A romance with cocaine / M. Ageyev ; transalted by Hugh Aplin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Agi︠e︡ev, M.

Series:

Modern voices

Standardized Title:

Roman s kokainom. English

Language:

English

Russian

Subjects (All):

Drug abuse--Fiction.

Drug abuse.

Soviet Union--History--Revolution, 1917-1921--Fiction.

Soviet Union.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

xx, 180 pages ; 19 cm.

Other Title:

Other English translation published under title: Novel with cocaine

Place of Publication:

London : Hesperus, 2008.

Language Note:

Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

The story of an adolescent's cocaine addiction, Novel with Cocaine relates the formative experiences of its antihero, Vadim, at school and with women before turning to the experience of drug abuse itself and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although it makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with cruelly addictive forms of thinking finds great resonance in the historical setting that forms its background, in which "our inborn feelings of humanity and justice" provoke "the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name."

Notes:

Originally published: New York: Dutton, 1984.

ISBN:

9781843914327

1843914328

OCLC:

85691828