A School for Fools

A School for Fools (Russian: Школа для дураков, Shkola dlya durakov) is a novel by Sasha Sokolov, first published in Ardis Publishing in 1976. The novel is often classified as a work of phantasmagoric postmodernism. Vladimir Nabokov called it "an enchanting, tragic, and touching work".

Characters
  • The Narrator (unnamed).
  • Nymphea Alba.
  • Those Who Came.
  • The narrator's Father.
  • The narrator's Mother.
  • Savl/Pavel Petrovich Norvegov.
  • Mikheev/Medvedev.
  • Yakov and Sheina Emmanuilovna Trachtenberg-Tinbergen.
  • Veta Acatova.
  • Arcady Arcadievich Acatov.
  • Rosa Windova.
  • Principal Perillo.

Themes and Motifs

-Perspective.

-Time.

-Narrative Voice.

-Sanity.


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