Yuri Trifonov’s The Moscow Cycle: A Critical Study

Outlines Trifonov’s subtle adaptations of conventional socialist realism to promote a discreet internal criticism of social shortcomings during several decades of Soviet administration. The study discusses the five novellas and one novel comprising Trifonov’s “Moscow Cycle”: “The Exchange”; “Taking Stock”; “The Long Goodbye”; “Another Life”; “The House on the Embankment”; and “The Time and the Place”.