Sandro of Chegem
63 hrs. 55 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Fazil Iskander
Author
Fazil Iskander
Narrator
Vyacheslav Gerasimov
Narrator
Vyacheslav Gerasimov
Description
A novel (a cycle of novellas) by Fazil Iskander, which the author himself classified as a picaresque novel. The central work in the writer’s oeuvre.
The novel consists of 33 novellas arranged in three books. The novellas are not united by a single overarching plot line, but they tell the story of the main character Sandro Chegemsky, his relatives, and the inhabitants of Chegem. The novel also recounts the lives of many real historical figures: Joseph Stalin (in the novel he is often called “Big-Eared”/“Biggerhoned”), Nestor Lakoba, Noah Jordania, as well as fictional heroes and even entire fictional peoples (Endurites and Kangarooites). The main hero of the novella “Broadheaded” is a buffalo. The time span stretches from pre-revolutionary history to the Brezhnev era.
These stories portray the life of Chegem—its unhurried rural existence, love, hatred, revenge, and retribution. Most of them are told as a third-person narrative—recollections of an elderly Sandro, a man who has seen a great deal in his life, which he shares with an unnamed author of the novel. The genre variety is very broad: drama, fairy tale, parable, detective story.
The novel consists of 33 novellas arranged in three books. The novellas are not united by a single overarching plot line, but they tell the story of the main character Sandro Chegemsky, his relatives, and the inhabitants of Chegem. The novel also recounts the lives of many real historical figures: Joseph Stalin (in the novel he is often called “Big-Eared”/“Biggerhoned”), Nestor Lakoba, Noah Jordania, as well as fictional heroes and even entire fictional peoples (Endurites and Kangarooites). The main hero of the novella “Broadheaded” is a buffalo. The time span stretches from pre-revolutionary history to the Brezhnev era.
These stories portray the life of Chegem—its unhurried rural existence, love, hatred, revenge, and retribution. Most of them are told as a third-person narrative—recollections of an elderly Sandro, a man who has seen a great deal in his life, which he shares with an unnamed author of the novel. The genre variety is very broad: drama, fairy tale, parable, detective story.
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