Happy Moscow
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Author
Contributions
- Chandler, Robert, 1953- - Contributor
- Chandler, Elisabeth. - Contributor
Publication
2001 - Harvill, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
38,250 words, Guess
Page Count
153 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-10186046646X
- ISBN-139781860466465
- LibraryThing279815
- Library of Congress Control Number2003467181
- OCLC Control Number46808843
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL3762515M
Classifications
- DDC891.73/42
- LCCPG3476.P543 S313 2001
Description
"Moscow in the 1930s is the consummate symbol of the Soviet paradise, a fairy-tale capital where, in Stalin's words, "life has become better, life has become merrier". In Happy Moscow Platonov exposes the gulf between this premature triumphalism and the harsh reality of low living standards and even lower expectations. For in Stalin's ideal city there is no longer a place for those who do not fit the bright, shining image of the new men and women of the future. The heroine, Moscow Chestnova, is an Everywoman, both virgin and whore, who flits from man to man, fascinated by the brave new world supposedly taking shape around her. In a variety of styles ranging from the grotesque to the sentimental to the absurd, Platonov lays bare the ways in which language itself has been debased, even borrowing slogans from Stalin's own speeches for comic effect."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Fiction
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