Kangaroo (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Joseph Aleshkovsky
- First Published: 1981
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: 1949-1956
- Setting: Moscow, Yalta, Munich, and a labor camp
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1950’s, Communism or communists, Prisons, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Trials, Rape, Germany or German people, Animals, Moscow, Soviet Union or Soviets
- Locales: Munich, Germany, Moscow, Russia, Yalta, Ukraine
Characters Discussed
Fan Fanych, alias “Citizen Etcetera” or Newton Tarkington, an international gangster. A crook who sustains himself by “relieving” the rich of excess funds, Fan Fanych is an iconoclast fighting to retain his individuality in the face of dehumanizing interrogation and imprisonment by Josef Stalin’s Ministerstvo Vnutrennikh Del. Fanych, who is used as a guinea pig in a futuristic computer- designed crime experiment, is convicted of an imaginary crime invented by the computer and then dramatized on film: the rape and murder of Gemma, a kangaroo at the...
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