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Viktor Erofeev. Piat' rek zhizni.(Book Review)

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From: World Literature Today
Date: 20031001
Author:Ziolkowski, Margaret

Viktor Erofeev. Piat' rek zhizni. Moscow. Eksmo. 2002. 240 pages. 95 r. ISBN 5-89517-022-6

VIKTOR EROFEEV is known for both his literary criticism and his fiction. As a scholar affiliated with the prestigious Gorky Institute of World Literature in Moscow, he published articles and books dealing with a wide variety of French and Russian writers and thinkers, including Fyodor Dostoevsky, Albert Camus, Nikolai Berdiaev, and Vasilii Rozanov. Erofeev's career as a fiction writer was marked from the beginning by controversy. As a participant in the Metropol' affair, in which two ...

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