The Commissariat of Enlightenment Paperback
by Ken Kalfus
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Ken Kalfus's mesmerising first novel is about two events that become milestones in the history of the modern media: the death of Tolstoy and the murder of Lenin.
One yound filmmaker was there. The story begins in 1910, as Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a railway station in provincial Russia.
Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public suddenly ravenous for celebrity news.
Cinema is the newcomer, and Nikolai Gribshin arrives to capture the extraordinary scene and learn how to wield his camera as a political tool.
At this historic moment, he comes across two men - the scientist, Professor Vorobev, and the revolutionist, Joseph Stalin - who have radical, mysterious plans for the future.
Soon they will accompany him on a long, cold march through an era of brutality and absurdity, as science struggles with superstition.
Brimming with intellect, humour, and rich, inventive storytelling, THE COMMISSARIAT OF ENLIGHTENMENT is a novel of ideas that brilliantly evokes the tragi-comic world of revolutionary Russia as well as the birth of today's image-based society.
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- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:02/02/2004
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- ISBN:9780743231152
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:304 pages
- Publisher:Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date:02/02/2004
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- ISBN:9780743231152