The Time is Night is a short novel by Liudmila Petrushevskaya. It is one of the few stories that I enjoy reading over and over again. The reason is that each time I re-read it, I perceive it in a slightly different way. The complicity of characters and the style of the novel is what I would like to emphasize most about the novel, as well as the fact that The Time is Night represents an outstanding social awareness of the author. As an introduction, Liudmila Petrushevskaya writes that what readers are about to see is a diary that was sent to her by the daughter of the author of the diary after her mother’s death. The notes that make up the diary are those of a woman, a poet, describing her living during the late 1980’s, her children and her 4-year-old grandson Tima whom she calls Baby. The woman’s name is Anna. It is very symbolic to her; when people a....

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