The Tragic Menagerie |
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| Author:
| Zinovieva-Annibal, Lydia |
| Translator:
| Costlow, Jane |
| Series title: | European Classics Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-1483-8 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 1999 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution,
The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a childhood of passionate affections and unsettling revelations. This fictionalized autobiography follows the tomboyish Vera, who counts among her friends bears, wolves, and a wild crane, as well as local peasant girls. Sent to a German boarding school and exiled from her kingdom, Vera turns into a demonic, disobedient student,...
More Description Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a childhood of passionate affections and unsettling revelations. This fictionalized autobiography follows the tomboyish Vera, who counts among her friends bears, wolves, and a wild crane, as well as local peasant girls. Sent to a German boarding school and exiled from her kingdom, Vera turns into a demonic, disobedient student, rejecting a life she finds constraining and artificial. Only when she returns to her natural world can her deeper compassionate and imaginative self emerge.