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Amy C. Singleton, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997, x + 193 pp, $17.95. Amy Singleton's book attempts to establish theoretically, and test on four Russian novels, the [...]

Author Andrei Bitov's novel 'Penelopa' revolves around a man and a woman who got acquainted in a cinema that shows a motion picture based on Homer's 'Odyssey.' The protagonists identify with the characters in the film, but not completely. The woman, who seems to have just been released from a detention camp, has ulterior motives in desiring the man's company. She needs someone to help her find a job. The man, on the other hand, identifies with the film's Odysseus, but sees his female partner as vastly short of the charms portrayed in the film's heroine.