Stet

Fiction. STET tells the life story of Stet, a filmmaker from Soviet Leningrad, who is sent for his artistic crimes to a prison camp in the 1960's, and dies there without having produced much more than a single film. Narrated in an extravagant third-person voice that emulates the sound and attitude of the classic "Russian Novel,"—opinionated, discursive, soulful—the novel depicts the fate of the artist, or of the individual, in any society. It imagines a world where we do not live by our jud...