Trepanation of the Skull
Trepanation of the Skull Sergey Gandlevsky is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. At the center of the narrative are Gandlevsky's brain tumor, surgery, and…
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Trepanation of the Skull
Sergey Gandlevsky is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. At the center of the narrative are Gandlevsky's brain tumor, surgery, and recovery in the early 1990s. His autobiographical novella Trepanation of the Skull is a portrait of the artist as a young late-Soviet man.
Gandlevsky tells wonderfully strange but true episodes from the bohemian life he and his literary companions led. The story radiates out, relaying the poet's personal history through 1994, including his unique perspective on the 1991 coup by Communist hardliners resisted by Boris Yeltsin. He also frankly describes his epic alcoholism and his ambivalent adjustment to marriage and fatherhood.Aside from its documentary interest, the book's appeal derives from its self-critical and shockingly honest narrator, who expresses himself in the densely stylized version of