Pushkin House
by Andrei Bitov
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No other contemporary novel provides such clear insight into the Russian mind and way of life as Andrei Bitov's Pushkin House. First published in the United States in 1987 and highly praised for its inventiveness, Pushkin House is a contemporary literary masterpiece. Though the novel's focus is a love affair between Lyova and Faina, the novel's true subject is an investigation of the corruption of Soviet intellectual life and history. Working within many of the confines imposed upon him show more during the Soviet regime, Bitov ingeniously draws upon Russian literary models, especially that of Nabokov, in order to parody and satirize the stifling society about him, as well as Russian literary tradition. show lessTags
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Andrei Georgievich Bitov was born in Leningrad, Russia on May 27, 1937. He held numerous jobs including stevedore and construction worker, before graduating from the Leningrad Mining Institute in 1962. He worked as a professional writer since the early 1960s. His works included Lessons of Armenia, Pushkin House, The Monkey Link, and The Symmetry show more Teacher. He died from heart disease on December 3, 2018 at the age of 81. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Pushkin House
- Original title
- Пушкинский дом
- Alternate titles
- Pushkinskii dom
- Original publication date
- 1978
- People/Characters
- Lyova Odoevtsev
- Epigraph
- This is what will be: we, too, will not be.
Pushkin, 1830
(Draft of an epigraph for 'The Belkin Tales')
Pushkin House! A name apart,
A name with meaning for the heart!
Blok, 1921 - Original language
- Russian
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 891.73 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction
- LCC
- PG3479.4 .I8 .P813 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Russian literature Individual authors and works 1961-2000
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- 13 — Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Russian, Spanish, Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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