Vladimir Sorokin (Владимир Сорокин, Vlagyimir Szorokin) was born in a small town outside of Moscow in 1955. He trained as an engineer at the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas, but turned to art and writing, becoming a major presence in the Moscow underground of the 1980s. His work was banned in the Soviet Union, and his first novel, The Queue, was published by the famed émigré dissident Andrei Sinyavsky in France in 1983. In 1992, Sorokin’s Collected Stories was nominated for the Russian Booker Prize; in 1999, the publication of the controversial novel Blue Lard, which included a sex scene between clones of Stalin and Khrushchev, led to public demonstrations against the book and to demands that Sorokin be prosecuted as a pornographer; in 2001, he received the Andrei Biely Award for outstanding contributions to Russian literature. Sorokin is also the author of the screenplays for the movies Moscow, The Kopeck, and 4, and of the libretto for Leonid Desyatnikov’s Rosenthal’s Children, the first new opera to be commissioned by the Bolshoi Theater since the 1970s. He has written numerous plays and short stories, and his work has been translated throughout the world. Among his most recent books are Sugar Kremlin and Day of the Oprichnik. He lives in Moscow.
Dacă ai o carte și o dai la 1000 de oameni s-o citească, o să auzi 1000 de păreri. Dacă faci același lucru cu această carte, părerile se vor înmulți și diviza în sute, sute de mii, care constant vor oscila între "wow" sau "yuch"! Pentru că acum poți avea o impresie, iar după câteva ore de reflecție apar altele. Cel mai important aspect este următorul, pe "Настя" nu o vei uita! Niciodată! Bag mâna în foc! Unele opere trec prin suflet, inimă, poate va trece prin ambele o dată, povestirea lui Sorokin va ajunge în stomac, și eu sper, sper din tot sufletul, să nu rămână acolo! Pentru cine scrie Sorokin: - pentru cei lipsiți de prejudecăți; - pentru cei cu gustul universal în toate; - pentru cei care nu se lasă impresionați ușor; - pentru cei care nu plâng când privesc filmul "Titanic" sau "A walk to remember"; - pentru cei care pot mânca fructe cu lapte; - pentru oamenii care iubesc filmul "Saw"; - pentru curajoșii care au un pic de psihopatie în caracteristica generală a personalității.
Cei care leșină la orice insultă sau au stomacul firav ca trestia în bătaia vântului, vă recomand să evitați orice carte scrisă de autor, nu doar aceasta. Nu povestesc nimic despre subiect, decât doar atât - o "simplă" aniversare de 16 ani care se transformă în coșmarul frumos al unei minți deosebite. Vă las pe voi să decideți spre care idee înclină cântarul imaginației dvs., însă afirm cu vehemență, trenul orizontului meu a deraiat de tot de pe șine, cu toate vagoanele sale în care se odihneau istoriile citite până acum.
Eu, cu admirație, nu am idee ce fel de admirație este, dar îi dau 5⭐. Cristina Platon, imaginația mea se îmbogățește datorită ție 🖤🖤🖤. #sorokin #настя #citimpentruschimbare #foxbooks
Ну вот и как оценивать такие книги? По качеству создаваемой атмосферы тут все 5 звезд. По тому ЧТО описано - даже 1 звучит как-то завышено. Это самый гадкий и страшный рассказ, который попадал мне в руки. Никакой Стивен Кинг, "Голый завтрак", "Цементный сад" или "История глаза" не вызывали такого отвращения - а это уже о чем-то говорит. Впервые в жизни захотелось спрятать книгу в морозилку, как это делал Джоуи в "Друзьях". Так бы и сделала, если бы читала не с телефона. Лютый пи*дец, а не рассказ. Заметка будущей себе: Сорокина больше не читать.
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You can consider me sick indeed, but I'll write it as it is. Put 3 stars for the overall content of the text. Scooped the other 2 for that:
1) Sadism for the sake of sadism. Even if it's fairly well-described, but he did not lead to anything. The process of rebirth within a single text ... and? Maybe there is a second / third / fifth part and I missed something? Or is this episode - is the whole story itself? 2) Filthy language in the text. Just personal, I do not really like that. In particular - "a piece * of the penis * and * vagina *" or whatever it was. 3) Unclear images and comparisons. Just no. 4) The shock, as for me, is below zero. To shock, there was a too short road to ensure that it had at least some effect of surprise. 5) Urinary juices, boiling and bubbling - this is just something xD. 6) The text itself is about nothing. He tells just a rather grim story, but which, again, does not lead anywhere. And it is unclear why it even exists. 7) Well, the technical design of the story telling as well. Scary.
