Blue Lard
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Blue Lard
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Author : Vladimir Sorokin
language : en
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Release Date : 2024-02-27
Blue Lard written by Vladimir Sorokin and has been published by New York Review of Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with Fiction categories.
Blue Lard is an act of desecration. Blue Lard is what's left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of Communism. Denounced as an abomination on publication in 1999—a crowd of angry Putin supporters gathered in front of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater to toss shredded copies of Sorokin’s books into an enormous papier-mâché toilet—this ferocious takedown of Russian greatness has since found its way into the canon of Russian literature itself. The book begins in a futuristic laboratory where genetic scientists speak in a dialect of Russian mixed with Chinese. There they 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? Max Lawton’s translation of Blue Lard, the first into English, captures this key work in all its grotesque, havoc-making, horrifying, visceral intensity.
Chinese Soft Power In Vladimir Sorokin S Blue Lard And Day Of The Oprichnik
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Author : Simon Vincent Prado
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
Chinese Soft Power In Vladimir Sorokin S Blue Lard And Day Of The Oprichnik written by Simon Vincent Prado and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Slavic literature categories.
Depictions of China and Chinese culture and influence are prominent in Vladimir Sorokin's fiction from the late 1990s to the early 2000s. This thesis argues that Sorokin's depictions of China are based off of actual geopolitical occurrences from that time period. More specifically, this thesis argues that Sorokin's depictions of China are representative of many of the 'soft power' strategies China has employed on the international stage since the 1990s, including the use of both cultural and economic soft power tools. This thesis examines two novels by Sorokin which have significant depictions of Chinese soft power influence: Blue Lard (1999), and Day of the Oprichnik (2006). In both novels, China has achieved great cultural and economic successes similar to those successes experienced by the real-world China since it began its 'peaceful rise' in the 1990s. China is depicted as being a dominant cultural and economic force, as Chinese language and culture are privileged by the societies in these novels. Conversely, Russia is depicted as backwards, while Russian language, literature, and culture are not afforded the same prestige as Chinese. These depictions of the futuristic relationships between China and Russia are indicative of Sorokin's awareness of China's real-world growing geopolitical soft power influence and the belief that China may indeed rise to become the dominant world power, while Russia's increased authoritarianism may lead to it occupying an inferior position on the world stage.
Other Russias
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Author : B. Baer
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2009-04-13
Other Russias written by B. Baer and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-13 with Social Science categories.
This book examines the unprecedented explosion of homosexual discourse in post-Soviet Russia and details how homosexuality has come to signify a surprising and often contradictory array of uniquely post-Soviet concerns.
Energy Culture
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Author : Jillian Porter
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-04-06
Energy Culture written by Jillian Porter and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice. Chronologically arranged chapters explain how nineteenth-century ideas about energy informed realist novels and paintings; how the poetics of energy defined pre-Revolutionary and Stalinist utopianism; and how fossil fuels, electricity, and nuclear fission generated distinct aesthetic features in Imperial Russian, Soviet, and post-Soviet literature, cinema, and landscape. The volume’s concentration on Russia responds to a clear need to understand the role the country plays in social, political, and economic processes endangering life on Earth today. The cultural dimension of Russia’s efforts at energy dominance deserves increased scholarly attention not only in its own right, but also because it directly affects global energy policy. As the contributors to this volume argue, the nationally inflected cultural myths that underlie human engagements with energy have been highly consequential in the Anthropocene.
The Queue
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Author : Vladimir Sorokin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Queue written by Vladimir Sorokin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Russian fiction categories.
"Vladimir Sorokin’s first published novel, The Queue, is a sly comedy about the late Soviet “years of stagnation.” Thousands of citizens are in line for . . . nobody knows quite what, but the rumors are flying. Leather or suede? Jackets, jeans? Turkish, Swedish, maybe even American? It doesn’t matter–if anything is on sale, you better line up to buy it. Sorokin’s tour de force of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the whole story in snatches of unattributed dialogue, adding up to nothing less than the real voice of the people, overheard on the street as they joke and curse, fall in and out of love, slurp down ice cream or vodka, fill out crossword puzzles, even go to sleep and line up again in the morning as the queue drags on."--Amazon.com.
Pork Operations
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Author : American Meat Institute. Committee on Textbooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Pork Operations written by American Meat Institute. Committee on Textbooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Pork industry and trade categories.
Pop Culture Russia
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Author : Birgit Beumers
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2005-06-21
Pop Culture Russia written by Birgit Beumers and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06-21 with Social Science categories.
A revealing look at contemporary Russian popular culture, exploring the historical and social influences that make it unique. Pop music is only one aspect of contemporary Russian culture that has taken some unexpected turns in the chaotic aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse. Television and advertising, theater and cinema, athletics and religion, even fashion and food now reflect more exposure to the West, yet remain in essence distinctively Russian. Pop Culture Russia! introduces readers to the fascinating, often surprising, post-Soviet cultural landscape. With chapters on media, the arts, recreation, religion, and consumerism, the book offers an insightful survey of Russian mass culture from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the present, exploring the historical significance of important events and trends, as well as the social and political contexts from which they emerged.
Journal Of The Society Of Chemical Industry
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Author : Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Journal Of The Society Of Chemical Industry written by Society of Chemical Industry (Great Britain) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Chemical industry categories.
Includes list of members, 1882-1902 and proceedings of the annual meetings and various supplements.
By Products Of The Meat Packing Industry
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Author : American Meat Institute. Committee on Textbooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1950
By Products Of The Meat Packing Industry written by American Meat Institute. Committee on Textbooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1950 with Meat industry and trade categories.
Celebrity And Glamour In Contemporary Russia
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Author : Helena Goscilo
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2010-10-04
Celebrity And Glamour In Contemporary Russia written by Helena Goscilo and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This is the first book to explore the phenomenon of glamour and celebrity in contemporary Russian culture, ranging across media forms, disciplinary boundaries and modes of inquiry, with particular emphasis on the media personality. Considering both general tendencies and individual celebrities, it examines the internal dynamics of the institutions involved in the production, marketing and maintenance of celebrities, and the context and imperatives which drive Russian society’s fascination with glamour and celebrity.