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Venedikt Yerofeyev

Russian author

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Russian literature

  • Russia
    In Russia: The 20th century

    …leave the Soviet Union; and Venedikt Yerofeyev, whose grotesque latter-day picaresque Moscow-Petushki—published in a clandestine (samizdat) edition in 1968—is a minor classic.

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  • Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeyevich
    In Russian literature: Thaws and freezes

    …Pushkinsky dom (1978; Pushkin House), Venedikt Yerofeyev’s alcoholic, hallucinatory novel Moskva-Petushki (1977; Moscow to the End of the Line), Zinovyev’s Ziyayushchiye vysoty (1976; The Yawning Heights), and Voynovich’s satire Zhizn i neobychaynyye priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina (1975; The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin).

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