Homer and Langley
8 hrs. 0 min.
Language
Russian
Author
E.L. Doctorow
Author
E.L. Doctorow
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Narrator
Mikhail Roslyakov
Description
The novel “Homer and Langley” is a kind of literary experiment. The novel’s heroes—brothers Homer and Langley—had real-life prototypes: the Collier brothers, whose story once caused quite a stir in America. The brothers voluntarily rejected the blessings of civilization, became voluntary recluses, and turned their own home into a dump—collecting trash became their pathological obsession.
It might seem like a story for tabloid media. But Doctorow—who, according to him, became interested in the story even when he was a teenager—managed to turn it into a novel about love: the love of two brothers who are needed by no one except each other, and who were so frightened by the surrounding reality, by all the horrors of the twentieth century, that they didn’t want to live in the “big world,” instead building their own world with no place for outsiders.
It might seem like a story for tabloid media. But Doctorow—who, according to him, became interested in the story even when he was a teenager—managed to turn it into a novel about love: the love of two brothers who are needed by no one except each other, and who were so frightened by the surrounding reality, by all the horrors of the twentieth century, that they didn’t want to live in the “big world,” instead building their own world with no place for outsiders.
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