The Monkey Link: A Pilgrimage Novel
by Andrei Bitov
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In the waning years of the Soviet Empire, a poet traverses Russia from the Baltic to the Black Sea. Along the way he discusses man's place in the scheme of things with a number of people, including a very sober scientist and a very drunk painter. The novel explores man's relationship to God, animals, atomic power and art.Tags
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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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- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
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- 891.73 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction
- LCC
- PG3479.4 .I8 .M66 — 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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- English, Finnish, Russian
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