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. Absolutely all that people had built and created has been destroyed, including their. 2007 by Tatyana Tolstaya (Author), Jamey Gambrell (Translator) 105 ratings Kindle Edition 4.74 Read with Our Free App Hardcover from 35.78 4 Used from 35.78 Paperback 8.09 3 Used from 8.16 12 New from 7. Tatyana Tolstaya’s The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. The Slynx book cover Random House, 2007 In a post-apocalyptic world everything has changed dramatically. The Slynx (New York Review Books Classics) Paperback 29 Jun. 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. 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. 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. Sell, buy or rent The Slynx (New York Review Books Classics) 9781590171967 1590171969, we buy used or new for best buyback price with FREE shipping and. Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya: 9781590171967 : Books New in Paperback A postmodern literary masterpiece.

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