Another Life and the House on the Embankment by Iurii Trifonov

Another Life and the House on the Embankment by Iurii Trifonov

In Another Life, a woman suddenly widowed attempts to grasp the memory of her brilliant, erratic husband, and to understand their life together. The House on the Embankment is the story of an academic opportunist who rises to apparatchik but suffers the oppression of society, friends, and most of all his inability to make decisions.

These novellas are valuable works of literature, whose courage is only slowly revealed. . . Another Life is nearly flawless. . . . Trifonov may be seen as a Soviet Chekhov." --Richard Lourie, New York Times Book Review

"Trifonov is an old-fashioned psychologist, a master of characterization, an even greater master of the space and interaction between the individuals he observes in their craving for love, status, and self-respect." —The Nation

"Tolstoy, Turgenev, Trifonov . . . of all the Russian novelists of the past twenty years, Yuri Trifonov is one of the closest to those two eminent forebears." —New Leader

Yuri Trifonov (1925-81) is widely regarded as a major Russian writer of his generation. His literary career started early—he was published at twenty-two, and his novel Students won the 1951 Stalin Prize—but he spent much of the Thaw under Khrushchev in the state archives seeking to rehabilitate the memory of his father, who disappeared in the Great Purge of 1937 and was expunged from Party history. In the 1960s he began the series of works—The Exchange, Taking Stock, The Long Goodbye, Another Life, and The House on the Embankment—that brought him both attack and admiration in the Soviet Union, as well as an international reputation as an artist of the first rank. His Disappearance and Old Man are also available from Northwestern University Press.

Michael Glenny is a widely published author, editor, and translator. Among his translated works are Vladimir Nabokov's Mary: A Novel and numerous books by Mikhail Bulgakov, including the Everyman library edition of The Master and Margarita.

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ISBN 13	9780810115705
ISBN 10	0810115700
Title	Another Life and the House on the Embankment
Author	Iurii Trifonov
Series	European Classics Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Northwestern University Press
Year published	1999-12-30
Number of pages	350
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