Incident at the Junction Station
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Incident at the Junction Station
14.99 €
Alexey Varlamov is a novelist, philologist, and researcher of 20th-century Russian literature, winner of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize and the Bolshaya Kniga (Big Book) award.
"Incident at the Junction Station" is not just a collection, but an entire continent of Russian life, where trains from different eras unexpectedly converge: from pre-revolutionary exile to the turbulent 1990s. A mute pilgrim and a corrupt journalist, a merchant's daughter deprived of her right to vote and a professor selling the Ghent Altarpiece for cheap passion—the heroes of this book never take a straight path. They wander through the labyrinths of unfamiliar cities, get lost in the steppe, freeze at random stops, and find shelter in unexpected places.
Varlamov writes about how terrifying and wonderful it is to be human in an era when "everything is confused, and there is neither faith nor unbelief." This is a piercing, almost tangible prose about the Russian character in the spirit of Leskov, Bunin and Shukshin, where the “connection” between people turns out to be the only real mystery.
"Incident at the Junction Station" is not just a collection, but an entire continent of Russian life, where trains from different eras unexpectedly converge: from pre-revolutionary exile to the turbulent 1990s. A mute pilgrim and a corrupt journalist, a merchant's daughter deprived of her right to vote and a professor selling the Ghent Altarpiece for cheap passion—the heroes of this book never take a straight path. They wander through the labyrinths of unfamiliar cities, get lost in the steppe, freeze at random stops, and find shelter in unexpected places.
Varlamov writes about how terrifying and wonderful it is to be human in an era when "everything is confused, and there is neither faith nor unbelief." This is a piercing, almost tangible prose about the Russian character in the spirit of Leskov, Bunin and Shukshin, where the “connection” between people turns out to be the only real mystery.
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