This exuberant collection of stories is subversive in the extreme: unflinching in its mockery of death, life, love and sex, it explores each with a ferocious and rebellious humour, and reflects Erofeyev's reputation as one of the most exciting and co...
Presents a definitive collection of short fiction, originally written between 1978 and 1990, by one of Russia's most controversial avant-garde authors that capture the death throes of the Soviet Union and the author's rebellion against Soviet values....
The novel Good Stalin is inspired by Erofeev's experience growing up amidst the Soviet political hierarchy. His father, a staunch Stalinist who has dedicated his life and soul to the party, begins as Stalin's personal interpreter, and rises rapidly t...