Anton: A Novel
Autor Aleksandr Chudakov Traducere de Timothy D. Sergayen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2026
Set in a fictitious town in North Kazakhstan settled by political and ethnic exiles, this panoramic narrative follows the relationship between the titular character Anton, a Moscow historian of the vital “1960s generation,” and his grandfather, Leonid, a titan of physical and intellectual rigor who is now on the verge of death. As Anton contemplates the fading away of that once-powerful vitality, he lets his thoughts plunge deep into the past, presented in a series of fine-grained sketches, scattered reminiscences, and subtly interconnected episodes, back and forth from childhood to present day. The resulting novel is a “Soviet family Robinson”: the history of rugged and free-thinking intellectuals eking out a tolerable, even enviable homestead existence despite the difficulties of the Stalin years. One of the most vibrant works of literary fiction created since the fall of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Chudakov’s Anton is a testament to humanity's tenacity and tenderness.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798899480157
Pagini: 656
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Pagini: 656
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Northwestern University Press
Colecția Northwestern University Press
Notă biografică
ALEKSANDR CHUDAKOV (1938–2005) was an internationally renowned scholar of Russian literature. He taught at the Institute of World Literature and Moscow State University, as well as universities in Germany, the US, and South Korea. Anton, his only novel, was awarded a special Russian Booker Prize for Best Russian Novel of the 2000s.
TIMOTHY D. SERGAY is a translator and emeritus associate professor of Russian at the University at Albany.
TIMOTHY D. SERGAY is a translator and emeritus associate professor of Russian at the University at Albany.
Cuprins
Translator’s Introduction and Acknowledgments
Glossary of Terms and Names
Sources and Further Reading
Glossary of Terms and Names
- Arm-Wrestling in Chebachinsk
- Claimants to the Inheritance
- A Graduate of the Institute for Noble Young Ladies
- The Fourth Siberian Wave
- Klava and Valya
- Could You Reel in the Leviathan With a Fishing Rod?
- A Cavalier of the Great Gold Medal of the Grand Duke
- Vaska Eighty-Five, the Spelling Genius
- At the Bathhouse and Thereabouts
- Malchik the Coop Horse, Or Napoleon’s Tortoise
- Stubborn Oxen
- Twentieth-Century Subsistence Agriculture
- The Man Who Doesn’t Eat
- Diggers and Sailors
- The Widow’s Corner
- The UN
- The National Anthem of the Soviet Union
- The Fiancée of Count Stroganov
- Two Mining Engineers
- Gastello the Fearless Pilot
- “Those Evening Bells”
- The Lake
- Other Songs
- The Wreck of the Titanic
- Ilyich’s Pelmeni
- Acquired Traits Are Inherited
- Wolf Messing, Count Sheremétyev, Baron Ungern et al.
- The Sublime Is Revolution
- Dogs
- In Moscow
- Reunion With Friends
- Federau the Confectioner and Professor Riesenkampf the Oven- Setter
- Wear ’Em Forever
- Kazheka the Glazier
- Carp from the Bishop’s Pond
- Mama
- Father
- And Now They’ve All Died
Sources and Further Reading
Recenzii
“Aleksandr Chudakov is unique among the prominent critics of Anton Chekhov: he has a great deal of Chekhov's artistic creativity in his semi-fictional, semi-autobiographical recall of an unusual, almost exotic childhood and, like Chekhov, a gift for subtly enthralling the reader.” —Donald Rayfield, Queen Mary University of London
“Aleksandr Chudakov’s Anton, which was published in 2000, stands as perhaps the last great novel of the Soviet experience, though it is much more than that. With a scholar’s precision and an artist’s lightness of touch, Chudakov manages to resurrect not only the vanished world of his childhood in North Kazakhstan, but also a manner of writing—lucid yet nuanced, polyphonic yet harmonious—that also seemed lost to time when the novel first appeared. Timothy Sergay demonstrates the same precision and the same lightness of touch in his magnificent translation of an unforgettable book.” —Boris Dralyuk, The University of Tulsa
“Aleksandr Chudakov’s Anton, which was published in 2000, stands as perhaps the last great novel of the Soviet experience, though it is much more than that. With a scholar’s precision and an artist’s lightness of touch, Chudakov manages to resurrect not only the vanished world of his childhood in North Kazakhstan, but also a manner of writing—lucid yet nuanced, polyphonic yet harmonious—that also seemed lost to time when the novel first appeared. Timothy Sergay demonstrates the same precision and the same lightness of touch in his magnificent translation of an unforgettable book.” —Boris Dralyuk, The University of Tulsa
Descriere
Anton tells of a boyhood in rural North Kazakhstan under Stalin. A family of displaced intellectuals negotiates the Soviet system by wit and grit, in its remote places of Joycean “silence, exile, and cunning.”