Article: Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire.(Review)(Brief Article)

Jose Manuel Prieto. Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire. Trans. Thomas and Carol Christensen. Grove, 2000. 322 pp. $24.00.

Prieto tells the hidden story of the cold war's frantic swan song. Like Nabokov in Sebastian Knight, he gives us a V. and a quest; like Pynchon, he searches amid literary burrowings and apocalyptic agitation. Going from Cuba to Novosibirsk in 1986, the author can report on what, for American readers, is the other side of history. Prieto renders the incongruous into the irresistible. The narrator wanders through ruins, looking for his lost love and the shards of his own consciousness. The woman is no longer there, and when she was there she was ...

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