Sandro of chegem by fazil iskander biography

          Iskander spent decades writing the epic novel Sandro iz Chegema (Sandro of Chegem).!

          Iskander spent decades writing the epic novel Sandro iz Chegema (Sandro of Chegem), an unfinished collection of anecdotes loosely based on the often comic life.

        1. Iskander spent decades writing the epic novel Sandro iz Chegema (Sandro of Chegem), an unfinished collection of anecdotes loosely based on the often comic life.
        2. In a series of semi-independent tales, Iskander tells the year story of Uncle Sandro from the s to the s—and Sandro's story is also the story of the.
        3. Iskander spent decades writing the epic novel Sandro iz Chegema (Sandro of Chegem).
        4. Sandro is now eighty years old and has therefore lived through both Czarist and Soviet systems.
        5. Sandro of Chegem is a tamada (or captain of table) and renowned adventurer and storyteller.

          6. A writer who captures the Russian character;

          Sandro of Chegem by Fazil Iskander Translated from the Russian by Susan Brownsberger New York Ardis/Vintage Books 358 pp $9.95 Paperback.

          Fazil Iskander is one of the Soviet Union's most original and popular authors. Although he has lived in Moscow for two decades, he is highly regional. His home is the ancient land of Abkhazia in the Soviet Republic of Georgia.

          No doubt world interest in his writing has been largely muted by the obscurity of Abkhazia and its people, the subject of his fiction.

          But that has been our loss.

          Fazil Abdulovich Iskander (6 March – 31 July ) was a Soviet and Russian writer and poet known in the former Soviet Union for his descriptions of.

          For not since Turgenev's ''A Sportman's Sketches'' has the Russian character been presented with such humor and beauty.

          It would be all too easy to compare Mr. Iskander to Mark Twain, Swift, Gogol, and even Chaucer; he is very much in the tradition of irreverent, biting satire.

          But the writers who most readily bear comparison to him are Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Sherwood Anderson. In the ch