Henry James’s admiration for “this masterly little novel” has been echoed throughout the twentieth century by readers of Pierre et Jean. It marked a turning point in the development of French fiction, situated as it is between traditional...
`Me han insultado y me han calumniado desde el principio del mundo. Los propios poetas (amigos míos por naturaleza), que me defienden, no han sabido defenderme bien. Uno de ellos (un inglés llamado Milton) me hizo perder una batalla...
The story exposes the ways of thinking promulgated by the Communist propaganda in 1920s and 1930s and throws in quite a few realistic facts of everyday Soviet life in those...