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by Olga Grushin

Author:	Olga Grushin
Subcategory:	Politics & Government
Language:	English
Publisher:	Penguin Books; Reprint edition (January 30, 2007)
Pages:	368 pages
Category:	Politics
Rating:	4.2
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Critics’ praise for The Dream Life of Sukbanov and Olga Grushin. Yet so accomplished are her skills-so hauntingly assured-that more than one .

Critics’ praise for The Dream Life of Sukbanov and Olga Grushin. This is an outstanding novel. It’s a first one, too with it, Grushin raises the bar for first novels. Like all excellent works. it fills one with joy, because it works on every level.

Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores - really, colonizes - the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. Olga Grushin is a talented author and the Dream Life of Sukhanov is a remarkable work that achieved a great balance of story and character, historical scope and individual focus, power writing and lyricism. It’s one of the better books I’ve read in 2017. I hope you enjoy it to. .

Книга жанра: Проза, Современная проза. Читать онлайн в библиотеке Booksonline. I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. ONE. Stop here, said Anatoly Pavlovich Sukhanov from the backseat, addressing the pair of suede gloves on the steering wheel

Olga Grushin THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV To my parents I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot.

Olga Grushin THE DREAM LIFE OF SUKHANOV To my parents I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. REVELATION 3:15-17 ONE Stop here, said Anatoly Pavlovich Su.

Sukhanov waited patiently while she flipped open a compact, balanced its small convex pool of glittering blackness on her palm, slid a peach-colored pillar of lipstick out of the golden coils of its case, and proceeded to bend her face this way and that, trying to chase her reflection out of the shadows. The crowd looked befittingly festive, and light danced playfully off every gesture, transforming a lifted champagne flute into liquid gold, setting a flock of sparks aflutter over an extended hand, causing tiny explosions with every turn of a woman’s head.

In Olga Grushin’s new novel, Forty Rooms (Marian Wood Books/Putnam), we follow a protagonist throughout her life during . The award-winning author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) and The Line (2010) contemplates the tension between art and domesticity.

The award-winning author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) and The Line (2010) contemplates the tension between art and domesticity.

Olga Grushin’s astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov

Olga Grushin’s astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores-really, colonizes-the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik.

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The Dream Life of Sukhanov. Author: Olga Grushin. Publisher: Penguin Books, New York, 2007. At fifty-six, Anatoly Sukhanov has everything a man could want.

Married to the caretaker of their apartment house, she lived somewhere in the building’s nether regions. g a gap between her front teeth. I’ve made my vareniki with cherries you like so much, this being Sunday and al.Indeed, the whole apartment was seasoned with sweet, rich smells; the woman could certainly cook. Sukhanov ate in silence

Olga Grushins astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it exploresreally, colonizesthe consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.

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Anatoly Sukhanov had it made. He has a beautiful wife, a luxurious apartment, chauffer driven limousine, and is editor of Russia's premier art journal. But what was the status of art in 1985 Russia? Anatoly's job was to extol an art form that portrayed happy mine workers, smiling women holding their babies, gallant soldiers defending Mother Russia. How does a man who was an aspiring artist in his youth stomach the promotion of such dross?

As the novel progresses Anatoly experiences a series of small, quirky incidents that start him on a mental reverie of his life. When you are young, and poor and struggling you are faced with a decision. Do you as an artist stick to your artistic ideals which are contrary to the regime's dictates, and risk living in poverty or worse or do you take the road that provides a decent living for your wife and children? As the pages fly by the current reality of Anatoly's life begin to meld more and more with his dreams of the past. We wonder, as Anatoly examines his past, if he is going to have a spiritual reawakening. Can he finally cast off his self imposed blinders? There has to be the remains of an artistic soul in this man whose job it is to denounce Matisse, and Dali as decadent, corrupt artists.

