{"product_id":"a-school-for-fools-paperback","title":"A School for Fools - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSasha Sokolov\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAlexander Boguslawski\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns lyrical and philosophical, witty and baffling, \u003ci\u003eA School for Fools\u003c\/i\u003e confounds all expectations of the novel. Here we find not one reliable narrator but two \"unreliable\" narrators: the young man who is a student at the \"school for fools\" and his double. What begins as a reverie (with frequent interruptions) comes to seem a sort of fairy-tale quest not for gold or marriage but for self-knowledge. The currents of consciousness running through the novel are passionate and profound. Memories of childhood summers at the dacha are contemporaneous with the present, the dead are alive, and the beloved is present in the wind. Here is a tale either of madness or of the life of the imagination in conversation with reason, straining at the limits of language; in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, \"an enchanting, tragic, and touching book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSasha Sokolov\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Canada in 1943. His father, a high-ranking Soviet diplomat, was deported from Canada as a spy in 1946, and Sokolov grew up in the Soviet Union, where he studied journalism at Moscow State University. He made repeated attempts to escape from the USSR, for which he was briefly imprisoned, but after international protests, he was finally permitted to leave the country in 1975. That same year the manuscript of \u003ci\u003eA School for Fools\u003c\/i\u003e, his first novel, was smuggled out of the Soviet Union and published in the West to great acclaim. The recipient of the prestigious Andrei Bely Prize in 1981 and of the Pushkin Prize for literature in 1996, Sokolov is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eAstrophobia\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBetween Dog and Wolf\u003c\/i\u003e and of a book of essays, \u003ci\u003eIn the House of the Hanged\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Boguslawski\u003c\/b\u003e is a professor of Russian studies at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 17, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47247119319289,"sku":"9781590178461","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/S3k2bjQyQTlVRUgvNEZIU0k4Qi9nZz09.webp?v=1768620960","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/a-school-for-fools-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}