LEADER 02561nam 22004573 450 001 9910149549403321 005 20230721043433.0 010 $a1-68137-173-1 035 $a(CKB)3710000000933875 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6057538 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6057538 035 $a(OCoLC)966037660 035 $a(BIP)013604204 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000933875 100 $a20210901d2007 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Slynx 210 1$aNew York :$cNew York Review Books,$d2007. 210 4$dİ2007. 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 225 1 $aNew York Review Books Classics 311 $a1-59017-196-9 330 8 $aNew in Paperback"A postmodern literary masterpiece." -The Times Literary SupplementTwo hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job-transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe-and though he doesn't enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he's not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he's happily free of mutations- no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he's managed-at least so far-to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond. Tatyana Tolstaya's The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov's Pale Fire and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art- an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia's past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now. 410 0$aNew York Review Books Classics 610 $aRussia (Federation) 610 $aFiction 676 $a891.73/44 676 $a891.7344 700 $aTolstaya$b Tatyana$01223930 701 $aGambrell$b Jamey$01057695 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910149549403321 996 $aThe Slynx$92876146 997 $aUNINA