Walpurgis Night, or the Steps of the Commander (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Venedikt Erofeev

Yale University Press

Moscow to the End of the Line

Popular Library

<p>Venya is more interested in how much he and his colleagues can drink during the working day than in his job. Once he is fired, he spends the last of his money on booze and sets off on a train journey to visit beautiful, picturesque, utopian Petushki, where his beloved and child are waiting for him. But Venya's drinking gets out of control on the train, and Petushki seems to lie increasingly beyond his grasp. Funny and sad, Yerofeev's alcohol-soaked story of a man on a train perfectly captures Soviet society on the brink of doom: exhausted, corrupt and heading into the night in sodden dignity.'A dark and hilarious work cocktailing the satire of Gogol with the gutter-level eye of Bukowski and the menace and nightmare vision of Genet.' Time OutMoscow Stations -- the only novel published by the Russian writer Venedikt Yerofeev -- was written in 1969 and existed first only amongst samizdat circles, as a typed manuscript passed hand to hand by readers in Soviet Russia. It was first published officially in the magazine Sobriety and Culture in 1989. This translation was first published by Faber in 1997.</p>

Moscow Stations

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Faber&Faber

In this classic of Russian humor and social commentary, a fired cable fitter goes on a binge and hopes a train to Petushki (where his "most beloved of trollops" awaits). On the way he bestows upon angels, fellow passengers, and the world at large a magnificent monologue on alcohol, politics, society, alcohol, philosophy, the pains of love, and, of course, alcohol.

Moscow to the end of the line

World Literature

Taplinger Pub. Co

<p>Title: Moscow to the End of the Line Binding: Paperback Author: VenediktErofeev Publisher: NorthwesternUniversityPress</p>

History & Criticism

Northwestern University Press

Moskva-Petushki

Vagrius

Moskva-Petushki: Poema

Nevskaia kniga

Moskva - Petushki. S kommentariyami Eduarda Vlasova

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