The Kukotsky Enigma
20 hrs. 31 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Ludmila Ulitskaya
Author
Ludmila Ulitskaya
Narrator
Marina Livanova
Narrator
Marina Livanova
Description
The protagonist of the audiobook is a genius doctor, sent from God. This opens up big novel possibilities for Ulytskaya, because a person in this profession every minute of work looks into the abyss: the boundary between health and illness—like the boundary between life and death, freedom and limitation. The novel takes place in the 40s–60s: the Stalin era with its defeat of genetics, the death of the tyrant, the Thaw, and the first jazz musicians. Bodiliness and the most crude physiology (the author is not afraid to go right to the very edge) are closely intertwined with the theme of fate—in the high, almost ancient-Greek sense of this definition.
What can be said about the main character? His heredity distinguished him not only by his devotion to medicine, but also by an unusual family trait of the men of the Kukoцьky family: they found their wives the way one receives military trophies. The great-grandfather married a captive Turk, the grandfather married a Circassian woman, the father married a Pole. According to family legends, all these women were like rash, reckless beauties… Pavel Alekseyevich Kukotsky also married a “military” marriage—unexpected and rushed…
What can be said about the main character? His heredity distinguished him not only by his devotion to medicine, but also by an unusual family trait of the men of the Kukoцьky family: they found their wives the way one receives military trophies. The great-grandfather married a captive Turk, the grandfather married a Circassian woman, the father married a Pole. According to family legends, all these women were like rash, reckless beauties… Pavel Alekseyevich Kukotsky also married a “military” marriage—unexpected and rushed…
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