Ladies’ Hairdresser (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Ylena Sergeyevna Dolgintsova
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Social realism
- Time of Work: The 1960’s
- Setting: A large, provincial Russian city
- Genres: Long fiction, Social realism
- Subjects: 1960’s, Oppression, Work or workers, Soviet Union or Soviets, Hairdressing or hairdressers
- Locales: Russia
Characters Discussed
Professor Marya Vladimirovna Kovaleva (vlah-dih-MIH-rov-nah koh-VAH-lyeh-vah), the director of a computer institute. A single, middle-aged woman with two sons, she is a sympathetic and competent professional who finds time to pursue her own mathematical research, to organize social and cultural events, and to run the household. An intellectual, she reads English novels for recreation. Her decision to do something about her appearance takes her to a hairdressing salon, where she makes the acquaintance of an unusual hairdresser whose nonconformist attitudes...
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