sleeping family. By the end of the novel, however, the title comes to symbolize the loneliness and alienation Anna experiences at night after her family, no longer able to stand her forceful presence, leaves her. Development history There is some conjecture that the inspiration for the relationships and feelings presented in The Time: Night came from Petrushevskaya's childhood experience living with her family in Kuybyshev. When Petrushevskaya was five, her mother returned to Moscow while she remained in Kuybyshev with other family members to suffer the hardships of poverty and famine. Publication history Originally published in Russian in Novy Mir, No. 2, 1992. Copyright 1992 by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya. First published in English in 1994 by Pantheon Books, New York, and Virago Press Limited, London. English translation copyright 1994 by Sally Laird. Reprinted 2000 by arrangement with Pantheon Books, a division of Random House, Inc. English Editions: 1994, United States of America, Pantheon Books, , Pub Date 23 August 1994 1994, United Kingdom, Virago Press, Limited, , Pub Date 1994 2000, United States of America, Northwestern University Press, , Pub Date 11 October 2000 Adaptations No notable efforts have yet been made toward a film adaptation of The Time: Night. However, Petrushevskaya scholar Helena Goscilo has noted a thematic similarity between Petrushevskaya's work and the films of Russian director Kira Muratova. References Further reading Parts, Lyudmila. "Down the Intertextual Lane: Petrushevskaia, Chekhov, Tolstoy," Russian Review, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), 77–89. Print. Vladiv-Glover, Slobodanka. "The New Mode of Discourse in Post-Soviet Russian Fiction: Liudmila Petrushevskaia and Tatiana Tolstaia." Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture. Berghahn, 1999. 227–98, 492. Print. Cornwell, Neil. The Routledge Companion to Russian Literature. Psychology Press, 2001. Print. External links Josephine Wall, "The Minotaur in the Maze: Remarks on Lyudmila Petrushevskaya" Connor Doak, "Babushka Writes Back: Grandmothers and Grandchildren in Liudmila Petrushevskaia's Time: Night" "Russia's Last Writer," article on Petrushevskaya in the Financial Times Profile of Petrushevskaya expert Helena Goscilo, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh The Literary Encyclopedia entry on Petrushevskaya "Sometimes a Small Redemption: On Ludmilla Petrushevskaya" from The Nation magazine, 2 Dec. 2009 Publishers Weekly review of The Time: Night 20th-century Russian novels 1992 novels Satirical novels Novels about writers Black comedy books Novels set in Russia Works originally published in Novy Mir Novels set in Moscow de:Meine Zeit ist die Nacht