The forthcoming Moscow Circles, though billed as a first US appearance, is the same book--in a different translation, one that is in some ways inferior to Tjalsma's: less conversational, more British than American. (Dorrell does provide a few pages of useful commentary.)Author: Kirkus Reviews. · Erofeev was born in , far above the Arctic Circle in the Murmansk region of Russia. His father was a was a stationmaster who fell afoul of Stalin’s nefarious regime, serving time in a series of gulags on the charge of ‘disseminating anti-Soviet propaganda’.Author: Ruth Moore. Venichka Erofeev (Venya), cultured alcoholic, self-mocking intellectual, regales us with an account of his 'heroic' odyssey from Moscow to provincial Petushki. Stories of his rich, turbulent inner life abound as he staggers through Brezhnev's Moscow and encounters dangerous, eccentric and often hilarious strangers on a train. His journey ends when fate cruelly intervenes - curtailing the vivid panorama of Russian life .
Moscow Circles-Venedikt Erofeev Our Woman in Moscow-Beatriz Williams "A captivating Cold War page-turner." — Real Simple The New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives returns with a gripping and profoundly human story of Cold War espionage and family devotion. Venedikt Vasilyevich Erofeev (Венеди́кт Васи́льевич Ерофе́ев), was a Russian writer. He managed to enter the philology department of the Moscow State University but was expelled from the University after a year and a half because he did not attend compulsory military training. Welcome to the wild, unhinged, mental, and quite brilliant world of Venedikt Yerofeyev's Moscow Stations. The Russian writer (whose surname is also written as Erofeyev, Yerofeev, and Erofeev - there seems to be a tremendous amount of confusion about this) penned it in , but it was first published 20 years later as a warning to the population about heavy drinking.
Moscow-Petushki, also known as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations and Moscow Circles is a pseudo-autobiographical prose poem about a cable fitter, intellectual and alcoholic – Venichka – who was fired from his job, for the graphs creation of his and his coworkers’ productivity against the amount of alcohol they intake. After he is fired, Venichka decided to travel from Moscow to the kilometer (77 miles) away town – Petushki, to visit his lover and a child. Moscow-Petushki, also published as Moscow to the End of the Line, Moscow Stations, and Moscow Circles, is a pseudo-autobiographical postmodernist prose poem by Russian writer and satirist Venedikt Yerofeyev. Written between 19and passed around in samizdat, it was first published in in Israel and later, in , in Paris. It was published in the Soviet Union only in , during the perestroika era of Soviet history, in the literary almanac Vest' and in the magazine Abstinence an. Seventy-five years ago today, Russia's most mysterious writer and author of the prose poem “Moscow-Petushki,” Venedikt Erofeev, was born north of the Arctic Circle. It is widely believed that.
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