wodehouse and tretyakov

Two different characters from different worlds: however PGW was not unaware of Russia; in Clicking of Cuthbert he discusses it at length; a place of novels of the utmost misery and where a fellow could expect a brace of bombs coming through the window. PGW and Tretyakov both shared an interest in Futurism. Tretyakov wanted to depict Communism's glowing future, a possible future Utopia. According to Evelyn Waugh Blandings Castle is the original garden (of Eden) from which we are exiled. His characters are still in Eden. Two ideal futures then, equally Utopian and unattainable but with very different biographies. PGW died in a comfortable hospital bed with his final manuscript by his side; Tretyakov threw himself off the landing at Butyrki prison to escape Stalin's torturers; at around this moment Brecht was considering Tretyakov as a possible member of his Society of Productive Writers (the Diderot club). Hito Steyerl's installation In Free Fall starts with a reference to Tretyakov's Biography of an object and goes on to note that he himself became a falling object-in Butyrki prison