Evgeny Grishkovets
Autore di Särk
Sull'Autore
Opere di Evgeny Grishkovets
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Grishkovets, Evgeny
- Altri nomi
- Grishkovetz, Yevgeni
- Data di nascita
- 1967-02-17
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Russia
- Luogo di residenza
- Kaliningrad, Russia
- Attività lavorative
- actor
writer
musician
dramatist
stage director
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
Statistiche
- Opere
- 18
- Utenti
- 71
- Popolarità
- #245,552
- Voto
- 3.3
- Recensioni
- 5
- ISBN
- 19
- Lingue
- 3
The Hemingway allusion also extends to Sasha's sleepy fantasies about himself in various heroic adventures, though sometimes these interruptions to the narrative seem a bit forced.
By coincidence, Sue at Whispering Gums has posted a review today of Chekhov's famous story, 'The Lady with the Dog', and although I haven't read it, it seems to me that The Hemingway Game treats the same theme, that is, a story of a young man discovering what true love really is. Set over a single day in Moscow, Grishovets' story shows us two men having relished their carefree dalliances only to discover that real love matters more. Sasha, who's an architect, is suddenly infatuated with Her, the unnamed object of his new and overwhelming affections, and for most of the novel he carries on like a silly teenager, waiting on phone calls, and stressing about whether and when he should call and what he should wear and all that nonsense. It is not until late in the story that a catastrophe makes him understand that it's real love and not infatuation that he craves. At the same time Sasha's preoccupation with Her annoys Max who still wants to play around — until he too realises the error of his ways.
Along the way, Grishkovets has some fun satirising the new Moscow. Both the young men are from the provinces, and are a little smitten by the 24/7 anything goes Big City lifestyle. They are particularly attentive to the style of the taxi drivers who negotiate Moscow's atrocious traffic, but they take the glory of Stalin's 'gift to the people' metro stations for granted.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2019/08/06/the-hemingway-game-by-evgeny-grishkovets-tra...… (altro)