Testament
| Title | Testament
a novel |
|---|---|
| Author | by R. C. Hutchinson |
| Publication | Cassell |
| Size | 732p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
English fiction--Diaries English fiction--Historical English fiction--War stories Revolutions--Russia Revolutionaries--Fiction Russia--History--Fiction |
| Notes | This huge novel is set in Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution. A prefatory note purports to explain that his book is based on a faithful adaptation, although with names changed, of a memoir given him in Paris by Captain Alexei Otraveskov. The vision in Testament is personal, from the ground up; there is no panorama, no sweep of history, and it gives a vivid sense of the sheer chaotic muddle of the revolution, and its dislocating and destructive terror. This is not a comfortable or indeed a comforting novel. However, its range and passionate vivacity are such that it should promote Hutchinson to the pantheon of British novelists of the twentieth century. [Emily Temple] |
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