num_pages: 350
description: Widely regarded as a major writer of his generation, Yuri Trifonov tolerated attack and admiration in the Soviet Union. His novellas are celebrated as being in the tradition of great nineteenth-century Russian writing. In "Another Life," a woman suddenly widowed attempts to grasp the memory of her brilliant, erratic husband, and to understand their life together. "The House on the Embankment" is the story of an academic opportunist who rises to apparatchik but suffers the oppression of society, friends, and most of all his inability to make decisions.
language: English
title: Another Life and The House on the Embankment
titlecomplete: Another Life and The House on the Embankment
genres: 20th Century, Russia, Literature, Russian Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 150
publisher: Northwestern University Press