The Old Man

By Yury Trifonov and Iuri Trifonov

Book Overview

The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident in the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; suggesting this idealism may have been tainted in the first place. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810115719
• ISBN13: 9780810115712
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 267 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"