Graphomaniacs (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrei Sinyavsky
- First Published: 1961
- Type of Plot: Parody
- Time of Work: 1959
- Setting: Moscow
- Principal Characters: Paul Ivanovich Straustin, Zinaida, Paul, Semyon Galkin
- Genres: Short fiction, Parody
- Subjects: Authors or writers, Literature, Hallucinations or illusions, Comedy
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
The Story
The naïve, cliched subtitle of this story suggests that its first-person narrator is rather inept, hardly a skilled writer. This impression is confirmed within the first page of the story when Paul Ivanovich Straustin, the narrator and protagonist, determines to memorize a phrase that has come to his mind: “the breath of an approaching thunderstorm could be sensed in the air.” Oblivious to its excruciating banality, Straustin vows that he will use this phrase as the last sentence of his novel In Search of Joy, adding it “if necessary even at the proof...
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