A Patron's Joke. A Dozen Knives in the Back of the Revolution
5 hrs. 45 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Arkadiy Averchenko
Author
Arkadiy Averchenko
Narrator
Arkady Bukhmin
Narrator
Arkady Bukhmin
Description
Arkady Averchenko is a well-known prose writer and playwright of the early twentieth century; thanks to his sharp, satirical pen, he became famous as the “King of Laughter.”
Averchenko viewed the fall of the monarchy positively, but he did not accept the October Revolution, which he saw as “a half-drunk lout from the highway,” and it is precisely that kind of revolution that he wanted to stab with a dozen knives.
“Dozen Knives in the Back” is mainly devoted to the complicated post-revolutionary period, the lives of Russian philistines trying to avoid the upheavals of the era. In his work, Averchenko pushes the situation to absurdity, yet at the core of his most ridiculous and funny scenarios is always the absurd reality of Russia from that period.
Averchenko’s only novel, “The Joke of a Patron,” is a humorous story from the life of Petersburg’s literary bohemia. The heroes of the novel are a kind of creative community that decides to play a prank on a young poet and his first naive poem. It’s both a funny and, at the same time, sad story about how one “innocent” joke changed the lives of several people.
Averchenko viewed the fall of the monarchy positively, but he did not accept the October Revolution, which he saw as “a half-drunk lout from the highway,” and it is precisely that kind of revolution that he wanted to stab with a dozen knives.
“Dozen Knives in the Back” is mainly devoted to the complicated post-revolutionary period, the lives of Russian philistines trying to avoid the upheavals of the era. In his work, Averchenko pushes the situation to absurdity, yet at the core of his most ridiculous and funny scenarios is always the absurd reality of Russia from that period.
Averchenko’s only novel, “The Joke of a Patron,” is a humorous story from the life of Petersburg’s literary bohemia. The heroes of the novel are a kind of creative community that decides to play a prank on a young poet and his first naive poem. It’s both a funny and, at the same time, sad story about how one “innocent” joke changed the lives of several people.
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