A School for Fools
A School for Fools (Russian: Школа для дураков, Shkola dlya durakov) is a novel by Sasha Sokolov, first published in Ardis Publishing in 1976. The novel is often classified as a work of phantasmagoric postmodernism. Vladimir Nabokov called it "an enchanting, tragic, and touching work".
Characters[]
- The Narrator (unnamed).
- Nymphea Alba.
- Those Who Came.
- The narrator's Father.
- The narrator's Mother.
- Savl/Pavel Petrovich Norvegov.
- Mikheev/Medvedev.
- Yakov and Sheina Emmanuilovna Trachtenberg-Tinbergen.
- Veta Acatova.
- Arcady Arcadievich Acatov.
- Rosa Windova.
- Principal Perillo.
Themes and Motifs[]
-Perspective.
-Time.
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-Sanity.
Categories:
- Soviet novels
- Censored books
- Postmodern novels
- 1976 Russian novels
- Novels set in Russia
- 1960s novel stubs
- Russia stubs
- Postmodern novel stubs