The novellas about middle-class Soviet life address marital discord, mid-life crisis, and soulless ambition within larger portraits of lives transformed to agonies of tension, frustration, and inarticulated rage...
Widely regarded as a major writer of his generation, Yuri Trifonov tolerated attack and admiration in the Soviet Union. His novellas are celebrated as being in the tradition of great nineteenth-century Russian writing. In "Another Life," a woman sudd...
Yury Trifonov took a turn toward the controversial, and a leap toward greatness, with the publication of the two novellas included in this collection. "The Exchange" and "The Long Goodbye" depict the complex dilemmas and compromises of Russian life a...