<p>These characters are caught in surreal situations which test their ability to retain their humanity. Makanin's world is one of deliberate ambiguity, where nothing, not even the story itself, is as it seems, and haunting imagery is used to appeal directly to a reader's subconscious. "Vladimir Makanin's name belongs at the top of any list of socialist, or now post-socialist, surrealists...The power of Mr. Makanin's fiction lies precisely in its ambiguity."--New York Times Book Review</p>

Escape Hatch & The Long Road Ahead: Two Novellas

Literature & Fiction

Vladimir Makanin

Literary

Ardis Publishers

<p>The hero of Baize-Covered Table undergoes a searching bureaucratic investigation, that staple of the old Soviet and even older Russian police state. With the naked intensity of personal nightmare, the hero visits and returns to the stark scene of his inquisition: the bare room, the table, the ever-present decanter, and behind the table those recurring phantoms, 'The Party Man,' 'The Young Wolf,' 'The Almost Pretty Woman,' 'The One Who Asks the Questions.'</p>

Baize-Covered Table with Decanter

Contemporary

UNKNO

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Vagrius

Underground (Ya Da Cagimizin Bir Kahramani)

Everest Yayınları

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