Little Nips
Penelope Fitzgerald, 26 May 1994
The Moment between the Past and the Future
by Grigorij Baklanov, translated by Catherine Porter.
Faber, 217 pp., £14.99, March 1994,0 571 16444 7 Show More
by Grigorij Baklanov, translated by Catherine Porter.
Faber, 217 pp., £14.99, March 1994,
The Soul of a Patriot
by Evgeny Popov, translated by Robert Porter.
Harvill, 194 pp., £8.99, April 1994,0 00 271124 9 Show More
by Evgeny Popov, translated by Robert Porter.
Harvill, 194 pp., £8.99, April 1994,
“... a handful of earth. But nothing is certain. The future is still terrifyingly open to history. Baklanov’s novel, then, is the life of an apparatchik written in the traditional strongly ironic narrative mode which ‘crept out from beneath Gogol’s Overcoat’, tightened up at certain points by satire, and at others relaxed into open pathos. When the ... ”
