Goat Song

5 hrs. 31 min.

Classics

Language Russian

Author Vaginov Konstantin

Narrator Pavel Lomakin

Description

A landmark text of Russian literature in which ancient tragedy intertwines with Petersburg absurdity. Following the poet Misha Rotikov, his brother—an art historian, Kosta—and their whimsical circle, you’ll find yourself swept up in a maelstrom of lost bearings and grotesque “new” artistic searches.

“The Goat Song” is one of the key works of 20th-century Russian literature. This philosophically saturated novel-essay is a kind of key novel in which the crisis and inner contradictions of the era’s creative intelligentsia are reflected. The very title, translated literally from Ancient Greek, means “tragedy,” and the author subtly combines satire with symbolism, portraying Petersburg as a grotesque city inhabited by strange, almost caricature-like characters. Here Petersburg becomes an image of cultural collapse, turning into a space of chaos and the shattering of meanings… Through the stories of the Unknown Poet, the philosopher Tepetkin, and Maria Petrovna, as well as the Rotikov brothers, the reader watches as former cultural values fade and new forms of art emerge—often roughened, distorted, and tailored to the demands of the time.

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