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...outermost story is that of Sergei Rozanov, a Russian poet who travels to Gorky to sleep with a blind woman who'd written him a fan letter. The encounter becomes tiresome, yet Rozanov feels duty-bound to the entire night with the woman. In an attempt to make the hours pass, he improves a story for her on the theme of "improvisation...
...impervious force. Thomas achieves this unveiling partly through his language, which, though elegant and fragile, is not as colorful or as powerful as that in The White Hotel. Equally important are the characterizations. In The White Hotel, Lisa Erdman and Freud were a haunting, even inspiring pair, but Surkov, Rozanov and Finn run the gamut from merely distasteful to completely horrifying...
...squad: Anatoly I. Davydov, second secretary at the embassy; Victor F. Isakov, counselor; Vladimir A. Vikoulov, attache; Vadim Kuznetsov, an embassy official; Stanislov Kondrahov, an Izvestia reporter; Ikav Zavrazhnov and Alexander Kokorev, both embassy secretaries; Andre Kokoshin, librarian; Anotole Kotov, attache; and Embassy Officials Alexander Ereskovsky, Vladimir Trifonof, Alexander Rozanov and Valeri Ivanov...
With rib-cracking insight, Arkin plays Rozanov, leader of the scouting party that slips ashore to commandeer a launch and stays to persuade the island's crotchety nor'easterners that a full-scale invasion has begun. Taking over a tailor shop, subduing a telephone operator (Tessie O'Shea), Arkin's response to crisis is a cunning blend of caution, mad sweetness and reluctant acts of aggression, all booby-trapped with nuance about the love-hate relationship between East and West. Though many of his lines are in Russian (hastily acquired for this role), his Red-roving...