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- ISBN 9781783086726
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 127 x 204mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2017
- Publisher: Anthem Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Victor Beilis is a scholar of African folklore and author of numerous short stories and one novel.
Leo Shtutin is a translator of literary fiction from Russian.
