Flooding Yevgeny Zamyatin
Editions Alfabia
1st edition, May 2010
Translation Marta Rebón
Gender: Relatively long
85 pages
ISBN: 9788493794309
Russia has so many brilliant writers throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it seems that Gogol, Gorky, Pasternak, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and Chekhov, among others, have overshadowed the work of excellent writers of the last century, which appear more blurred when we talk about Russian literature. That and Stalinism blocking the career of a few authors. Zamyatin chose to leave their country before the picture was coming (he died in Paris in 1937, 53 years). Indeed, the last thing before leaving was published this short novel rather long story, entitled Flooding. Uploaded
a strong symbolism, Flooding focuses on the inner struggle of a woman, Sophie, who lives in St. Petersburg with an authoritarian husband is afraid to lose if you become pregnant soon. The design problems are erased when it seems that marriage decides Ganka care, the young daughter of a neighbor who has just died. But what to Sofia was a source of tranquility quickly becomes a tragedy when her husband, Trofim Ivanovich, you feel an uncontrollable desire for Ganka that has nothing to do with parent-child bonds.
Title ( The flood ) refers to the overflowing of the river Neva, which takes place in the novel and causing several deaths, but mainly refers to the anguish contained in Sofia that threatens to boil over at any time. The social portrait of the author of this marriage is also like a river is flowing and soaking each of the characters in the novel: each of them adds to the drama of Sofia, but most do without realizing it. The novel is read in one breath, but despite its brevity, The flood contains all the ingredients to deserve their place among the key titles of the twentieth century Russian literature.
If you have not read Zamyatin, I recommend Flooding and, if you like, excellent dystopian novel We (Akal, 2008), who wrote in 1921, long before Aldous Huxley wrote A world Happy (1932) and George Orwell 1984 (1948). It appears that both authors owe much to Zamyatin.
a strong symbolism, Flooding focuses on the inner struggle of a woman, Sophie, who lives in St. Petersburg with an authoritarian husband is afraid to lose if you become pregnant soon. The design problems are erased when it seems that marriage decides Ganka care, the young daughter of a neighbor who has just died. But what to Sofia was a source of tranquility quickly becomes a tragedy when her husband, Trofim Ivanovich, you feel an uncontrollable desire for Ganka that has nothing to do with parent-child bonds.
Title ( The flood ) refers to the overflowing of the river Neva, which takes place in the novel and causing several deaths, but mainly refers to the anguish contained in Sofia that threatens to boil over at any time. The social portrait of the author of this marriage is also like a river is flowing and soaking each of the characters in the novel: each of them adds to the drama of Sofia, but most do without realizing it. The novel is read in one breath, but despite its brevity, The flood contains all the ingredients to deserve their place among the key titles of the twentieth century Russian literature.
If you have not read Zamyatin, I recommend Flooding and, if you like, excellent dystopian novel We (Akal, 2008), who wrote in 1921, long before Aldous Huxley wrote A world Happy (1932) and George Orwell 1984 (1948). It appears that both authors owe much to Zamyatin.
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