{"product_id":"novel-with-cocaine-paperback","title":"Novel with Cocaine - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eM. Ageyev\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael Henry Heim\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Dostoevskian psychological novel of ideas, \u003ci\u003e Novel with Cocaine\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eM. AGEYEV \u003c\/b\u003eis a pseudonym. Following the publication of \u003ci\u003eNovel with Cocaine\u003c\/i\u003e in a Paris-based Russian émigré journal in the early 1930s, the author, then living in Istanbul, sent a passport and a short story to a friend in Paris. The short story was published, the passport lost. Nobody has ever identified the author. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMICHAEL HENRY HEIM\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the 1998 PEN Center USA West Translation Award for \u003ci\u003eA Bohemian Youth\u003c\/i\u003e by Josef Hirsal (Northwestern, 1997), is a professor of Slavic languages and literatures at UCLA. His other translations for Northwestern University Press include Dubravka Ugresic's \u003ci\u003eFording the Stream of Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e and Felix Roziner's \u003ci\u003eA Certain Finkelmeyer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 7.7 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 28, 1998\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757699596576,"sku":"9780810117099","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/76a15c9bf95b34cef67db853c86a4aa7.webp?v=1780109449","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/novel-with-cocaine-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}