#Chevengur lb

[gotinterest]

I am going to go walk to the library to return this book now. I need to walk off that ending. I need to walk.

[gotinterest]

Once a worker had lost the feeling that drew him toward machines, once labor had ceased to be man’s second nature and become mere monetary need, it would be the end of the world

[gotinterest]

Why are you as a man holding onto another man- a complete stranger- to warm him as you both sleep in the uplands of Russia together

[gotinterest]

THEIR REUNION IS WRITTEN LIKE A DANMEI DRAMA ADAPTATION WHERE THEY WERE ALLOWED TO ACTUALLY GAY KISS

[gotinterest]

I see “Are women bourgeois?” is making an appearance in this novel

[gotinterest]

i hope this man dies ngl. wicked evil man.

[gotinterest]

hmm pee boy seems to be setting things up so he’s really the one in charge.

[gotinterest]

This scene of two men discussing communism in a barn that oddly feels like it's a one night stand scene is so

[gotinterest]

a little chevvie before bed then

[gotinterest]

CHARLIE YOU WEREN’T KIDDING ABOUT THEM KISSING WHY DID THEY DO THAT? THAT JUST HAPPENS. IT JUST HAPPENS, CHARLIE.

[gotinterest]

i do wish the footnotes were written at the bottom of the page instead of the back of the book, tbh.

[gotinterest]

PROSHKA WASNT THE PEE BOY I COMPLETELY MIXED HIM UP WITH THE CARPENTER’S SONS IFIFKFNEKDJKDLSKD

[gotinterest]

Sonia/Sofia as the ever-changing empty waiting woman who seems to have little agency of her own is such a deeply compelling figure though I’m not sure in the way that Platanov intended.

She isn’t really a person. She isn’t allowed to be, just as none of the women in this story are allowed to be people. They are barely allowed to be proper Communists or Bourgeois. The men are communists and bourgeois and proletariat and the women are just their wives, mothers, lovers who inherit those titles by extension. Every woman in the book is a symbol while the men are characters.

[gotinterest]

PIT FETISH?

[gotinterest]

I have like 74 pages left

[gotinterest]

I'm beginning to think that these guys don't view women as people