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Yury Trifonov took a turn toward the controversial, and a leap toward greatness, with the publication of the two novellas included in this collection. "The Exchange" and "The Long Goodbye" depict the complex dilemmas and compromises of Russian life a...
Widely regarded as a major writer of his generation, Yuri Trifonov tolerated attack and admiration in the Soviet Union. His novellas are celebrated as being in the tradition of great nineteenth-century Russian writing. In "Another Life," a woman sudd...
The novellas about middle-class Soviet life address marital discord, mid-life crisis, and soulless ambition within larger portraits of lives transformed to agonies of tension, frustration, and inarticulated rage...