7/6/2023 0 Comments The dream life of sukhanovFor Sukhanov, it should be an enjoyable, maybe even a triumphant, celebration, given that much of his own career is built upon espousing the glory of artists like his father-in-law and the supremacy of the Soviet artistic endeavor. He is a major proponent of the Soviet artistic agenda, and his career has earned him a position of well-heeled stability and comfort, a ritzy apartment in Moscow with his beautiful wife and two grown children, a private chauffeur, a country house, and a surfeit of pastries and succulent, roasted chickens.Īs the novel opens, Sukhanov and his wife, Nina, are attending a retrospective honoring Nina’s father’s paintings. Anatoly Sukhanov, the fifty-six year old protagonist of Olga Grushin’s first novel, The Dream Life of Sukhanov, is a well-respected and affluent art critic and the editor of Russia’s premier art magazine, Art of the World.
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