![]() Books like these ensure the past is not forgotten.The quality of life depicted in The Case of Comrade Tulayev showed why the Stalinist monolith could not endure. These novels recreate the feel of daily existence years ago, animate the history texts, and give readers an irreplaceable personal perspective. It is a protest novel no less significant and no more dated than Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. ![]() ![]() Tulayev is infused with mysticism it is a work of cosmic longing, as if Serge is turning to the eternity of the universe itself to avoid the utter despair right in front of his face. The Case of Comrade Tulayev is gritty and rough, saturated in the squalor of Moscow life but it also pulses with lyrical flights that take us up into the stars, which represent for Serge the regenerative, transformative moments the History promises but has yet to deliver. The brilliance of his novel utterly ineluctable as it sweeps across 1930's Europe from the gulags to the Kremlin, to Paris and to Barcelona. One of the great 20th-Century Russian novels.there are extraordinary passages of natural description, a beauty that defies what takes place within it. ![]()
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