UC- HC Life with an Idiot
Publisher: Viking Adult
Published: September 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780670854844
Subjects: General; Fiction / General; Fiction - General; Fiction
First sentence: EVEN BY the idiosyncratic standards of Russian literature, the literary debut proper of Victor Erofeyev (the author's preferred transliteration) was one of the more striking confirmations of the unofficial but popular Soviet self-definition that "we were born to turn Kafka into real life," exemplifying as it did the various phenomena of samizdat, tamizdat, censorship, repression, tragedy and farce that in some combination or other inform the relationship between state power, writer and reader in Russia.