'' Taking Stock'' (russian: Предварительные итоги) is a 1970
novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itsel ...
by
Yury Trifonov
Yury Valentinovich Trifonov (russian: link=no, Юрий Валентинович Трифонов; 28 August 1925 – 28 March 1981) was a leading representative of the so-called Soviet "Urban Prose". He was considered a close contender for the No ...
. It is the second volume of his Moscow quintet.
[Josephine Woll - 1991 Invented Truth: Soviet Reality and the Literary Imagination of Iurii Trifonov
0822311518 " In The Exchange and Taking Stock Trifonov portrays an urbanized Soviet society that has become dominated by the meshchantsvo; in The Long Goodbye he shows the roots of that transformation, which occurred as the ideals of the "]
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1970 novels
Novels by Yury Trifonov
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