CBR 11 Bingo – Far and Away This is a 1928 post-Soviet revolution novel by two young writers. In a significant way, this novel is a lot like Don Quixote, which is not to say it’s a quixotic novel per se, but a novel in which a man who is blinded by illusions about the reality of the present is trying to live with his head in the past. We meet Ippolit Matveyovich, a fallen noble (post-revolution) who is scrabbling in the new regime for […]
Claudia Ivanovna was a silly old fool.
The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov