A School for Fools is a novel written by Sasha Sokolov

Sasha Sokolov

Sasha Sokolov is a paradoxical writer of Russian literature....

 in the 1960s. "A School for Fools" was first circulated via 'samizdat

Samizdat

Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader...

,' or self-publication through underground connections. However, the novel was formally published in 1976 in U.S. (tamizdat). Школа для дураков is often classified as a work of phantasmagoric modernism

Modernism

Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement, its set of cultural tendencies and array of associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society...

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Characters

-The Narrator (unnamed).

-Nymphea Alba.

-Those Who Came.

-The narrator’s Father.

-The narrator’s Mother.

-Pavel Petrovich.

- Mikheev.

- Norvegov.

- Yakov and Sheina Emmanuilovich.

-Savl.

-Veta Acatova.

-Arcady Arcadievich Acatov.

Themes and Motifs

-Perspective

Point of view (literature)

The narrative mode is the set of methods the author of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical story uses to convey the plot to the audience. Narration, the process of presenting the narrative, occurs because of the narrative mode...

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-Time

Time

Time is a part of the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as the motions of objects....

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-Narrative Voice.

-Sanity

Sanity

Sanity refers to the soundness, rationality and healthiness of the human mind, as opposed to insanity. A person is sane if they are rational...

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