The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident in the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; suggesting this idealism may have been tainted in the first place. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance.
- ISBN13 9780810115712
- Publish Date 30 December 1999
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 267
- Language English