Goat Song

Two novels by one of the Soviet Union''s most inventive writers, written in the tradition of Gogol and Dostoyevsky but with a twentieth-century, modernist edge. Konstantin Vaginov was an early and exemplary figure of Soviet modernist writing in all its agonized and glorious contradictions. Born into an educated middle-class family at the turn of the century, Vaginov came of age with the Bolshevik revolution. His novels of the late 1920s and early 1930s are daringly experimental and tragically nostalgic, mourning the irrevocable loss of prerevolutionary intellectual culture with mercilessly ironic prose. Hopelessly adrift in the brave new Soviet world, Vaginov’s protagonists attempt to conjure the recent and distant past by stockpiling old books and songs, vulgar baubles and bad jokes, newspaper clippings, coins, and graffiti. This volume contains two novels. The first, The second novel, NYRB Classics will also publish Vaginov’s final novels,

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• Authors: Polina Barskova, Geoff Cebula, Ainsley Morse, Eugene Ostashevsky, Konstantin Vaginov
• Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.06.2025
• EAN: 9781681378886
• ISBN: 978-1-68137-888-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 202 mm x 21 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature