Trepanation of the Skull
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...
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...
