Novel with Cocaine - Softcover

Ageyev

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810109980 ISBN 13: 9780810109988

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1991

Synopsis

A rediscovered Russian masterpiece about seduction, drug addiction, adolescence, and the 1917 revolution, by a mysterious pseudonymous author. The story of the young addict Maslennikov's descent into the maelstrom is also a metaphor for the violent purification of the November revolution.

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Review:

"Accomplished writing."
--"Publishers Weekly"

"Accomplished writing."
"Publishers Weekly""

"Fascinating . . . Reminiscent of Nabokov's eccentric precision." --John Updike
"Accomplished writing."
--Publishers Weekly

"Accomplished writing."

--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

M. Ageyev is a pseudonym. Following the publication of Novel with Cocaine in a Paris-based Russian emigre journal in the early 1930s, the author, then living in Istanbul, sent a passport and a short story to a friend in Paris. The short story was published, the passport lost. Nobody has ever identified the author. Michael Henry Heim, winner of the 1998 PEN Center USA West Translation Award for A Bohemian Youth by Josef Hirsal(Northwestern, 1997), is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. His other translations for Northwestern University Press include Dubravka Ugresic's Fording the Stream of Consciousness and Felix Roziner's A Certain Finkelmeyer.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0810109980
• ISBN 13: 9780810109988
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 204