Vladimir Sorokin

Desjat let nazad metel pomeshala doktoru Garinu dobratsja do sela Dolgogo i privit ego zhitelej ot bolivijskogo virusa, kotoryj prevraschaet ljudej v zombi. Doktor chudom ne zamerz nasmert v beskrajnej snezhnoj stepi, chtoby vernutsja v postapokalipticheskij mir, gde ego patsientami stanut samye smeshnye i bespomoschnye suschestva na Zemle, v proshlom - lidery mirovykh derzhav. Etot mir, gde vyrezajut chasy iz kamnja i ajfony iz dereva, - entsiklopedija sorokinskoj antiutopii, uverenno nadeljajuschej buduschee chertami dremuchego proshlogo. Nesmotrja na privychnuju ironiju i parodijnye otsylki k russkomu prozaicheskomu kanonu, "Doktora Garina" otlichaet oschutimo novyj uroven trevogi: gulag bolotnykh chernyshej, pobochnogo produkta sovetskogo eksperimenta, okazyvaetsja postrashnee atomnoj bomby. Esche odno radikalnoe obnovlenie - pronzitelnyj lirizm. Na oblomkakh razrushennoj vselennoj staromodnyj doktor vstretit, poterjaet i vnov obretet svoju edinstvennuju ljubov, chtoby lechit ee do kontsa svoikh dnej.

Long-listed for the 2016 PEN Translation PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A dazzling, utterly distinctive saga from the internationally celebrated and controversial novelist Vladimir Sorokin, "the shock jock of Russian letters" (Harper's). "Vladimir Sorokin is] Russia's most inventive contemporary author . . . Gambrell's] translation is as elegant, playful and layered as the original." --Masha Gessen, The New York Times Book Review Garin, a district doctor, is desperately trying to reach the village of Dolgoye, where a mysterious epidemic is turning people into zombies. He carries with him a vaccine that will prevent the spread of this terrible disease, but is stymied in his travels by an impenetrable blizzard. A trip that should last no more than a few hours turns into a metaphysical journey, an expedition filled with extraordinary encounters, dangerous escapades, torturous imaginings, and amorous adventures. 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 an avant-garde sensibility with a taste for the absurd and the grotesque, all while delivering stinging truths about contemporary life and modern-day Russia.

Presenting a wide variety of genres and tones, The Sugar Kremlin lays out a frightening vision of speculative mercilessness and carnivalesque political horror. The Sugar Kremlin is the follow-up to Vladimir Sorokin’s Day of the Oprichnik, taking place in the same New Medieval universe over the course of fifteen chapters that all return to the object of the title: replicas of the Moscow Kremlin made of sugar. Thousands of these creations are given away to children during the holidays, then make their way through each stratum of Russian society. We follow the trajectories of these candied gifts from the hands of harried paupers to secret political dissidents, from torture-obsessed civil servants to sex workers in a nearby bordello... As Sorokin shifts from story to story and style to style, he draws the reader through grotesquely Russian scenes, creating an aberrantly metaphysical encyclopedia of the New Medieval "Russian soul." The candy's sweetness is deceptive—underneath it, you may detect notes of blood.

Vladimir Sorokin napisal novuju pritchu - dikuju, charujuschuju i bezzhalostnuju. V romane "Skazka" ozhivaet mrachnaja postapokalipticheskaja Rossija, gde musornye polja stanovjatsja territoriej nadezhdy, a puteshestvie po svalke - putjom k sakralnomu preobrazheniju. Mir posle katastrofy skazochno nesurazen, no iz ego panoptikuma prorastajut vechnye smysly: smert i vozrozhdenie, vera i otchajanie, tlen i novaja utopija. Sorokin provodit chitatelja skvoz ochischajuschij absurd: ot uzhasajuschej prozy tlena do probleskov blagodati. "Skazka" - novyj epos o russkom soznanii: porochnom i svetlom, unizhennom i mechtajuschem. Avtor vnov konstruiruet buduschee kak allegoricheskij koshmar, no i dajot chitatelju shans - strashnyj, no edinstvenno vozmozhnyj.

Vladimir Sorokin napisal novuju pritchu - dikuju, charujuschuju i bezzhalostnuju. V romane "Skazka" ozhivaet mrachnaja postapokalipticheskaja Rossija, gde musornye polja stanovjatsja territoriej nadezhdy, a puteshestvie po svalke - putjom k sakralnomu preobrazheniju. Mir posle katastrofy skazochno nesurazen, no iz ego panoptikuma prorastajut vechnye smysly: smert i vozrozhdenie, vera i otchajanie, tlen i novaja utopija. Sorokin provodit chitatelja skvoz ochischajuschij absurd: ot uzhasajuschej prozy tlena do probleskov blagodati. "Skazka" - novyj epos o russkom soznanii: porochnom i svetlom, unizhennom i mechtajuschem. Avtor vnov konstruiruet buduschee kak allegoricheskij koshmar, no i dajot chitatelju shans - strashnyj, no edinstvenno vozmozhnyj.

V sbornik "Normalnaja istorija" voshli stati i esse Vladimira Sorokina, napisannye i vykhodivshie v 2010? e. V nekhudozhestvennoj proze avtor ne izmenjaet ljubimym temam: eda i pite kak projavlenija natsionalnogo kharaktera, Moskva i Berlin, vzaimoproniknovenie zhizni i literatury. Iz nebolshikh zametok vyrisovyvaetsja sotkannyj iz detalej ctilja i byta tochnyj portret dvukhtysjachnykh, neumolimo stanovjaschikhsja proshedshej epokhoj. Osobogo vnimanija dostojny teksty o khudozhestvennoj srede vosmidesjatykh, sformirovavshej Sorokina kak pisatelja. Nazyvaja poslednee desjatiletie suschestvovanija SSSR "razryvnym vremenem", kogda "protsess stal tesnit sostojanie", Sorokin pokazyvaet, kak stremitelno razryvalo togda privychnuju kartinu mira, otkazyvalos ot ramok nepodtsenzurnoe iskusstvo. Eto svidetelstvo uchastnika "protsessa" tsenno ne tolko dlja istorikov iskusstva, no i dlja rjadovogo obyvatelja, u kotorogo vosmidesjatye assotsiirujutsja to li s beskonechnoj ocheredju, geroinej i sjuzhetom pervogo romana Sorokina, to li s partijnym sanatoriem. Dlja sovremennika, ne slyshavshego v te vremena imperskogo raspada o Prigove, Kabakove i moskovskom andegraunde.

Grotesque, deconstructive, and absolutely genius, Vladimir Sorokin’s short story collection Dispatches from the District Committee is a revelatory, offbeat portrait of Soviet life beyond the propaganda and state-sponsored realism. Celebrated—and censored—for its political satire, literary irreverence, and provocative themes, Sorokin's work has been recognized across the world for its scathing, darkly humorous commentary on political and cultural oppression in the Soviet Union and contemporary Russia. Dispatches from the District Committee brings together stories from Sorokin’s incendiary 1992 collection The First Subotnik/My First Working Saturday and elsewhere. Skillfully translated by Max Lawton, these stories remain subversive classics, and increasingly relevant in a post-truth information age.

Sbornik korotkoj prozy Vladimira Sorokina "Monoklon" napisan pochti v realisticheskoj manere. Sobytija: rasstrel v supermarkete, zachistka v kottedzhnom poselke, napadenie na veterana gosbezopasnosti pod zvuki marsha junykh patrio-tov na Leninskom prospekte - proiskhodjat v privychnykh de-koratsijakh i edva vykhodjat za ramki vozmozhnogo.Uglubljajas v podsoznanie sotrudnitsy izdatelstva, vete-rana, direktora magazina, gubernatora, pisatel issledu-et novye sotsialnye roli v Rossii dvukhtysjachnykh i novye ottenki v otnoshenijakh s proshlym. Nesmotrja na popytki usy-pit, pereinachit ili prosto zabyt ego, ono v ljubuju minutu mozhet okazatsja sovsem blizko, ogromnoe i chudovischnoe, kak doistoricheskij jascher.

V rannikh rasskazakh Vladimira Sorokina, napisannykh v 1979-1984 gg., legko razgljadet nachalo moschnogo stilisticheskogo eksperimenta, po suti tselogo literaturnogo napravlenija. Nazvanie "Pervyj subbotnik" - podkhodjaschaja metafora dlja togo, kak molodoj avtor oboshelsja s drjakhlevshim vmeste so stranoj klishirovannym ofitsialnym jazykom. Geroi kazhdogo iz rasskazov sbornika obrecheny: esli v nachale oni uspeshno mimikrirujut pod zhivykh ljudej, k kontsu ikh zhdet polnoe razlozhenie - oni prevraschajutsja v razroznennye vizualnye i rechevye atributy ili prosto v kuchku gniloj ploti.

In Russian. The book will complete the cycle of satirical dystopias about Dr. Garin, whose adventures began in the story "Blizzard", in the Russian wilderness affected by the Bolivian virus. The author depicts a new stage of post-apocalyptic decadence in a distant but recognizable future.

