{"product_id":"the-golovlyov-family-isbn-9780940322578","title":"The Golovlyov Family","description":"Searingly hot in the summer, bitterly cold in the winter, the ancestral estate of the Golovlyov family is the end of the road. There Anna Petrovna rules with an iron hand over her servants and family-until she loses power to the relentless scheming of her hypocritical son Judas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of the great books of Russian literature,\u003ci\u003e The Golovlyov Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a vivid picture of a condemned and isolated outpost of civilization that, for contemporary readers, will recall the otherwordly reality of Macondo in Gabriel García Márquez's \u003ci\u003eOne Hundred Years of Solitude\u003c\/i\u003e.…Strikingly powerful, convincing, and impressive.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a tragic story, deeply moving, and by means of the figures that pass through it, relentlessly depicts the Russia that so inevitably prepared the Revolution. The book is a classic in its own country, and it is obvious why.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Golovlyov Family has been described as the gloomiest of Russian novels. Certainly the characters are all wretched or unpleasant, and the reader of the novels who professes that strange but common English attitude to literature: “Would I like to meet these people?” must leave the book alone. Shchedrin’s book is not gloomy; it is powerful. It communicates power. It places an enormous experience in our hands. How many realists simply indulge in an orgy of determinism and seek only evidence that indicates damnation….[Shchedrin] is not looking for quick moral returns. His method is exhaustive and not summary. The compensations of life are not moral; they are simply more life of a different kind.\u003cbr\u003e— V.S. Pritchett, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe whole novel is practically a picture of a complete dehumanization of human beings, of an absolute victory of matter over spirit. And as such it is strikingly powerful, convincing, and impressive.\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003eMikhail Evgrafovich Saltykov, pen-name Shchedrin, (1826-1889) is known as Russia’s greatest satirist. Born into the landed gentry, he worked as a civil servant while writing and editing for radical journals. Though he was exiled for seven years, he maintained an unflagging attack on Russia’s social institutions, the new bourgeois capitalists, and the cowardice of the educated classes. Shchedrin showed his talents in the \u003ci\u003eFables, The History of a Town\u003c\/i\u003e, and his masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eThe Golovlyov Family\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Wood is a novelist, staff critic at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, and Professor of the Practice of Literary Criticism at Harvard University.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233674997989,"sku":"NP9780940322578","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780940322578.jpg?v=1767739583","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-golovlyov-family-isbn-9780940322578","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}