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This is a really interesting, distinctive short story collection, focusing on domestic life in late Soviet/post-Soviet Russia; most of the stories take place in and around cramped Moscow apartments. Several generations often live together with too little space and too little money, parents often sus...
Στον αντίποδα του [a:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|10420|Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1204127475p2/10420.jpg] ο οποίος έγραψε για συλλήψεις, ανακρίσεις, πολιτικές φυλακές και στρατόπεδα και του [a:Andrei Platonov|6454067|Andrei Platonov|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1431100723p2...
I'd love to do theory on these stories. I really loved this book despite my prejudice against the short story. Petrushevskaya is as bleak and troubling as the title of this collection suggests, but since her work is so firmly rooted in soviet history and culture she never seemed gratuitously grim. I...
I have to admit that I enjoyed the previous collection far more than this one. There is less magic realism in these stories, and a sense of wonder or charm seems to be missing. There are some very good ones such as “Milogram,” “Like Penelope,” “The Goddess Parka,” and “Father and Mother”. The last i...
The story referred to in the title is the one called "Revenge". It's aptly titled because it is about relationships.I love this book.I've only read one short story by Petrushevskaya in another collection. I picked this up over the weekend at a bookstore. I had heard good things about it.It's nice...
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