A School for Fools by Sokolov, Sasha

A School for Fools (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590178461)

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A School for Fools by Sokolov, Sasha

A School for Fools

$17.95
A School for Fools by Sokolov, Sasha

A School for Fools

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two "unreliable" narrators: the young man who is a student at the "school for fools" and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book."

Author: Sasha Sokolov
ISBN-10: 1590178467
ISBN-13: 9781590178461
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/17/2015
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/23/2015
By Sasha Sokolov
By Sasha Sokolov
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Sasha Sokolov was born in Canada in 1943. His father, a high-ranking Soviet diplomat, was deported from Canada as a spy in 1946, and Sokolov grew up in the Soviet Union, where he studied journalism at Moscow State University. He made repeated attempts to escape from the USSR, for which he was briefly imprisoned, but after international protests, he was finally permitted to leave the country in 1975. That same year the manuscript of A School for Fools, his first novel, was smuggled out of the Soviet Union and published in the West to great acclaim. The recipient of the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize in 1981 and of the Pushkin Prize for literature in 1996, Sokolov is the author of the novels Astrophobia and Between Dog and Wolf and of a book of essays, In the House of the Hanged.

Alexander Boguslawski is a professor of Russian studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

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