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In the ruins of Moscow two centuries after the apocalypse, inhabitants dwell in primitive, frequently brutal conditions in which mice are a source of food, clothing, and commerce and books are banned by the ruling tyrant, although he plagiarizes the works of the old masters in order to make his own wise pronouncements.
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"a beautiful book ... intelligent and thought-provoking, and the kind of novel any bibliophile would relish reading."
(Starburst magazine)About the Author
Tatyana Tolstaya was born in Leningrad in 1951 to an aristocratic family that includes the writers Leo and Alexei Tolstoy. After completing a degree in classics at Leningrad State University, Tolstaya worked for several years at a Moscow publishing house. In the mid-1980s, she began publishing short stories in literary magazines and her first story collection established her as one of the foremost writers of the Gorbachev era. She spent much of the late Eighties and Nineties living in the United States and teaching at several universities. Known for her acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life, Tolstaya has also been the co-host of the Russian cultural interview television program School for Scandal. Both her novel, The Slynx and her collection of stories, White Walls, are published by NYRB Classics.
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The Slynx
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Boston. 2003. January 2003. Houghton Mifflin. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0618124977. Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell. 278 pages. hardcover. Cover: Luba Lukova. keywords: Europe Russia Literature Women Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - In what remains of Moscow some two hundred years after 'the Blast', a community persists in primitive, ridiculous, and often brutal circumstances. Mice are the current source of food, clothes, and commerce as well as humor. Owning books in this society is prohibited by the tyrant, who plagiarizes the old masters, becoming his people's sole writer. One of the tyrant's scribes, Benedikt, is the main narrator of THE SLYNX. He is in love with books as objects but is unable to derive any meaning or moral benefit from them. In the dystopian world of her satirical first novel, Tatyana Tolstaya addresses lust, cruelty, egotism, and ignorance through Benedikt's distorted eyes. Throughout the novel lurks the Slynx, the imagined catlike creature whose fearsome, shadowy presence threatens the mice and the humans alike. As Pearl K. Bell wrote of Tatyana Tolstaya on the cover of the New York Times Book Review, 'The blazing vitality of [her] imagination, the high-spirited playfulness. place her in that uniquely Russian line of satirists and surrealists.' David Remnick has called her 'the most promising of all the 'post-Soviet' writers. She sounds like no one else.' A great-grandniece of Leo Tolstoy, Tatyana Tolstaya was born in St. Petersburg. She is the author of two collections of stories and of PUSHKIN'S CHILDREN: WRITINGS ON RUSSIA AND RUSSIANS. She has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and, in 2001, two major Russian literary awards. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New Republic, and other publications. After teaching at Princeton University and for many years at Skidmore College, she now lives in Moscow. Jamey Gambrell has been translating Tatyana Tolstaya's fiction and non-fiction since 1990. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts translation fellowship. inventory #33158. Seller Inventory # z33158
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