Encounters with Lise and Other Stories

Download or read book Encounters with Lise and Other Stories written by Leonid Dobychin and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For Dobychin, early Soviet society was an absurdist wonderland. He was not anti-Soviet but trans-Soviet, practicing realism but looking at reality from jarring angles that expose the neophyte Soviet culture. A typical Dobychin hero participates in character-building sports, witnesses a funeral procession, watches a parade, attends the unveiling of a monument to a fallen Communist - and finally reflects at the end of the day that he almost met a pretty young nurse."--Jacket.