Living Souls by Dmitry Bykov
A wide-ranging work dealing with the ideas of language, power and national identity, Living Souls is a comic and thought-provoking novel with tremendous relevance to the present day.
A most remarkable ideological thriller* Kommersant *
This is, without a doubt, a very important book, the best Bykov has written so far. * Gazeta *
A Catch-22 for modern Russia. -- Elaine Feinstein
Often funny, occasionally moving and possibly dangerous. * The Times *
Blending a novel of ideas with a fairy-tale and satire with lyricism, Bykov in Living Souls gives a picture of Russia in the near future and - as so many others before him - tries to understand the eternal contradictions of his country. * The Independent *
The novel Living Souls is at once a futuristic geopolitical fantasy and a panoramic satire of post-Soviet life… His heroes and heroines agonize over questions of Russia's destiny and their own, as the plot spins off across the map on fast-turning wheels of transgressive eros and fairy-tale magic. * The New York Review of Books *
A dreamscape, a panoramic survey of the obsessions and illusions that protect Russian society’s sleep. * TLS *
This is, without a doubt, a very important book, the best Bykov has written so far. * Gazeta *
A Catch-22 for modern Russia. -- Elaine Feinstein
Often funny, occasionally moving and possibly dangerous. * The Times *
Blending a novel of ideas with a fairy-tale and satire with lyricism, Bykov in Living Souls gives a picture of Russia in the near future and - as so many others before him - tries to understand the eternal contradictions of his country. * The Independent *
The novel Living Souls is at once a futuristic geopolitical fantasy and a panoramic satire of post-Soviet life… His heroes and heroines agonize over questions of Russia's destiny and their own, as the plot spins off across the map on fast-turning wheels of transgressive eros and fairy-tale magic. * The New York Review of Books *
A dreamscape, a panoramic survey of the obsessions and illusions that protect Russian society’s sleep. * TLS *
Dmitry Bykov is the author of five novels, a biography of Pasternak, winner of the 2007 Big BookA" Prize and the National Bestseller Prize, two collections of short stories, two volumes of essays and eight collections of poetry. He writes for various literary publications, hosts a weekly radio show and appears regularly on Russian television.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846881268 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846881269 |
| Title | Living Souls |
| Author | Dmitry Bykov |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2011-02-21 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
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