The monkey comes for its skull.
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Yuri Dombrovsky (1909–1978) was a prose writer, poet, and a "great figure of the era" who went through several arrests and labor camps. He is the author of the novels "The Monkey Comes for Its Skull," "The Keeper of Antiquities," and "The Faculty of Unnecessary Things." Jean-Paul Sartre called him "the last classic of the 20th century." The novel "The Monkey Comes for Its Skull" was started by Yuri Dombrovsky in 1943, and in 1949, the text, along with its author, was arrested. It was only published after Stalin's death. The setting is a certain European country in the pre-war and post-war years, engulfed in fascism, where "everything living, rational, and thinking is declared subject to destruction." Hans Mezon, a journalist and the son of an anthropologist, tries to resist the catastrophe that, a few years after World War II, could plunge the world into darkness again. "The monkey's paw hangs over Europe... If things continue at the same pace, in a month, a living pithecanthropus will come to your institute's office for its skull, but in its hands, it will no longer have a club but a gun." And so the monkey comes, while three intellectuals sit in armchairs, smoking pipes and discussing the friendship between Schiller and Goethe...
Author:
Author:Dombrovsky Yuri Osipovich
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Fiction
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Dimensions:
Dimensions:22x14.5x2.3 cm
Series:
Series:Yuri Dombrovsky
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-158812-0
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