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A School for Fools

A School for Fools

Sokolov, Sasha
Boguslawski, Alexander

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1590178467
ISBN13: 9781590178461
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Nov 17 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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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