Chevengur (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrei Platonovich Klimentov
- First Published: 1972
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: Shortly before and during the Russian Revolution and Civil War
- Setting: Russia’s central provinces and Moscow
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire, Surrealist literature
- Subjects: Communism or communists, Revolutions, Villages, 1910’s, Russia or Russian people, Utopias, Russian Revolution
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
Characters Discussed
Alexander (Sasha) Dvanov (DVAH-nov), an orphan and Red Army soldier. Having been orphaned early and thrown out of his foster parents’ home, Sasha becomes a mendicant and later joins the Bolsheviks. As a beggar, he is a failure, because he is not brave enough to beg. He embraces Communism instinctively, at first because everyone else is joining the movement and it is frightening to be left alone again. Later, he learns more about Communism, but his understanding of it remains on a rudimentary level, as he seeks understanding among the simplest and best of...
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