Trepanation of the Skull

by Sergey Gandlevsky and Сергей Гандлевский

Sergey Gandlevsky is widely recognized as one of the leading living Russian poets and prose writers. His autobiographical novella Trepanation of the Skull is a portrait of the artist as a young late-Soviet man. At the center of the narrative are Gandlevsky's brain tumor, surgery, and recovery in the early 1990s. The story radiates out, relaying the poet's personal history through 1994, including his unique perspective on the 1991 coup by...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875807151
• ISBN13: 9780875807157
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher