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The Captive of the Caucasus (1994) - Simon - 12-16-2025
Not a book actually. Short story most likely. Age of the young captive is not clear, I guess it is something around 16-18 years. The controversial theme in controversial place and time. A quite rare theme for Russian literature. Nevertheless this is a high literature of the famous writer. At the end of the book I added the original Russian text.
"The Captive of the Caucasus", is the latest in a long line of stories, both literary and cinematic, which attempt to portray and even explain Russia’s long and still troubled relationship with its southern neighbors. At the same time, its depiction of the futility and tedium of war deliberately evokes not only the Vietnam film, but also works both of cinematic and literary traditions which stretch back to World War I, or even Tolstoi’s "Sevastopol Stories" (In fact, the film was shot in the Crimea). (And Pechorin was, of course, fighting Chechens in "A Hero of Our Time", as long ago as 1840.)