Check your understanding of the satirical meaning of Bosoi's dream and the device of blending dream and reality.
Before the exercises
The main points: Bosoi is in the clinic and dreams of a “theater” where the audience is urged to surrender their foreign currency voluntarily, while the actor Kurolesov declaims the classics to shame them. It is satire on state coercion disguised as goodwill.
Lesson notes
The main points: Bosoi is in the clinic and dreams of a “theater” where the audience is urged to surrender their foreign currency voluntarily, while the actor Kurolesov declaims the classics to shame them. It is satire on state coercion disguised as goodwill.