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A review by drskdsrihari
There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby: Scary Fairy Tales by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
4.0
This is a collection of nineteen short stories that reflect the agony, suffering and helplessness of the ordinary Russian citizen ,especially women in the past decades.
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To understand Ludmilla's writing ,it is crucial to understand her native country ,Russia and it's people .This is a harsh country with a history of harsh governments ,harsh weathers ,harsh famines and harsh revolutions and people who have managed to survive through it all .Ludmilla ,herself, never had it easy .She grew up in Bolshevik Russia in communal apartments and homes ,because her father abandoned the family.Although ,she began writing in the 1960s ,her work was censored ,maybe because her prose is utterly sincere and reflects bitter truths๐ .The publication of her works and the due recognition arrived only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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All her characters find themselves stuck in a tunnel forged out of misery,loss,death,hunger and try to escape desperately.They ultimately see the light at the end and manage to come out ,only to discover that they have lost a vital part of themselves in the journey. Every character has a sad tale.Every character is desperate to survive.Every character drifts between different worlds.Her stories were haunting and foreboding and I definitely want to read more.
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To understand Ludmilla's writing ,it is crucial to understand her native country ,Russia and it's people .This is a harsh country with a history of harsh governments ,harsh weathers ,harsh famines and harsh revolutions and people who have managed to survive through it all .Ludmilla ,herself, never had it easy .She grew up in Bolshevik Russia in communal apartments and homes ,because her father abandoned the family.Although ,she began writing in the 1960s ,her work was censored ,maybe because her prose is utterly sincere and reflects bitter truths๐ .The publication of her works and the due recognition arrived only after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the 1980s.
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All her characters find themselves stuck in a tunnel forged out of misery,loss,death,hunger and try to escape desperately.They ultimately see the light at the end and manage to come out ,only to discover that they have lost a vital part of themselves in the journey. Every character has a sad tale.Every character is desperate to survive.Every character drifts between different worlds.Her stories were haunting and foreboding and I definitely want to read more.