This is an amazing book. It is truly a literary work of the highest order. The writing is superb. Here is a Russian born woman writing in what is her third language. One immediately begins to compare the writing with that of Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Nabokov, and the comparison is highly favorable. If you love art, as I do, you will find this book to be especially enjoyable. This is truly a "10 star" book.

Oparae

Russian emigre Olga Grushin has crafted a fine first novel about the wounds we inflict on ourselves whether we cling to our youthful dreams or turn away from them.

The setting is Moscow in the mid eighties. Fifty six year old Anatoly Sukhanov is a prominent art critic and the Editorial Director of a respected art journal. In return for being the Party's first line of defense against the decadence of western art, Sukhanov receives the perks of a mid-level party apparatchik: dacha, chauffeur, fashionable Moscow apartment. But change is blowing through the Soviet system, and it's becoming more difficult for Sukhanov to maintain his ideological footing. At home, his wife Nina seems distant and distracted. His two children have begun to unnerve him because their personalities reflect the split in his own. His son has become a cold-eyed careerist while his teenage daughter believes passionately in the transforming power of art, just as Sukhanov did back when he was a young artist of promise.

Sukhanov starts slipping into reveries about his past - the tragedy that befell his father during the Great Patriotic War, his first subversive exposure to Renaissance and modern art, his early days as a painter, when his soul burned with desire to capture what he saw in his mind. Sukhanov's passionate paintings are caught in a Khrushchev-era political crossfire, which gets him fired from his job as an art teacher. With a young family and an uncertain future in front of him, Sukhanov takes the lifeline offered by his father-in-law Malinin, a hack painter with good party connections. Sukhanov puts away his paints and becomes a successful art critic by attacking in the name of Soviet ideology the same surrealist and modernist art he revered as a painter.

The supporting characters are uniformly interesting. Sukhanov's wife Nina is both his muse and the reason he walks away from all that he values. She wants the material ease obtained by playing within the system but feels guilty over the lack of integrity this implies. Marrying the poor but talented Sukhanov was her way of rebelling against the type of life she and Sukhanov end up having. His old friend Belkin stayed true to his art and stayed poor and obscure while Sukhanov built his comfortable life. Now in his fifties, Belkin realizes that he lacks the skill and the stamina to make the final traverse from competence to mastery.

Past and present collide with increasing force in Sukhanov's mind. By the end of the novel he finally knows who he is, and how he got that way. What's in doubt is whether he'll be able to act on the knowledge. Soviet artists of Sukhanov's generation faced an impossible dilemma. If art's purpose is to serve the needs of the state, then spending your days giving form to insights mined from your subjective consciousness is inherently decadent and selfish. But it's also the process by which all art universally acknowledged as great has been created over the past several centuries. Sukhanov's tragedy is that he's talented, but not courageous enough to go where his talent takes him.

Inevitably, critics have compared Grushin to Nabokov, another Russian emigre writing novels in English. Grushin hasn't reached Nabokov's level of artistry - few have. For one thing, the book's pacing bogs down at times. Partly it's all the excursions into Sukhanov's past, partly it's the density of her descriptions. But she writes with wit, warmth and compassion, and this is a novel of many pleasures. A more apt comparison is to Anatolii Rybakov's brilliant novel of the Stalinist era, Children of the Arbat. Through the skill and particularity of their writing, Rybakov and Grushin reveal the real harm done by totalitarian governments. It's not what they do to their citizens, but what they make their citizens do to themselves.

Marad

This is one of those rare stories where the writing trumps understanding of the plot or likeability of the characters. Grushin' s novel focuses on Anatoly Sukhanov, a man who has it all in late Soviet Russia. Once a young & gifted painter, Sukhanov sells out and chooses a comfortable life drafting stale criticism of Western art. However, because the novel takes place in 1985, the changing times shakes up his life forcing him to confront harsh truths once comfortably buried by Sukhanov's mind. I highly recommend this book, which is wonderfully relative despite the setting and subject matter.

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