To Kiss the Crocodile

Name: To Kiss the Crocodile
Brand: Overlook Press
SKU: 9781468301540
Price: 13.99 EUR
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★★★★★

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By (author): Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Crocodile is a great piece of satire, suppressed in the Soviet Union and largely ignored in the West. This wild lampoon is vicious and satirical, dreamlike, and one of the funniest things that Dostoevsky ever wrote. During the Soviet period it was not published separately (and only in passing even in multi- volume academy editions). Dostoevsky's hatred of communism and socialism is rarely as direct and apparent as in this tale. He ridicules the new men, making Chemyshevsky a laughing-stock by having his think-alike get swallowed by a crocodile - only to survive and preach socialist theories from the beast's belly. See more

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Weight: 95g
Dimensions: 129 x 178mm
Publication Date: 29 Jan 2013
Publisher: Overlook Press
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781468301540

About Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-1881) is a renowned fiction writer essayist and philosopher. He was born in Moscow and studied from 1838 to 1843 at the Military Engineering College at St. Petersburg. Following the success of his debut novel Poor Folk in 1846 he was arrested and sentenced to death (later commuted to exile) in 1849 for participating in the Petrashevsky Circle. Among his most important works are Notes from the Underground Crime and Punishment The Idiot The Possessed and The Brothers Karamazov. S. D. Cioran is Professor Emeritus of Russian literature at McMaster University. His other translations include Sologub's The Petty Demon and Saltykov's The Golovlyov Family both available from Ardis.