A Hunt for Optimism Russia born in Paris

born in Paris

never willing to compromise his ideals

the best of the author's three novels

Is he an urban dandy or rural hack

and taught at Olivet College in Michigan

A Hunt for Optimism Russia born in ParisA Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Begun in 1929 under the title "New Prose," and drastically revised after Vladimir Mayakovsky's sudden death, A Hunt for Optimism (1931) circles obsessively around a single scene of interrogation in which a writer is subjected to a show trial for his unorthodoxy. Using multiple perspectives,