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One morning in 1949, Fan Fanych, alias Etcetera, is summoned from his Moscow apartment to KGB headquarters, where he is informed that he will be charged with a crime more heinous than any mere man could ever devise. Comrade Etcetera will be tried for "the vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow Zoo on a night between July 14, 1789 and January 9, 1905." Every moment in the nightmarish and hilarious account that follows lives up to the absurdity of this accusation. A seductive KGB agent attempts to convince Fan Fanych that he is a kangaroo; he finds himself in the dock at a spectacular show trial; is sent to a camp full of dedicated old Bolsheviks pathetically attempting to maintain their beliefs in the face of every new atrocity; encounters Hitler in Berlin and Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin at Yalta, where he is privileged to witness the famous conference as it was really conducted. Kangaroo is a savage, cleansing satire in which Yuz Aleshkovsky confronts the hypocrisy, the cruelty, and the tragic failure of the Soviet regime. His phantasmagoria is faithful to reality, for -- as Dostoevsky knew -- it is impossible for realism to portray a society whose corruption is literally fantastic.

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Fiction & related items Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

• Plný název: Kangaroo
• Autor: Yuz Aleshkovsky
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Brožovaná
• Počet stran: 278
• EAN: 9781564782168
• ISBN: 1564782166
• ID: 04813597
• Nakladatelství: Dalkey Archive Press
• Hmotnost: 362 g
• Rozměry: 215 × 141 × 19 mm
• Datum vydání: 18. March 1999

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