The Ape Comes for His Skull
16 hrs. 18 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Yury Dombrovsky
Author
Yury Dombrovsky
Narrator
Nikolay Koziy
Narrator
Nikolay Koziy
Description
Yuri Dombrovsky (1909–1978) is a prose writer, poet, “the great character of the era,” who went through several arrests and camps. He is the author of the novels “The Monkey Comes for Its Skull,” “The Keeper of Antiquities,” and “The Faculty of Useless Things.” Jean-Paul Sartre called him “the last classic of the 20th century.”
“The Monkey Comes for Its Skull” began as a novel by Yuri Dombrovsky in 1943; in 1949 the text, together with its author, was arrested, and it was published only after Stalin’s death. Time and place: some European country in prewar and postwar years, gripped by fascism, where “everything living, rational, and thinking is declared subject to destruction.” Hans Mezonier, a journalist and the son of an anthropologist scholar, after his father tries to resist the catastrophe that, a few years after World War II, can plunge the world back into darkness.
“‘The Monkey’s Paw has hung over Europe… If it keeps going at the same pace, then in a month a living Pithecanthropus will come to your institute for its skull—but in his hands it won’t be a club anymore, it’ll be a machine gun.’ And then the monkey comes—while three intelligentsia sit in armchairs, smoking pipes, and talk about the friendship of Schiller and Goethe… ”
“The Monkey Comes for Its Skull” began as a novel by Yuri Dombrovsky in 1943; in 1949 the text, together with its author, was arrested, and it was published only after Stalin’s death. Time and place: some European country in prewar and postwar years, gripped by fascism, where “everything living, rational, and thinking is declared subject to destruction.” Hans Mezonier, a journalist and the son of an anthropologist scholar, after his father tries to resist the catastrophe that, a few years after World War II, can plunge the world back into darkness.
“‘The Monkey’s Paw has hung over Europe… If it keeps going at the same pace, then in a month a living Pithecanthropus will come to your institute for its skull—but in his hands it won’t be a club anymore, it’ll be a machine gun.’ And then the monkey comes—while three intelligentsia sit in armchairs, smoking pipes, and talk about the friendship of Schiller and Goethe… ”
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