Matisse

11 hrs. 4 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Alexander Ilichevsky

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

“Matisse” is a novel written from the material of contemporary life (the wrecked everyday reality of perestroika and post-perestroika Moscow, towns and settlements near Moscow, as well as the Caucasus, the Caspian, Central Russia, etc.) with a broad range of human types and life situations (tramps, graduate students, businessmen, scientists, prostitutes; residents of a Dagestani village and blind people working in the assembly shop of the television factory in the town of Aleksandrov; intellectuals and vagrants lapsing into “cretinism”); and as the main characters, whose images structure the narrative, there are two homeless men and a mathematician.

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