Tatyana Tolstaya
Paperback | Pages: 299 pages Rating: 3.82 | 3589 Users | 268 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Slynx |
| Author | : | Tatyana Tolstaya |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | NYRB Classics |
| Pages | : | Pages: 299 pages |
| Published | : | April 17th 2007 by NYRB (first published 2000) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Literature. Russian Literature |
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Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job — transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe — and though he doesn't enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he's not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he's happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he's managed — at least so far — to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond.Describe Books As The Slynx
| Original Title: | Кысь |
| ISBN: | 1590171969 (ISBN13: 9781590171967) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Benedikt |
| Literary Awards: | Премия «Триумф» (2001) |
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Ratings: 3.82 From 3589 Users | 268 ReviewsJudgment Based On Books The Slynx
I am a butcher. Only I dont work with meat, I work with words. Cutting, slicing, trimming. All for Vladimir, the great and powerful, and The Good Russian People. Give me War & Peace and Ill hand you back a pamphlet. Thats progress, comrades. When they gave me the job they said that I would be serving my country by preventing the spread or dissemination of dangerous materials. Most people dont realise how dangerous literature is. They focus too much on bombs and guns, and forget all about thei have a long and troubled relationship with the russians. for years i didn't want to read them because i felt that i wouldn't understand them with their troubled political history, their interchangeable names, their fucking ability to endure that is so intimidating and making-me-small-feeling. and then i read bulgakov. and i felt a little more confident...then i got a little older and i thought...maybe i'm ready for some dostoevsky...and then i wondered what i had been so worried about, because
I have little experience with Russian literature but what I have so far read, I have enjoyed immensely. I hope people with similar tastes as me do not read this book as their first foray into Russian literature. They might never return.Before mentioning my complaints, I will say that I respect Tolstaya's creativity. The world she created was at times interesting.The issues I have with this book are numerous and more than I am willing to cover here so I am providing a short list...that was not
Besides the meaning of the word "horripilating" ("the erection of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear or excitement"), found on the chocolate-and-lime backmatter of this book's NYRB edition, reading Tolstoya's vision of civilization's hilarious, underwhelming ashes gave me a feeling of gratitude, and also anger that the ostensible genre of this book will allow people to compare it to mechanic nightmares like 1984 and Animal Farm, or even the killer, terrorizing Road. But Russians don't do genre
No matter which way you look at it, The Slynx is a strange and furtive creature. Concocted by an obscure descendant of one of the Greats, this beast possesses a significance we instinctively fear. We feel it lodged in our bones, we feel it slithering between the tiny hairs on our arms and on the back of our necks, we feel it gnawing at the base of our minds, we feel it cocooning in our hearts. Some brave readers set out on the expedition to find its lair. A few came back, wide-eyed with wonder
A hallucination of a book, best explained as a cocktail. Its recipe runs as follows:1 part Allegory of the Cave2 parts Russian folktale2 parts whatever Bosch paintedBuild over a pile of dystopia.Stir and consume, preferably in one sitting.
Tatyana Tolstaya's The Slynx is a jewel among the list of classics published by New York Review Books, a post-apocalyptic satire taking place two hundred years after the Blast in what was the city of Moscow. Human society has reverted to a state more primitive than a village in the darkest age of medieval, dark-age Europe. And thats understatement - mice provide the main diet and are used for barter and trade; fire is a source of magic forcing people to rely on stokers to keep their stoves
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