Trapped in an existential storm, Vladimir Sorokin’s characters fight their way across a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov’s Russian countryside as it does to the postapocalyptic terrain of science fiction. Hypnotic, fascinating, and richly drawn, The Blizzard is a seminal work from one of the most inventive authors writing today. Sorokin has created yet another boldly original work, which combines /5(30). · Trapped in an existential storm, Vladimir Sorokin’s characters fight their way across a landscape that owes as much to Chekhov’s Russian countryside as it does to the postapocalyptic terrain of science fiction. Hypnotic, fascinating, and richly drawn, The Blizzard is a seminal work from one of the most inventive authors writing today. Sorokin has created yet another boldly original work, which . Set during an unremitting blizzard in rural Russia, The Blizzard by Vladimir Sorokin, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell, mixes realism with magical realism and includes elements of the The Odyssey and Gulliver's Travels. The plot is straightforward/5.
Vladimir Sorokin is the author of eleven novels, including Day of the Oprichnik (FSG, ), Ice Trilogy, and The Queue; thirteen plays, and numerous short stories and www.doorway.ru wrote the libretto for Leonid Desyatnikov's The Children of Rosenthal, the first opera to be commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater in a quarter www.doorway.ru books have been translated into thirty languages. The journey at the heart of Vladimir Sorokin's satirical novel, The Blizzard, is replete with obstacles and impediments that typify the motif in hundreds, if not thousands, of narratives, from. The Blizzard: A Novel - Kindle edition by Sorokin, Vladimir, Gambrell, Jamey. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Blizzard: A Novel.
Sorokin’s hero, Garin, is a doctor trying to get to Dolgoye, where people are being afflicted with a virus that turns them into zombies. Yes, zombies — and he has the vaccine. The author’s blend of realism with the fantastic — and the hallucinatory — make The Blizzard an Odyssey through a bizarre, irreverently-conceived world. The protagonist of Sorokin’s “The Blizzard” is also a doctor, 42 years old, a pince-nez-wearing divorcé, unhappy, flawed, self-absorbed, well intentioned and ready for self-sacrifice in all. The Blizzard: Author: Vladimir Sorokin: Genre: Novel: Written: (Eng. ) Length: pages: Original in: Russian: Availability: The Blizzard - US: The Blizzard - UK: The Blizzard - Canada: The Blizzard - India: La tourmente - France: Der Schneesturm - Deutschland.
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