Novye rasskazy Vladimira Sorokina - o zhenschinakh: na vojne i v zhestokom mire, v obstojatelstvakh, vrazhdebnykh zhenskoj prirode.Nadziratelnitsa v kontslagere, buduschaja zvezda progressivnogo iskusstva, malenkaja devochka v sovetskoj bolnitse, junaja genialnaja shakhmatistka, perestroechnaja studentka i drugie geroini sbornika nepokhozhi mezhdu soboj, no imejut odno obschee: perezhitoe nasilie neobratimo menjaet ikh, no ne stiraet, a tolko obostrjaet ikh individualnost.Sorokin ostajotsja soboj - vystraivaet karnavalnye antiutopii, zhongliruet tsitatami iz kanonicheskoj russkoj literatury i oveschestvljaet metafory - i v to zhe vremja prodolzhaet dvigatsja v novom napravlenii. Vsjo bolshee sochuvstvie k svideteljam i nevolnym uchastnikam velikikh geopoliticheskikh dram, povestvovatelnost i lirizm, zadannye "Metelju" i prodolzhennye v "Doktore Garine", v "De feminis" osobenno zametny.Chutkij k dukhu vremeni i neizmenno operezhajuschij vremja v svoikh otsenkakh, Vladimir Sorokin vnjatno vystupaet protiv raschelovechivanija antagonistov.

En rasande skildring av Rysslands litterära stjärna. Vi talar om vodka, snö och blod – toppat med sex skedar socker!Ryssland 2028. Det råder ny medeltid, präglad av informationsteknologi och massfattigdom. Kroppsstraff är tidens melodi. Läsaren leds genom ett utopiskt ryskt rike tecknat av en ivrigt förvrängande spegel.I femton berättelser får vi lära känna hovnarrar, bödlar, tvångsarbetare, tiggare och oliktänkande – och Marfusja, som liksom tusentals andra barn på julhelgen får en modell av Kreml med murar, torn och portar helt gjorda av socker. Det är en tid då allt bränsle säljs utomlands, samtidigt som den Stora ryska muren reser sig allt högre för att skydda landet från yttre fiender och hissarna i flerbostadshusen står stilla på helgerna. Vardagen präglas av rädsla och våld. Vodka och droger är befolkningens enda glädje, men ofta får de fabrikstillverkade sockersmulorna duga gott när inget annat finns att tröstas av.Vladimir Sorokins vilda novellsamling Socker-Kreml är ett slags fristående fortsättning på hans anti-utopiska roman I det heliga Rysslands tjänst. Även här får vi möta en värld i vilken de värsta farhågorna om Ryssland – för ryssar och för alla andra – faktiskt har blivit verklighet.

"Ochered" - pervaja opublikovannaja kniga Vladimira Sorokina - uvidela svet v 1985 godu v Parizhe v izdatelstve "Sintaksis". V nej, kak i v rannikh rasskazakh avtora, otchetlivo vidny cherty grjaduschego eksperimenta nad russkoj prozoj, v khode kotorogo traditsionnye zhanry, sjuzhety i personazhi podvergnutsja radikalnoj transformatsii.V romane, polnostju sostojaschem iz prjamoj rechi, ochered - metafora chelovecheskoj zhizni voobsche. Delikatno, ne dokuchaja nazidanijami - naprotiv, razvlekaja prikljuchenijami geroev, - "Ochered" uchit, chto dlja dostizhenija tseli pochti vsegda nuzhny inye usilija, chem te, chto my prikladyvaem, da i tsel my nikogda ne vidim jasno. Beskonechnyj razgovor edva znakomykh mezhdu soboj ljudej nesluchajno nazvan romanom: kazhdaja replika, kak v bolshom prozaicheskom narrative, dobavljaet shtrikh k portretu epokhi i v to zhe vremja povisaet v vozdukhe, prinadlezhit vsem - i nikomu.

In Russian.The book will complete the cycle of satirical dystopias about Dr. Garin, whose adventures began in the story "Blizzard", in the Russian wilderness affected by the Bolivian virus. The author depicts a new stage of post-apocalyptic decadence in a distant but recognizable future.

V rasskazakh sbornika "Zaplyv", napisannykh v kontse 1970 -kh - nachale 1980 -kh godov, vidno stanovlenie sorokinskoj optiki. Zastyvshij sovetskij byt, ustalye, privykshie k dvoemysliju ljudi, zatertye ponjatija ozhivajut ot malejshej avtorskoj provokatsii. "Narodnoe khozjajstvo", "letuchka", "zaplyv" okazyvajutsja khrupkoj obolochkoj stradanija, burleska i absurda.Teksty sbornika ochen raznye - v odnikh neprivychna refleksija ot pervogo litsa ("Vatnik"), v drugikh - lakonichnost zhanra ("Stikhi i pesni", voshedshie v roman "Norma"); treti zhe - opyty issledovanija chelovecheskoj prirody na prostorakh totalitarnogo gosudarstva v dukhe zrelogo Sorokina ("Rozovyj kluben", "Dacha", "Padjozh").Kniga byla vpervye izdana v 2008 godu, kogda otsylki k sovetskomu metajazyku mogli chitatsja dazhe s nostalgicheskim chuvstvom. Segodnja tema razryva mezhdu slovom i smyslom snova porazitelno aktualna.

