“House on the Embankment” is one of the sharpest and most topical works of the 20th century. In the novella, there is a profound analysis of the nature of fear and people’s degradation under the yoke of a totalitarian system.
A genuine interest in a person—an effort to show them in the most dramatic events of their life and at turning points in history—places Yuri Trifonov’s novella among the best works of world literature.