Novel with Cocaine

Author

M. Ageyev

Original Work

Novel with Cocaine

Translator

Michael Henry Heim

Language

English

Year

1998

Publisher

Northwestern University Press

Country

United States

Pages

204

ISBN

978-0810117099

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A Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, Novel with Cocaine explores the interaction between psychology, philosophy, and ideology in its frank portrayal of an adolescent's cocaine addiction. The story relates the formative experiences of Vadim at school and with women before he turns to drug abuse and the philosophical reflections to which it gives rise. Although Ageyev makes little explicit reference to the Revolution, the novel's obsession with addictive forms of thinking finds resonance in the historical background, in which "our inborn feelings of humanity and justice" provoke "the cruelties and satanic transgressions committed in its name.— Google Books