The Education of Lev Navrozov. A Life in the Closed World Once Called Russia

New York: Harper's Magazine Press. Very Good/Good. 1975. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 0061264156 Hardback Hardcover. First Edition. The Education of Lev Navrozov. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Wear and some small tears to edge of D/J. This book recreates the life of a spirituality isolated individual inside a vast, omnipotent, machine-like society - cruel, barren, and destructive. Navrozov writes with a sensivity long missing from Russian letters. Interwoven with the story of one man cherishing the constantly endangered flicker of his identity is a socialogical and psycological analysis of Russia under its new 'Tsar-gods', which in its cascade of gargoyle imagery and black phantasms reads like fiction, but which is in fact an incisive and accurate twenty years' study of post-1917 Russia, carried out inside the U.S.S.R., and often based on documentary evidence the West has never seen. It is this combination of artistic intensity - so very russian - with rigorous Western social analysis that makes this book a horrifying discovery of an unknown civilization: one that so many scholars often falsely assume to be familiar - of life utterly other, yet frighteningly near. 628 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .