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The novel follows Boris Kostomarov, an engineer in Soviet Russia, who, through conflicts with bureaucracy, moral questioning, and the fates of people in remote forests, reveals the complexity of Soviet society and the price of personal conscience.
Ivan Lukaš's novel depicts the tragic love story of the great Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. The novel follows his unrequited love, artistic struggle, alcoholism, and decline in 19th-century imperial Russia.
The Golden Calf (1931) is a brilliant satirical picaresque adventure, a sequel to the legendary 12 Chairs, where the great schemer Ostap Bender returns in full glory – charming, cynical, irredeemably cunning and always one step ahead of everyone else.
The Golden Calf (1931) follows the ingenious con artist Ostap Bender, who in Soviet Russia during the first five-year plan seeks a secret millionaire in order to get rich, encountering the absurdity of bureaucracy, the new Soviet man, and his own downfall
Between 1892, when "The Fragment", the first novella in this book, was published, and "The Peasant" (1897) and "On the Carts" (1897), A. P. Chekhov made a series of other artistically successful observations of the society in which he lived.
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