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Happy Funeral
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(russia) Lyudmila Ulitskaya
The novella "Joyful Funeral" by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, a famous contemporary Russian writer, was published by the author in 1997. The book was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize for Literature. It has been translated into several languages and has been widely praised. The story of the novel takes place in August 1991. In a stuffy apartment in New York, a group of Russian Jewish immigrants gathered at the death bed of an artist named Alik. Alik was a charismatic character and people liked him. Ulitskaya delicately depicts their complex emotions toward the dying man and their recollections of life in Russia, which are constantly punctuated by arguments. At the same time, Ulitskaya also set some interesting questions in the novel: Who does Alik love most? Should he be baptized Orthodox before he dies, as his alcoholic wife Nina desperately wants, or should a rabbi reconstitute him into the Judaism of his birth?
The novella "Joyful Funeral" by Lyudmila Ulitskaya, a famous contemporary Russian writer, was published by the author in 1997. The book was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize for Literature. It has been translated into several languages and has been widely praised. The story of the novel takes place in August 1991. In a stuffy apartment in New York, a group of Russian Jewish immigrants gathered at the death bed of an artist named Alik. Alik was a charismatic character and people liked him. Ulitskaya delicately depicts their complex emotions toward the dying man and their recollections of life in Russia, which are constantly punctuated by arguments. At the same time, Ulitskaya also set some interesting questions in the novel: Who does Alik love most? Should he be baptized Orthodox before he dies, as his alcoholic wife Nina desperately wants, or should a rabbi reconstitute him into the Judaism of his birth?