The panopticum.
The Baconniere| N° d'inventaire | 31174 |
| Format | 12 x 18 |
| Détails | 85 p, paperback. |
| Publication | Switzerland, 2024 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782889601523 |
An idealist, Andrei Sobol (1888-1926) never stopped searching for a just cause to commit himself to, body and soul. A cause that could anchor him in the Russia he loved. But from disillusionment to disillusionment, he would never find his place there... In 1926, three years after having necessarily renewed his ties with Soviet power, and following two suicide attempts in 1924 and 1925, the writer took his own life. His work would be hidden by the regime for the next sixty years.
The Panopticum , written shortly before Sobol began to sink, certainly bears the imprint of his tumultuous life, carrying pell-mell, through curious characters, the impulses, the torments and the shattered hopes that inhabited him. This author, in whom Varlam Chalamov saw "the conscience of the Russian intelligentsia," is now published for the first time in French.
Russian panopticums from the early 20th century century are the heirs of the cabinets of curiosities, rich in everything that makes up living and fossil diversity. One of them, lost in a Russian village in the grip of civil war, serves as the setting for this short novel published in 1925. Its staff members, the woman with the heart on the right, the man with skin and bones, the woman with a two-meter-long braid, the Lilliputian, the two-hundred-kilo woman, and Tsimbaliouk.
An idealist, Andrei Sobol (1888-1926) never stopped searching for a just cause to commit himself to, body and soul. A cause that could anchor him in the Russia he loved. But from disillusionment to disillusionment, he would never find his place there... In 1926, three years after having necessarily renewed his ties with Soviet power, and following two suicide attempts in 1924 and 1925, the writer took his own life. His work would be hidden by the regime for the next sixty years.
The Panopticum , written shortly before Sobol began to sink, certainly bears the imprint of his tumultuous life, carrying pell-mell, through curious characters, the impulses, the torments and the shattered hopes that inhabited him. This author, in whom Varlam Chalamov saw "the conscience of the Russian intelligentsia," is now published for the first time in French.
Russian panopticums from the early 20th century century are the heirs of the cabinets of curiosities, rich in everything that makes up living and fossil diversity. One of them, lost in a Russian village in the grip of civil war, serves as the setting for this short novel published in 1925. Its staff members, the woman with the heart on the right, the man with skin and bones, the woman with a two-meter-long braid, the Lilliputian, the two-hundred-kilo woman, and Tsimbaliouk.