Tolstaya Tatyana - The Slynx - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: New in Paperback A postmodern literary masterpiece. The Times Literary Supplement 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. Tatyana Tolstaya's The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov's Pale Fire and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia's past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.
Title: The Slynx
Author(s): Tolstaya Tatyana
Publisher: The New York Review Of Books Inc
Barcode: 9781590171967
Pages: 320 Pages
Publication Date: 4/17/2007
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction