A school for fools
(Book)
Author
Contributors
Boguslawski, Alexander Prus, Translator
Published
New York : New York Review Books, 2015.
Status
Central - Adult Fiction
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Description
By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two “unreliable” narrators: the young man who is a student at the “school for fools” and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, “an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.”
More Details
Format
Book
Physical Desc
ix, 191 pages ; 21 cm
Street Date
1511
Language
English
ISBN
9781590178461 , 1590178467
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Description
By turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, A School for Fools confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two "unreliable" narrators: the young man who is a student at the "school for fools" and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, "an enchanting, tragic, and touching book."
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sokolov, S., & Boguslawski, A. P. (2015). A school for fools . New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sokolov, Sasha, 1943- and Alexander Prus, Boguslawski. 2015. A School for Fools. New York: New York Review Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sokolov, Sasha, 1943- and Alexander Prus, Boguslawski. A School for Fools New York: New York Review Books, 2015.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Sokolov, S. and Boguslawski, A. P. (2015). A school for fools. New York: New York Review Books.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sokolov, Sasha, and Alexander Prus Boguslawski. A School for Fools New York Review Books, 2015.
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