![]() ![]() If I should ever have any children, I’ll hang on their wall a portrait of the Procurator of Judaea, Pontius Pilate, so that they will grow up neat and clean. That’s the kind of eyes they have in the world of Filthy Lucre.Īnd the travelled distance corresponds to the consumed liquor… And the more one drinks the stranger becomes the world and the more enigmatic turns reality… Devaluation, unemployment, pauperism… People look at you distrustfully, with restless anxiety and torment. You can imagine what the eyes are like where everything is bought and sold – deeply hidden, secretive, predatory and frightened. This instills in me a feeling of legitimate pride. I like that my country’s people have such empty, bulging eyes. The other passengers looked at me almost indifferently with their round, vacant eyes. And some local travels can be much more exotic than any voyages around the world… While travelling one may encounter a lot of intriguing fellow commuters… ![]() Oh, the irretrievable! What’s worse about this burden which no one has yet called by any name, what’s worse – paralysis, or nausea? Nervous exhaustion or mortal sorrow somewhere in the region of the heart? But, if that all equal, then all the same what’s worse about it – tetanus, or fever?Īnd using commuter rail the hero embarks on the epochal suburban journey. Oh, that morning burned in the heart! Oh, the illusory nature of calamity. The protagonist awakens to a fine and crisp morning full of freshness… Moscow to the End of the Line is written in a gloomy but frilly vers libre. Genre of drinking songs is known since the ancient times and by writing his drinking poem Venedikt Erofeev managed to widen boundaries of the genre significantly. During the trip, the hero recounts some of the fantastic escapades he participated in, including declaring war on Norway, and charting the drinking habits of his colleagues when leader of a cable laying crew. It is an account of a journey from Moscow to Petushki (Vladimir Oblast) by train, a journey soaked in alcohol. Yerofeyev is best known for his 1969 poem in prose Moscow-Petushki (several English translations exist, including Moscow to the End of the Line and Moscow Stations). Later he studied in several more institutes in different towns including Kolomna and Vladimir but he has never managed to graduate from any, usually being expelled due to his "amoral behaviour" (freethinking).īetween 19 Yerofeyev lived without propiska in towns in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania, also spending some time in Uzbekistan and Tadjikistan, doing different low-qualified and underpaid jobs. He managed to enter the philology department of the Moscow State University but was expelled from the University after a year and a half because he did not attend compulsory military training. ![]()
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