A school for fools vladimir nabokov described this novel as an enchanting, tragic, and touching book and nabokov was not a man to hand out compliments lightly, particularly to russian authors. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. What begins as a reverie with frequent interruptions comes to seem a sort of fairytale. New list of russianlanguage writers and a school for fools see more a sportsmans sketches. Hailed by nabokov as a masterpiece, sokolovs first novel is set. Roman shkola dlia durakov samoe izvestnoe proizvedenie pisatelia.
All around him now, after 14 years of new england solitude and twang, the juicy, popped sounds of russian, each glottal stop a seed, each word. List of russianlanguage writers unionpedia, the concept map. He became known worldwide in the 1970s after his first novel, a school for. Sokolov did not even try to publish this novel in the soviet union in the mid1970s. A school for fools by sasha sokolov winstonsdads blog. Sasha sokolov is a paradoxical writer of russian literature.