Metro Stop Dostoevsky

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. A Russian American writer catapults herself into the maelstrom of Russian life at a time of seismic change for both The daughter of Russian migrs, Ingrid Bengis grew up wondering whether she was American or, deep down, greally Russian.h In 1991, navely in love with Russia and Russian literature, she settled in St. Petersburg, where she was quickly immersed in gcatastroika,h a period of immense turmoil that mirrored her own increasingly complex and contradictory experience. Bengisfs account of her involvement with Russia is heightened by her involvement with B, a Russian whose collapsing marriage, paralleling the collapse of the Soviet Union, produces a situation in which ganything could happen.h Their relationship reflects the social tumult, as well as the sometimes dangerous consequences of American ggood intentions.h As Bengis takes part in Russian life-becoming a reluctant entrepreneur, undergoing surgery in a St. Petersburg hospital, descending into a coal mine-she becomes increasingly aware of its Dostoevskian duality, never more so than when she meets the impoverished, importuning great-great-granddaughter of the writer himself. Beneath the seismic shifting remains a centuries-old preoccuption with gthe big questionsh: tradition and progress, destiny and activism, skepticism and faith. With its elaborate pattern of digression and its eye for the revealing detail, Bengisfs account has the hypnotic intimacy of a late-night conversation in a Russian kitchen, where such questions are perpetu.

Product Info

ISBN: 0865476721

ISBN-13: 9780865476721

Publisher: North Point Press

Year: 2003

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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