Provocative, hilarious, and tender stories about sex, violence, politics from one of the greatest Russian writers of the post-Soviet era. Red Pyramid is a sort of "greatest hits" collection of short stories from across Vladimir Sorokin's career, beginning with juvenilia like "The Pink Tuber," composed with no expectation of either publication or readership; moving on to scatological conceptual texts like "An Obelisk"; then plunging into the more even-tempered, but still quite uncanny, delights of his post-Soviet work. Stories like "A Month in Dachau" earn Sorokin his moniker as the "Russian De Sade," while others, like "Timka," are shockingly tender--despite their graphic depictions of mass shootings and anal sex. This collection also contains the infamous "Nastya," a story about a family cannibalizing its daughter on the eve of the twentieth century, for which Sorokin was nearly put on trial; "Horse Soup," which was the first translation from the Russian to win an O'Henry Prize; as well as stories published in Anglophone magazines such as The New Yorker, n+1, Harper's, and The Baffler to great acclaim. Translated by Max Lawton with equal attention to chewiness and pop flair, Red Pyramid is introduced brilliantly, brutally, and as always, unexpectedly by Will Self. Red Pyramid is perhaps the best place to begin a dive into Sorokin's arch detonation of Russian violence.

The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination. Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Lard is the most iconic and iconoclastic Russian novel of the last forty years. Thanks in part to its depiction of Stalin and Khrushchev having sex, which inspired a Putinist youth group to throw shredded copies of the author's books into an enormous toilet erected in front of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, Blue Lard is the novel that tore Sorokin out of the Moscow Conceptualist underground and into the headlines. The book begins in a futuristic laboratory where genetic scientists speak in a Joycean dialect of Russian mixed with Chinese--peppered with ample neologisms--and work to clone famous Russian writers, who are then made to produce texts in the style of their forebears. The goal of this "script-process" is not the texts themselves, but the blue lard that collects in the small of their backs as they write. This substance is to be used to power reactors on the moon--that is, until a sect of devout nationalists breaks in to steal the blue lard, planning to send it back in time to an alternate version of the Soviet Union, one that exists on the margins of a Europe conquered by a long-haired Hitler with the ability to shoot electricity from his hands. What will come of this blue lard? Who will finally make use of its mysterious powers? Blue Lard is a stylistically acrobatic book, translated by Max Lawton into an English idiom just as bizarre as the Russian original. Evoking both Pulp Fiction and the masterpieces of the Marquis de Sade, Sorokin's novel is a brutal, heady trip that annihilates all of its twentieth- (and twenty-first-) century competition in the Russian canon--and that annihilates Russia itself in a resounding act of heavy-metal dissidence.

Moskva, 2027: En eneveldig monark er kommet til makten. Russland har bygget en høy mur mot Vest-Europa; bare gassledninger slipper gjennom. I stedet har landet alliert seg med Kina. Både ytre og indre fiender bekjempes skånselsløst av «opritsjnikene», herskerens egen sikkerhetstjeneste. Vi følger opritsjniken Komjaga gjennom et hektisk døgn i statens tjeneste – gjennom henrettelser og ildspåsettelser, rituelle voldtekter og spåkonebesøk, badstueorgier og gullfiskrus.Vladimir Sorokin (f. 1955) er en av Russlands mest leste og omdiskuterte forfattere. Sorokins bøker er utgitt på en rekke språk, og fire av hans romaner er hittil utgitt på norsk.

I Snøstormen følger vi legen Platon Iljitsj Garin, som er på vei til en avsidesliggende landsby med en viktig vaksine. Han får skyss av den noe enfoldige kjørekaren Harken, men blir bremset av en fryktelig snøstorm. Skjønt Garin skal snart få annet enn været å bekymre seg for: Underveis blir han distrahert av en lubben møllerkone, seks etasjer høye kjemper og små glasspyramider med fascinerende innhold … Og hva slags pest er det egentlig som venter ham bortenfor snøvirvlene?Vladimir Sorokins nye roman er dels eventyrfortelling, dels pastisj, dels satire over autoritære trekk ved dagens Russland. Hans særegne «retrofuturisme» – blandingen av arkaiske former og rene science fiction-elementer – har aldri vært strammere tilskrudd. Snøstormen er et mesterverk fra Russlands mest omdiskuterte forfatter.