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The girl with the teddy bear / Viktor Domontovych ; translated with an introduction and notes by Steve Komarnyckyj.
Van Pelt Library PG3948.P42 D5813 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Domontovych, Viktor, 1894-1969, author.
- Series:
- Dedalus European classics
- Standardized Title:
- Divchyna z vedmedykom. English
- Language:
- English
- Ukrainian
- Subjects (All):
- Soviet Union--Social life and customs--Fiction.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--Fiction.
- Youth--Soviet Union--Fiction.
- Youth.
- Sexual freedom--Fiction.
- Sexual freedom.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Novels
- Translations
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 214 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Sawtry, Cambs : Dedalus, 2025.
- Summary:
- "The Girl with the Teddy Bear first published in 1928 and sometimes compared with Nabokov's Lolita or A Summer Affair by Ivan Klima was a groundbreaking novel and is now seen as a cult modernist classic. Ipolit is roasting barley grains to make ersatz coffee in his squalid Kyiv apartment one day in 1922 when he hears a knock at the door. A Red Army soldier he doesn't recognise is standing on his doorstep bringing a breath of the wild air of the Steppe. It turns out he is an old acquaintance whose dream of relaunching a mothballed factory leads Ipolit into an obsessive love affair with a disturbed young girl. It is as unflinchingly honest as D.H. Lawrence in its depiction of obsessive love and human intimacy and a remarkably courageous debut novel in a totalitarian society"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Translated from the Ukrainian.
- ISBN:
- 9781915568830
- 1915568838
- OCLC:
- 1516986670
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000325735
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