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Title: Yawning Heights by Alexander Zinoviev ISBN: 0-370-30039-4 Publisher: Bodley Head Limited Format: Unknown Binding

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: An essential element of any real intellectual's library
Comment: There is no book better than this to examine the social system under which hundreds of millions of people lived, largely wasted, and ended their lives. In contrast to, say, "Cursed Days" by Bunin, the author lived out his life in the mire of Absurdistan, and can explain the WHOLE period even better than Solzhenitzyn. An era, the most tragic in human history, when one could choose to either be beaten to death or bored to death. A must for any intellectual contemplating the future.

Rating: 5
Summary: A great novel mixed with history
Comment: This is the famous lampooning of how life was in the Soviet Union, with veiled and caricatured personas of Stalin, Khrushchev, Solzhenitsyn, Pasternak and many, many more from that time period. One of the Soviet Union's leading philosophers, Alexander Zinoviev was, upon Brezhnev's personal orders, stripped of all degrees and honors, dismissed from his appointments, expelled from the Communist Party and deprived of citizenship for writing this book This novel has been described as the bitterest satirical attack on the Soviet system to appear in Russian (and most probably in English as well). The book can be read on a number of different levels. It's one of those "My, God!" revelatory books that has relevance in this day and age. Comparitive with Swift, Kafka, Rabelais and Orwell. An infinately readable, despite its length, modern day classic. Get your hands on a copy by hook or by crook!