Death of a prototype : the portrait / Victor Beilis ; translated from the Russian and with an introduction and afterword by Leo Shtutin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Beĭlis, V. A. (Viktor Aleksandrovich), author.

Contributor:

Shtutin, Leo, translator.

Standardized Title:

Smert prototipa. English

Language:

English

Russian

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

x, 229 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Portrait

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, [2017]

Summary:

"This is the first work by Victor Beilis to make it into English since the single-volume publication in 2002 of a duo of novellas--"The Rehabilitation of Freud & Bakhtin and Others"(translated by Richard Grose). Much like the novellas that preceded it, "Death of a Prototype" is a hyper-allusive and self-consciously difficult work. Beilis engages closely with an entire spectrum of Russian and European cultural traditions, from classical antiquity to twentieth-century postmodernism. Structurally heterogeneous and fragmented with styles, genres and narrators succeeding one another at great speed, "Death of a Prototype" is also highly balanced and controlled, in some ways recalling a contrapuntal musical composition abounding in thematic echoes and correspondences. "Death of a Prototype" simultaneously challenges and rewards the reader, especially one attuned to fine-grain detail."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781783086726

1783086726

OCLC:

987376367