Man and His Surroundings by Fazil Iskander, Fazil Iskander, A... - 9798887191041

Academic Studies Press

Man and His SurroundingsAuthor(s): Fazil Iskander, Fazil Iskander, Alexander Rojavin\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Academic Studies Press, United States\nImprint: Academic Studies Press\nISBN-13: 9798887191041, 979-8887191041\nSynopsis\nMan and His Surroundingsirreverently explores Soviet and post-Soviet identity, politics, and history. In what Iskander himself calls the books seminal novella, the narrator meets a man who believes himself to be Lenin, thawed out after decades of cryogenic storage. The narrator endures a phantasmagorical account of what Lenin thought and did during the October Revolution of 1917 and how another revolution is imminent. In another novella, the narrator tells of a nationally renowned fencer as the fencer sits at a neighboring table, discussing the impossibility of equality on earth, while his son pesters him for ice cream. The novellas enrapture the reader with their humor and impart a better intuitive understanding of the Soviet cultural heritage and mi.