Howling Soviet Monsters
Tony Wood: Vladimir Sorokin, 30 June 2011
The Ice Trilogy
by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Jamey Gambrell.
NYRB, 694 pp., £12.99, April 2011,978 1 59017 386 2 Show More
by Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Jamey Gambrell.
NYRB, 694 pp., £12.99, April 2011,
Day of the Oprichnik
by Vladimir Sorokin.
Farrar, Straus, 191 pp., $23, March 2011,978 0 374 13475 4 Show More
by Vladimir Sorokin.
Farrar, Straus, 191 pp., $23, March 2011,
“... as if hi-tech limbs had been grafted onto the torso of early modern statecraft: Wolf Hall meets William Gibson. Komiaga begins his day by repressing a nobleman, and then spends the rest of it attending to a variety of tasks: censoring a play, investigating a subversive poem, resolving a customs dispute with the Chinese in Siberia, visiting a ... ”