''Metropoliteno'' (trans. Subway, Underground, Metro) is a partly autobiographical
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in the University of East Anglia
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book catalogue. novel written in Esperanto
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by Vladimir Varankin
Vladimir Valentinovich Varankin (12 November 1902 – 3 October 1938) was a Soviet writer of literature in Esperanto, an instructor of western European history, and director of the Moscow Ped. Instituto for foreign languages. He wrote the nove ...
about suppression by the state in Germany
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and the Soviet Union
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. It was published in Amsterdam
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in 1933 (200 pages), again in Denmark
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in 1977, and a third edition in Russia
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in 1992. There also exist translations in Russian and in English. It is listed in William Auld
William Auld (6 November 1924 – 11 September 2006) was a British poet, author, translator and magazine editor who wrote chiefly in Esperanto.
Life
Auld was born at Erith in Kent, and then moved to Glasgow with his parents, attending Allan ...
's Basic Esperanto reading List.
"The theme is a soviet engineer, who travels to Berlin to study construction methods for subways (underground electrical railways) ... Modern life in the Soviet Union is mirrored beside that of pre-Hitlerite Germany." (F. E. W., ''The British Esperantist,'' November 1934.)
Footnotes
External links
Downloadable copy of the Esperanto text
References
*The first version of this article is a translation of the entry on ''Metropoliteno'' in the Esperanto Vikipedio. The first version of that entry was taken from the ''Encyclopedia of Esperanto''.
Esperanto novels
1933 novels
Novels by Vladimir Varankin
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