Word: fyodor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Irresistible Fyodor. The Age of Longing is set in Paris, some time during "the middle 1950s." By that time, war has become an almost immediate certainty. Pocket Geiger-counters and protective radiation umbrellas are in all the shops. France and the rest of the West are more confused and divided than ever, helpless before the poised divisions of the "Commonwealth of Freedomloving People" (Russia). For Fyodor Nikitin, however, cultural attache at the Free Commonwealth embassy, life holds neither personal nor political problems. Communism is his crutch and his faith. When Paris nightclubs, dressing gowns and mistresses begin to turn...
Hydie, the conventtrained, divorced daughter of a U.S. Army colonel, finds Fyodor irresistible; he seems to her the only man of will, purpose and direction in sight. The rest are just silly Americans, broken refugees and ridiculous Paris intellectuals who bicker endlessly over brandies in trite dialectical lingo...
Communism, Hydie has been rootless ever since she gave up Catholicism. Hydie finds her substitute in an affair with Fyodor, whose lovemaking makes her feel "as if she had been run over by an express train." When his ruthlessness and a revelation of his mission show her the true nature of Communism (he is working up a Paris purge list against the day when his masters take over France), she shoots him, but merely wounds him. Fyodor is s.ent back to Russia to avoid a scandal, and Hydie gets ready to go back to the U.S. War is about...