The Makepeace Experiment (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrei Sinyavsky
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Satire
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Lyubimov, a fictitious small Russian town
- Genres: Long fiction, Satire
- Subjects: 1960’s, Perception, Social reform, Power, personal or social, Politics, Revolutions, Rulers, Russia or Russian people, Utopias
- Locales: Russia
Characters Discussed
Leonard (Lenny) Makepeace, also known as Leonid Tikhomirov (leh-oh-NIHD tih-khoh MIH-rov), a young bicycle repairman in the fictitious Russian city of Lyubimov. Lenny’s father was a cobbler who perished in World War II. His mother dotes on him, trying continually to fatten his lean, narrow-chested frame with cottage cheese. Lenny becomes obsessed with coming to power in Lyubimov because he thinks this will please Serafima Petrovna, the attractive local language teacher. He obtains power by the use of “mental magnetism,” a skill he acquired by reading...
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