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Original Title:	Москва — Петушки
ISBN:	0810112000 (ISBN13: 9780810112001)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	Petushki(Russian Federation) U.S.S.R.

Moscow to the End of the Line

Venedikt Erofeev

Paperback | Pages: 164 pages

Rating: 4.05 | 8523 Users | 368 Reviews

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Genre of drinking songs is known since the ancient times and by writing his drinking poem Venedikt Erofeev managed to widen boundaries of the genre significantly. Moscow to the End of the Line is written in a gloomy but frilly vers libre.
The protagonist awakens to a fine and crisp morning full of freshness…

Oh, that morning burned in the heart! Oh, the illusory nature of calamity. Oh, the irretrievable! What’s worse about this burden which no one has yet called by any name, what’s worse – paralysis, or nausea? Nervous exhaustion or mortal sorrow somewhere in the region of the heart? But, if that all equal, then all the same what’s worse about it – tetanus, or fever?

And using commuter rail the hero embarks on the epochal suburban journey. And some local travels can be much more exotic than any voyages around the world… While travelling one may encounter a lot of intriguing fellow commuters…

The other passengers looked at me almost indifferently with their round, vacant eyes.
I like that. I like that my country’s people have such empty, bulging eyes. This instills in me a feeling of legitimate pride. You can imagine what the eyes are like where everything is bought and sold – deeply hidden, secretive, predatory and frightened. Devaluation, unemployment, pauperism… People look at you distrustfully, with restless anxiety and torment. That’s the kind of eyes they have in the world of Filthy Lucre.

And the travelled distance corresponds to the consumed liquor… And the more one drinks the stranger becomes the world and the more enigmatic turns reality…

If I should ever have any children, I’ll hang on their wall a portrait of the Procurator of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, so that they will grow up neat and clean. Procurator Pontius Pilate standing there washing his hands – that’s the right kind of portrait.

Even the most hopeless boozers must have their romantic ideals…

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Title	:	Moscow to the End of the Line
Author	:	Venedikt Erofeev
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 164 pages
Published	:	July 1st 1992 by Northwestern University Press (first published 1969)
Categories	:	Cultural. Russia. Fiction. Literature. Russian Literature. Classics

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One of the most *beautiful* books I've ever read, hands down. Through a haze of alcohol, Soviet repression, and the hypnotic rhythm of a subway journey, Erofeev turns his drunken slapstick into brilliant satire, his own maudlin self pity into the lyrically transcendent.

I've read this book 'bout 1 000 times. It's ultimate answer to your pain, depress and even happiness.

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The book is a tragic-comic account of the narrator's (fictional?) trip from Moscow to Petuschki. The first half of the book isoften very funny. The narrator's biggest worry is how to get his next drink - in fact, I don't think I've ever read a book in which anyone ever had that many drinks. And the characters drink everything: they even mix their own cocktails adding for example petrol or nail polish! The book also talks a lot about the drinking habits of several authors (mainly Russian ones).

A recently fired alcoholic man rambles about stuff with passengers of a train while on his way somewhere. Funny book, had me smiling all the way through, and my liver hurtin' from so much booze talk.