A sparky, dashing translation by Bryan Karetnyk... The comedy is sprightly and even silly [...] but it takes a darker turn as the story progresses. It can’t end well — and it doesn’t — but Cynics delivers an awful lot of fun along the way
John Self, The Times
About Anatoly Marienhof
Anatoly Marienhof (1897–1962) was a poet, novelist, dramatist and memoirist. Marienhof became a leading figure of the avant-garde Imaginist movement, and was the author of the novels The Novel without Lies (1926) and Cynics (1928).
