The tragic menagerie
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The tragic menagerie
（European classics）
Northwestern University Press, c1999
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Tragicheskiĭ zverinet︠s︡
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Tragicheskiĭ zverinet︠s︡
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Includes bibliographical references (p. xxii)
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Description
Though published a decade before the Bolshevik Revolution, The Tragic Menagerie possesses a sensibility that is modern in its descriptions of a childhood of passionate affections and unsettling revelations. This fictionalized autobiography follows the tomboyish Vera, who counts among her friends bears, wolves, and a wild crane, as well as local peasant girls. Sent to a German boarding school and exiled from her kingdom, Vera turns into a demonic, disobedient student, rejecting a life she finds constraining and artificial. Only when she returns to her natural world can her deeper compassionate and imaginative self emerge.
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