Farewell to Matyora
, by Rasputin, Valentin- ISBN: 9780810113299 | 0810113295
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 9/1/1995
A fine example of Village Prose from the post-Stalin era, Farewell to Matyora decries the loss of the Russian peasant culture to the impersonal, soulless march of progress. Valentin Rasputin's novel of a village destroyed by anonymous technology argues that mankind can only be spiritually regenerated by returning to the old rural way of life.