Kangaroo
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0374180687 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly The Soviet authorities made a dangerous mistake when they drove Aleshkovsky into exile in 1979 for being desperately unhappy in his native land; since then he has been writing in the U.S. . He is accused of the "vicious rape and murder of an aged kangaroo in the Moscow zoo on a night between July 14, 1789 and January 9, 1905." In an acid-soaked monolog Fan addresses the KGB agent and beyond him the nation and the world, ranging up and down the dark corridors of Soviet history, allowing no one and nothingno prominent figure, no infamous event, no ideological pecu
Keir Colbo (keir@maelstrom.seos.uvic.ca) said Absurd and Hillarious!. An absurdist farce about the life of Fan Fanych, alias Etcetera; a thief in Stalinist Russia who is sent to the gulags for the supposed crime of raping an aging kangaroo in the Moscow Zoo. Narrated by the same criminal shortly after his release it begins with an elaborate interrogation and show trial where the prisoner begins to dou
And all this phantasmagoria is faithful to reality, foras Dostoevsky knewit is impossible for realism to portray a society whose corruption is literally fantastic.. 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: “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. Along the way, Fanych runs into seductive KGB agent (who’s bent on convincing Fanych that he’s a kangaroo), a camp full of old Bolsheviks desperately trying to believe in ruined revolutionary hopes, Adolf Hitler, and all three parties at the Yalta Conference (which didn’t, as it turns out, go quite like we’ve been told)