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<p>From one of the greatest Russian writers of the past half century comes a metaphysical mystery novel that defies categorization and confounds expectation. Andrei Bitov's <i>The Symmetry Teacher</i> presents itself as the "echo" of an older British novel Bitov once read and had long forgotten. Unable even to recall the name of that novel's author, Bitov reconstructs its literary vision through the fog of memory, creating a group of stories nestled together like a matryoshka doll. In doing so, Bitov evokes the anxieties of the late and post-Soviet decades, confronting urgent questions of conscience and self-deception through an innovative style that revels in paradox and sleight of hand. <br><br>Unified by the delightfully maddening search for the identity of a writer toiling in obscurity, <i>The Symmetry Teacher</i> takes us through a curious series of episodes: A man meets the devil on a park bench and the devil shows him photographs of the fall of Troy, Shakespeare's legs, and a terrible event that will take place in his future. A young poet fleeing his past is stranded on a windswept island and tormented by a lover and her shape-shifting evil twin. Three friends, unable to bec

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Author

Andrei Bitov, Polly Gannon, Mary Catherine Gannon

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374712099

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction