The Golovlyov Family
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780940322578 (0940322579)
Publish date: May 31st 2001
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 344
Edition language: English
At the end of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s biting satire, The Golovlyov Family, the narrator meditates on the random fates of families. Some reverse their declines and rebuild the family fortunes. Others are at the top of fortune’s wheel before precipitously falling to the bottom within generations....