| Novel with Cocaine Contributor(s): Ageyev, M. (Author), Heim, Michael Henry (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0810117096 ISBN-13: 9780810117099 Publisher: Northwestern University Press OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1998 Annotation: The story of an adolescent's cocaine addiction, Novel with Cocaine relates the formative experiences of its antihero, Vadim, at school and with women before turning to the experience of drug abuse itself and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although it makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with cruelly addictive forms of thinking finds great resonance in the historical setting that forms its background, in which "our inborn feelings of humanity and justice" provoke "the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 98-22090 |
| Series: European Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" (0.53 lbs) 204 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which our inborn feelings of humanity and justice provoke the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name. |