Ebook {Epub PDF} The Slynx by Tatyana Tolstaya

"The Slynx", the debut novel by Tatyana Tolstaya, the granddaughter of the Russian writer Alexey Tolstoy, is worth reading. There are many reasons to recommend this book. The first and perhaps most important one is the language - funny, full of neologisms and contrasts, bursting with life; the novel is an excellent satire on the contemporary changes in the language, its simplifications and slang/5(5).  · The slynx is thus less mythic than symbolic: it's the beast in man. Tolstaya enriches this mordant farce with a wealth of weird supporting detail reminiscent of Anthony Burgess's futuristic classic A Clockwork Orange. An ending note informs us that The Slynx was written between and , and it's easy to see why. A densely woven,Brand: New York Review Books. Tatyana Tolstaya - The Slynx, Paperback - New in Paperback ``A postmodern literary masterpiece.`` -The Times Literary Supplement Two 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 th.

THE SLYNX. by Tatyana Tolstaya translated by Jamey Gambrell ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 15, A strikingly imagined first novel (after stories: On the Golden Porch, ; Sleepwalker in a Fog, ) skillfully creates a frightening and perversely funny postnuclear world. The setting is what once was Moscow, two hundred years after "the Blast. The Slynx (Hardcover) Published January 15th by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Tatyana Tolstaya, Jamey Gambrell (Translator) ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language. THE SLYNX. By Tatyana Tolstaya. Translated by Jamey Gambrell. Houghton Mifflin, $24;

Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya (Russian: Татьяна Никитична Толстая; born 3 May ) is a Russian writer, TV host, publicist, novelist, and essayist from the Tolstoy family, known for her fiction and "acerbic essays on contemporary Russian life". Tatyana Tolstaya - The Slynx, Paperback - New in Paperback ``A postmodern literary masterpiece.`` -The Times Literary Supplement Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. Tatyana Tolstaya's The Slynx is a jewel among the list of classics published by New York Review Books, a post-apocalyptic satire taking place two hundred years after “the Blast” in what was the city of Moscow. Human society has reverted to a state more primitive than a village in the darkest age of medieval, dark-age Europe.