A School for Fools (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sasha Sokolov
- First Published: 1976
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Psychological realism
- Time of Work: The early 1960’s
- Setting: Moscow and a nearby summer cottage settlement
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Freedom, 1960’s, Mental illness, Imagination, Russia or Russian people
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
Characters Discussed
The narrator, also known as Nymphea alba and Those Who Came, a schizophrenic adolescent. His mental illness is diagnosed as hereditary, though his family situation probably has aggravated it. He has spent some time in a mental hospital but is later enrolled at a special school for students unable to meet the demands of a regular education. The peculiarities of his affliction most obvious in his narrative are his complete lack of a sense of time and his inability to delineate completely the characters of others. The novel is, for the most part, a dialogue...
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