Саша Соколов. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sokolov's "School for Fools" is a network of memories of a schizophrenic raised on Russian and Western cultural traditions. This child/man becomes a prophet, causing individuals to question their identity and their place.

A School for Fools

2015-11-17 Fiction

Author : Sasha Sokolov
Release : 2015-11-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 467/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book A School for Fools written by Sasha Sokolov. This book was released on 2015-11-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.”

Between Dog & Wolf

2016-12-06 Fiction

Author : Sasha Sokolov
Release : 2016-12-06
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Between Dog & Wolf written by Sasha Sokolov. This book was released on 2016-12-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “intricate and rewarding” novel by the renowned author of A School for Fools is “a Russian Finnegan’s Wake” finally available in English translation (Vanity Fair). One of contemporary Russia’s greatest novelists, Sasha Sokolov is celebrated for his experimental, verbally playful prose. Written in 1980, his novel Between Dog and Wolf has long been considered impossible to translate because of its complex puns, rhymes, and neologisms. But in this acclaimed translation, Alexander Boguslawski has achieved “a masterful feat…remarkably faithful to the subtleties of Sokolov's language” (Olga Matich, University of California, Berkeley). Alternating between the voices of an old, one-legged knife-sharpener, a game warden who writes poetry, and Sokolov himself, this language-driven novel unfolds a story of life on the upper Volga River, in which time, characters, and death all prove unstable. The one constant is the Russian landscape, where the Volga is a more-crossable River Styx, especially when it freezes in winter.

Ship of Fools

2015-04-28 Fiction

Author : Katherine Anne Porter
Release : 2015-04-28
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 535/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ship of Fools written by Katherine Anne Porter. This book was released on 2015-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “dazzling” National Book Award finalist set aboard an ocean liner in 1931 reflects the passions and prejudices that sparked World War II (San Francisco Chronicle). August 1931. An ocean liner bound for Germany sets out from the Mexican port city of Veracruz. The ship’s first-class passengers include an idealistic young American painter and her lover; a Spanish dance troupe with a sideline in larceny; an elderly German couple and their fat, seasick bulldog; and a boisterous band of Cuban medical students. As the Vera journeys across the Atlantic, the incidents and intrigues of several dozen passengers and crew members come into razor-sharp focus. The result is a richly drawn portrait of the human condition in all its complexity and a mesmerizing snapshot of a world drifting toward disaster. Written over a span of twenty years and based on the diary Katherine Anne Porter kept during a similar ocean voyage, Ship of Fools was the bestselling novel of 1962 and the inspiration for an Academy Award–winning film starring Vivien Leigh. It is a masterpiece of American literature as captivating today as when it was first published more than a half century ago. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Katherine Anne Porter, including rare photos from the University of Maryland Libraries.

Ship of Fools

2001 Fiction

Author : Richard Paul Russo
Release : 2001
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Ship of Fools written by Richard Paul Russo. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A science fiction novel about a spaceship that has wandering in space for many years.

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