Another Life (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Yuri Trifonov
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: Moscow, the Soviet Union
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1970’s, Memory, Marriage, Historians, Death or dying, Widows or widowers, Russia or Russian people, Biology or biologists
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
Characters Discussed
Olga Vasilievna (vah-see- LYEHV-nah), a recently widowed research biologist. After the early death of her husband, Sergei Afanasievich, she reconstructs by way of flashbacks their life together in an attempt to understand what went wrong and to assuage her guilt feelings about her husband’s demise. In the end, she realizes that she is not to blame, that their marriage was doomed to failure through forces beyond their control, and that they both unknowingly had yearned for a life other than their own, which eventually led to misunderstandings and the...
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