Another Life (Masterplots II: World Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Yuri Trifonov
- First Published: 1975
- Type of Work: Realism
- Time of Work: The early 1970’s
- Setting: Moscow
- Principal Characters: Olga Vasilievna, Sergei, Alexandra Prokofievna, Irina
- 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
The Novel
Another Life chronicles a widow’s progress in the months following her husband’s untimely death at age forty-two. The narrative, presented entirely from Olga Vasilievna’s point of view, switches from present to past and back again as she attempts to make sense of their life together and of her solitary existence now. She reviews their courtship, the course of their marriage, and the ups and downs of her husband’s career.
Yuri Trifonov eschews strict chronological order in favor of the workings of memory, at least in the first part of the...
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