The SovLit.com team of shock-worker translators have been hard at
work and have produced a translation of Yuri Nagibin's story "Light
in the Window."
Originally appearing in 1956 at the height of The Thaw in the blockbuster anthology Literary Moscow - Volume Two, "Light in the Window" lashed out at the wasteful, pointless, and just plain unfair privilege enjoyed by the elite. Specifically, it tells of a luxury suite of rooms kept vacant at a rest home for an unnamed bigwig, who never shows up. Angered by this wasteful injustice, some rest home workers take it upon themselves to put the rooms to good use. When he finds out about this, the director of the rest home of course throws out the interlopers, although deep in his heart he knows that they acted correctly.
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