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A curse on Dostoevsky / Atiq Rahimi ; translated from the French by Polly McLean.
- Title
- A curse on Dostoevsky / Atiq Rahimi ; translated from the French by Polly McLean.
- Author
- Rahimi, Atiq,
- Publication
- London : Chatto & Windus, 2013.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | PQ3979.3.R34 M3813 2013 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- McLean, Polly.
- Description
- 250 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Rassoul's world consists of little more than a squalid rented room - strewn with books by Dostoevsky, relics from his days as a student of Russian Literature at Leningrad - and his beloved fiancee Sophia, for whom he would do anything. So when he finds himself committing a murder, axe in hand, as if re-enacting the opening of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, his identification with the novel's anti-hero is complete: Rassoul is Raskolnikov, transplanted to late twentieth-century Kabul.
- Uniform Title
- Maudit soit Dostoïevski. English
- Alternative Title
- Maudit soit Dostoïevski.
- Subject
- Afghanistan > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Satire
- Satire.
- Note
- Translated from the French.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780701187187 (hbk.)
- 0701187182 (hbk.)
- 9781448105205 (ePub ebook)
- 144810520X (ePub ebook)
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library