![]() ![]() Venya (or Venichka) engages in a long monologue, which switches topics from alcohol to history, philosophy, culture, and politics. What is so unique about the book is that, while it is based on a rather simple and hallucinatory alcoholic trip, it is so full of allusions to Russian and world literature that an annotated commentary is a number of times thicker than the relatively small book itself. "T his short poem in prose has an extremely rich literary texture" ![]() Tormented by phantasmagoric visions, he stumbles through the city streets at nighttime and is eventually attacked and murdered by four unknown thugs. He is going there to meet up with his lover and their young son, but unfortunately, he doesn’t wake up from his drunken stupor and ends up travelling on the train back to Moscow. ![]() The journey is 125 kilometers long, from Moscow’s central Kurskaya station to the town of Petushki. Moskva-Petushki (released in English as Moscow to the End of the Line) is the tale of a journey on a local suburban train (an "Електричка" or " elektrichka") undertaken by an intellectual alcoholic named Venedikt Erofeev, just like the author of the book. ![]()
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