The Old Man
- ISBN-10
- 0671252836
- ISBN-13
- 9780671252830
- Series
- The Old Man
- Pages
- 267
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1984
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Юрий Трифонов
Description
The Old Man veers between a contemporary effort to buy a dacha and the memories of an incident in the Civil War. A questionable action in the past haunts the present and throws into relief the materialism that has come to replace revolutionary idealism; suggesting this idealism may have been tainted in the first place. While the setting and situation are very Soviet, the quandary Trifonov describes has universal significance.