Also bustings with praise Nietzsche (apparently, the author wanted to write something like that, but it turned out more from the Kafka category than Nietzsche). Descriptions cause disgust not by created images, namely the technical side. And so on.
About the wasted time - I can argue though. Three stars - not one, but "three times better" ;D. In short, screw it, together with the author, let him go reborn xD.
Думала, меня вырвет. Потом думала, что есть сегодня не смогу. Но обошлось и с первым, и со вторым. Это конечно жесть. Особенно, учитывая тот факт, что я Настя. Я, как обычно ни черта не поняла, но учуяла подтексты и аллегории. Поэтому сразу, как дочитала, полезла читать критиков. И тут-то я оценила рассказ по достоинству. Идея хорошая и вызывающе смелая, но местами до тошноты. Какой ограничительный порог у книги должен быть даже не смею предположить, но не раньше тридцадки можно такое читать. Или наоборот в 16 лет, если чадо подарку не радо, то и дать сей рассказик почитать. Но это уже отсылочка пошла 😉.
No stars solely because this was a reading I had to do for class and I avoid giving ratings for assigned readings. However, I still felt compelled to leave a review.
As others have mentioned, this is the only story that has ever made me physically ill. It’s not so much the body horror and torture, but the grotesque nature of the characters (which is very impressive). As a former 16 year old girl, I can definitely confirm that you do get roasted alive and eaten in your birthday. Jokes aside, this is a harrowing yet compelling story about the “consumption” of girls and women as well as how disgusting and harmful it is.
I loved this book. it had a really good description of an action. I have bought many metaphors that we can use in a world we live in right now. Author described the whole desire of people in the society, only eating, drinking, and having pleasure. Personally, I could also compare it to my own life, knowing that people talk about each other just like the whole family was eating the girl in the book. however it also presented to me the fact that Nastya was scared ro go into the "big world"(oven) knowing that people will be speaking about her (eating her). The book overall is great.
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I get the metaphor, thanks. However, I still think that this kind of literature is sick and can do only bad to your soul. Not the way to go, in my opinion.
So the book is like a very ill trolling about understanding Nietzsche literally and (I guess) the decaying Russia in the name of some vague ideas that look disgusting in real life.
The style is by the way absolutely beautiful. I loved the "Blizzard" by Sorokin and I recommend it to everyone. But this - no :).
Не люблю произведения, построенных на грязи и жести ради непонятного эпатажа. Сцена каннибализма неприятная даже для такого прожженого Палаником и Берроузом читателя. Есть конечно мысли и о метафоричности женской доли и самоидентичности через родительское признание, и о консервативном видении мира, когда старшее поколение пожирает молодое. Но не хочется быть вороной из финальной сцены и копаться во всем этом.
Перед прочтением данного произведения настоятельно рекомендую заготовить вкусности, ибо автор искусно воздействует на латеральный гипоталамус, способный вызвать пищевое вожделение :) Сенсорная детализация здесь столь реалистична, что временами кажется — рецепторы вкуса и обоняния встроены прямо в текст. Однако за этой гастрономической маскарадой скрыт метафизический пласт, делающий текст по-настоящему увлекательным творением
Впервые ставлю 5 книге, которую я не сумел дочитать до конца. Написано мастерски, но содержание... Если бы мне кто-то сказал, что беллетристика на взрослого меня подействует, как первый в жизни ужастик (Фредди Крюгер) посмотренный еще в юном возрасте... Мой совет- не читайте.
Цель оправдывает средства. Нет. Какие бы цели не ставились и не решались с помощью этого текста, они не оправданы этими метафорами из преисподней. Талантливо — и ещё более — гадко. Автор, зачем вы видите такие картинки? ))
Понравилось, как всегда по форме очень неприятно, местами мерзко, но меня наоборот как-то это привлекает, плюс стилизация под литературу 19 века понравилась. Классная книга
Прекрасный слог классической литературы 19 века, нетривиальный сюжет, занимательная сатира в стиле постмодернизма на брачные отношения и обычаи в воспитании детей социума того времени