Peltse and Pentameron
Original title: Peltse and Pentameron (Writings from an Unbound Europe)
Translated by Halyna Hryn earliest edition we have, 1996 Northwestern University Press, 1996 hardcover 198 pages
In these two novellas, Volodymyr Dibrova - one of the best prose writers in Ukraine today - tells the story of how the Soviet system was sustained by individuals who never truly chose to support it but simply lacked the courage to oppose it. Peltse portrays the formation of an average apparatchik. Both funny and alarming, the novella provides an incisive psychological portrait of an individual trapped in a system he...
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