I found the saddest book.

- perfect structure
- psychologically insightful
- realistic, semi-autobiographical
- banal, yet tragic tone
Wonderful book.
Lydia Chukovskaya's work 'Sofia Petrovna' is a bleak photograph of Leningrad in 1937.
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[@solidsnake3014]

Great video!

[@Orpheuslament]

The series that this book is from is an excellent way to find good books. They also do The Return of Philip Latinowicz

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Interesting. I've got a few others from this same publishing house, but only Russian books for some reason. It's not a press I'd looked into before. As for Latinowicz, I'll have to check that out.

[@rubeng9092]

comfy review man. Really liked hearing the facts about the way they handled censorship in the ol' UdSSR. Didn't knew about that at all.

[@DuckStrider]

I have heard that they wouldn't let Kafka's work to be published because it was too depressing for their liking.

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Interesting. I didn't know Kafka was one of their banned authors, but it makes sense, I suppose.
I read a few articles about interpretations of Kafka's Trial in the Soviet Union that said they took the book literally and recontextualised it within the USSR - Josef K's arbitrary arrest and struggle with immutable bureaucracy etc would have been popular and recognisable as a daily occurrence for them.

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@@VersoFolioBooks I was referring to the works that he had published while he was alive. To my knowledge, that is not the case for the trial(had it not been his friend to whom he sent copies of the tower and the trial, they wouldn't exist, but I think you know that already ). And particularly to metamorphosis. He wasn't one of their banned authors, they just didn't let that one, due to its sad depressing message (according to them). I thought to mention it because you were talking about the saddest book you know in the video.