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Gogol's Disco

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Availability:In StockContributor:Paavo Matsin, Adam Cullen (Translator)Series:Estonian LiteraturePublish date:2020-05-26Pages:180
Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781943150380ISBN-10:1943150389UPC:9781943150380Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Absurdist, Occult & SupernaturalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCYARTDFE6

In a parallel or future Estonia, whose language has been outlawed and its native population deported after the invasion by the Russian Tsardom, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is resurrected, Christ-like, bringing phantasmagoric mayhem to the sleepy town of Viljandi.

By the end of the story, four evangelists will have emerged from the novel's ragtag cast of Russian- speaking beatniks, bohemians, booksellers, blaggers, and Beatles- maniacs to write their subversive Gogol Gospels in the local insane asylum, despite efforts to thwart them on the part of the mysterious Murka, heroine of a criminal underworld ballad and agent of the Tsardom's secret police. By turns exuberant, grotesque, erudite, oneiric, hilarious, mystical, psychedelic, and dystopian, Gogol's Disco tells the parable of a small nation, whose gigantic neighbor quite literally consigns its literature to the latrine, only for it to rise from the dead in a literarily spectacular apocalypse in the best traditions of Bulgakov and magic realism.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Dalkey Archive PressISBN-13:9781943150380ISBN-10:1943150389UPC:9781943150380Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Absurdist, Occult & SupernaturalSize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SCYARTDFE6
Matsin, Paavo: - Paavo Matsin (b. 1970) began his literary career as a member of Estonia's 14NÜ experimental writing group. His novels include Doctor Schwartz: The Twelve Keys to Alchemy, and The Blue Guard. Gogol's Disco, a winner of the 2016 European Union Prize for Literature, is his third novel.Cullen, Adam: - Adam Cullen (b. 1986) is a translator of Estonian prose, poetry, and drama into English. His latest translations include Tõnu Õnnepalu's Exercises, Eno Raud's The Gothamites, and Kai Aareleid's Burning Cities (long-listed for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award). Originally from Minnesota, he has lived in Estonia for over a decade.
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press

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