num_pages: 144
description: Leonid Dobychin's The Town of N, an unrecognized masterpiece of the Soviet 1930s, virtually vanished, together with its author, following its publication in 1935 and the subsequent vilification of Dobychin by Leningrad's cultural authorities. It portrays a fallen provincial world reminiscent of the town of N found in Gogol's Dead Souls, a place populated with characters who are petty, grasping, perfidious, and cruel, quite unlike the positive heroes of socialist realist novels.
language: English
title: The Town of N
titlecomplete: The Town of N (European Classics)
genres: Fiction, Coming Of Age, Literature, Novels, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Russia
ratings_count: 236
publisher: Northwestern University Press