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Lädt ... The New Sweet Stylevon Vasily Aksyonov
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. One would think that more attention would be paid to a writer with Vassily Aksyonov’s history. Author of an anthem for his generation (Ticket to the Stars), he rankled his government so much with his phantasmagoric subsequent works (The Burn, The Island of Crimea) that he was compelled to emigrate. On U.S. shores, he expanded his repertoire to include more straightforward fiction and created historical novels of the Stalinist era (Generations of Winter, The Winter’s Hero). In our post-Soviet age, however, the sex appeal of credentials like these has faded. Perhaps that was part of the inspiration for his latest novel, The New Sweet Style. In it, Alexander Korbach, a leading figure of the Moscow cultural scene who models himself after Dante Aligheri, finds himself forced out of his country and underwhelmed by America’s disinterested reception. While Korbach is occasionally bemused by his new surroundings, he’s almost always amused; Aksyonov is similarly open-armed. His prose delights in idioms and puns of the sort that madden translators, and the novel ranges from reportorial descriptions of parking lots in Venice, California, to lyrical speculations on cosmology, placing itself squarely in the class of loose, baggy monsters. Assisted by considerable authorial interruption, Korbach lurches from a seedy Inferno in 1980s California toward a unique Paradiso, a ridiculously sublime millennial reunion in Israel with the mummified remains of his earliest ancestor. It’s impossible to discredit the work for its lack of cohesiveness, though, given its good-natured refusal to meet that expectation: “We do take leaps, even into the past, within our chapters—modernism is a contagious disease, ladies and gentlemen!â€? One of these leaps finds Korbach returning to the USSR to lead a revolution. Aksyonov somehow manages to equate totalitarianism with traditional realism, so that when we root for the hero to face down a tank, we’re simultaneously rooting for the success of Aksyonov’s sweet, idiosyncratic style. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"The New Sweet Style, Alexander Korbach - a singer/composer/playwright adored by the counterculture in Moscow and reviled by the Communist powers-that-were - comes to the United States to start over and to search for new ways of pursuing his art." "No one is at the airport to meet him. Oh, well. Sasha soon discovers that he's a distant cousin of a rich American retailer with an elegant flagship store in New York. But before he can "capitalize" on this connection, Sasha has to work as a garage attendant in Santa Monica, deal with his Russian ex-wife, face down the KGB, get in bed with the KGB, and drink a goodly portion of vodka now and again (and again)."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)891.7344Literature Literature of other languages Literature of east Indo-European and Celtic languages Russian and East Slavic languages Russian fiction USSR 1917–1991 Late 20th century 1917–1991Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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