Mythogenic Love of the Castes
27 hrs. 50 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Pavel Pepperstein
Author
Sergey Anufriev
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Narrator
Grigory Perel
Description
“Mythogenic Love of the Castes” is a postmodern novel by two contemporary Russian avant-garde artists: Pavel Peppershtein (Pivovarov) and Sergey Anufriev, founders and participants of the art group “Inspection of ‘Medical Hermeneutics’.” Published by Ad Marginem in 1999 (volume one) and 2002 (volume two). Built on references to fairy-tale Russian and foreign literature. Contains profanity.
The plot centers on events in the first years of the Great Patriotic War, 1941–45. Someone named Vladimir Petrovich Dunaev, a party organizer at a defense plant, during the evacuation of his enterprise deep into the rear and as a result of a tragic chain of circumstances, falls behind his own and literally ends up under German tanks. After surviving a severe nervous shock and receiving a serious concussion, Dunaev, deep in the night, comes to his senses in the middle of a battlefield and takes himself for a dead man. Taking shelter in the forest, he meets new—literally—fairy-tale friends there, who help him, no matter what, continue fighting fascism… Almost all of these friends are well-known characters from Russian folk folklore: Fox Patrikeevna, the Hut-on-Chicken-Legs, Baba Yaga, Koschei the Immortal, and so on.
The plot centers on events in the first years of the Great Patriotic War, 1941–45. Someone named Vladimir Petrovich Dunaev, a party organizer at a defense plant, during the evacuation of his enterprise deep into the rear and as a result of a tragic chain of circumstances, falls behind his own and literally ends up under German tanks. After surviving a severe nervous shock and receiving a serious concussion, Dunaev, deep in the night, comes to his senses in the middle of a battlefield and takes himself for a dead man. Taking shelter in the forest, he meets new—literally—fairy-tale friends there, who help him, no matter what, continue fighting fascism… Almost all of these friends are well-known characters from Russian folk folklore: Fox Patrikeevna, the Hut-on-Chicken-Legs, Baba Yaga, Koschei the Immortal, and so on.
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