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| genre = Novel, [[Postmodern fiction]], [[Dystopian fiction]] |
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| publisher = Ad Marginem (Russian), [[New York Review Books|NYRB]] (English) |
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'''''Blue Lard''''' ({{lang-ru|Голубое сало|Goluboe salo}}) is a [[postmodern]] novel by |
'''''Blue Lard''''' ({{lang-ru|Голубое сало|Goluboe salo}}) is a [[postmodern]] novel by Russian writer [[Vladimir Sorokin]]. It was first published in 1999 by Ad Marginem. |
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==Plot== |
==Plot== |
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The plot of the book revolves around a substance called "blue lard" that the clones of Russian writers produce when they write<ref name="NYT"> {{cite web |last=Illingworth |first=Dustin |date=25 February 2024 |title=This Book Is Baffling, Debauched and Perfectly Human |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/books/review/vladimir-sorokin-blue-lard.html |access-date=8 March 2024 |website=[[New York Times]] |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |quote=It begins in Russia, in 2068, when scientists have set about cloning the country’s great past writers in a clandestine Siberian lab. The novels, stories and poems these clones produce are of little importance; the scientists’ true quarry is the blue lard that forms on the clones’ bodies as they perform the “script process.”}}</ref> which is then used to power a hidden reactor on the moon.<ref name="PW">{{cite web |author= |date=12 December 2023 |title=Blue Lard |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781681378183 |access-date=8 March 2024 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |publisher= |quote=Their crazed output turns out to be a mere by-product of the scientists’ true purpose: to produce the “blue lard” used to power a hidden reactor on the moon.}}</ref> Some of the cloned Russian writers include [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]], [[Dostoyevsky]], [[Akhmatova]], [[Chekhov]] and [[Nabokov]].<ref name="PW" /> The novel takes place in two timelines: the second half of the |
The plot of the book revolves around a substance called "blue lard" that the clones of Russian writers produce when they write<ref name="NYT"> {{cite web |last=Illingworth |first=Dustin |date=25 February 2024 |title=This Book Is Baffling, Debauched and Perfectly Human |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/25/books/review/vladimir-sorokin-blue-lard.html |access-date=8 March 2024 |website=[[New York Times]] |publisher=[[The New York Times]] |quote=It begins in Russia, in 2068, when scientists have set about cloning the country’s great past writers in a clandestine Siberian lab. The novels, stories and poems these clones produce are of little importance; the scientists’ true quarry is the blue lard that forms on the clones’ bodies as they perform the “script process.”}}</ref> which is then used to power a hidden reactor on the moon.<ref name="PW">{{cite web |author= |date=12 December 2023 |title=Blue Lard |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781681378183 |access-date=8 March 2024 |website=[[Publishers Weekly]] |publisher= |quote=Their crazed output turns out to be a mere by-product of the scientists’ true purpose: to produce the “blue lard” used to power a hidden reactor on the moon.}}</ref> Some of the cloned Russian writers include [[Leo Tolstoy|Tolstoy]], [[Dostoyevsky]], [[Akhmatova]], [[Chekhov]] and [[Nabokov]].<ref name="PW" /> The novel takes place in two timelines: the second half of the 21st century (set in [[Siberia]] and Moscow in the future) and an alternative timeline of 1954 (in [[Joseph Stalin]]'s Moscow and [[Adolf Hitler]]'s [[Third Reich]]). |
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==References== |
==References== |
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Revision as of 00:41, 18 April 2024
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| Author | Vladimir Sorokin |
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| Original title | Голубое сало |
| Translator | Max Lawton |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Novel, Postmodern fiction, Dystopian fiction |
| Publisher | Ad Marginem (Russian), NYRB (English) |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Publication place | Russia |
Published in English | 2024 |
Blue Lard (Template:Lang-ru) is a postmodern novel by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. It was first published in 1999 by Ad Marginem.
Plot
The plot of the book revolves around a substance called "blue lard" that the clones of Russian writers produce when they write[1] which is then used to power a hidden reactor on the moon.[2] Some of the cloned Russian writers include Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Akhmatova, Chekhov and Nabokov.[2] The novel takes place in two timelines: the second half of the 21st century (set in Siberia and Moscow in the future) and an alternative timeline of 1954 (in Joseph Stalin's Moscow and Adolf Hitler's Third Reich).
References
- ^ Illingworth, Dustin (25 February 2024). "This Book Is Baffling, Debauched and Perfectly Human". New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
It begins in Russia, in 2068, when scientists have set about cloning the country's great past writers in a clandestine Siberian lab. The novels, stories and poems these clones produce are of little importance; the scientists' true quarry is the blue lard that forms on the clones' bodies as they perform the "script process."
- ^ a b "Blue Lard". Publishers Weekly. 12 December 2023. Retrieved 8 March 2024.
Their crazed output turns out to be a mere by-product of the scientists' true purpose: to produce the "blue lard" used to power a hidden reactor on the moon.
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