Vladimir Sorokin

"Telluria is set in the future, when a devastating holy war between Europe and Islam has succeeded in returning the world to the torpor and disorganization of the Middle Ages. Europe, China, and Russia have all broken up. The people of the world now live in an array of little nations like puzzle pieces, each cultivating its own ideology or identity, a neo-feudal world of fads and feuds, in which no one power dominates. What does, however, travel everywhere...

"Pustit' krasnogo petukha i poimat' zolotuiu rybku - lish' malaia tolika togo, chto dolzhen sovershit' za den' oprichnik, nadezhda i opora gosudarstva Rossiiskogo. 'Slovo i Delo' - ego deviz, vernost' nachal'stvu - ego printsip, dvoemyslie - ego moral', nasilie - ego instrument. Oprichnik otlichno sebia chuvstvuet v Moskve nedalekogo budushchego - potomu chto on nezamenim. 'Den' oprichnika', vpervye izdannyi v 2006 godu, pereveden na dvadtsat' iazykov....

​Vladimir Sorokin is an author who blew up the Soviet literary tradition and built his own world on its ruins. SOROKIN TRIP is the first documentary about the most significant writer and dramatist in modern Russian literature. Sorokin for the first time talks about his own life with utmost frankness; his childhood in a worker's settlement near Moscow, his life in the workshops of underground artists, the persecution he suffered at the hands of the...

Imagines a New Russia of the near future that is ruled by a reconstituted nobility and which blends draconian codes with modern technology while locking down Western borders, a region in which a twenty-years-older Vladimir Putin has appropriated all freeenterprise.

"ABOUT BLUE LARD The Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination. Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Lard is the most iconic and iconoclastic Russian novel of the last forty years. Thanks in part to its depiction of Stalin and Khrushchev having sex, which inspired a Putinist youth group to throw shredded copies of the author's books into an enormous toilet erected in front of Moscow's...

"V sbornik 'Normalʹnai︠a︡ istorii︠a︡' voshli statʹi i ėsse Vladimira Sorokina, napisannye i vykhodivshie v 2010-e. V nekhudozhestvennoĭ proze avtor ne izmeni︠a︡et li︠u︡bimym temam: eda i pitʹe kak proi︠a︡vlenii︠a︡ nat︠s︡ionalʹnogo kharaktera, Moskva i Berlin, vzaimoproniknovenie zhizni i literatury. Iz nebolʹshikh zametok vyrisovyvaetsi︠a︡ sotkannyĭ iz detaleĭ stili︠a︡ i byta tochnyĭ portret dvukhtysi︠a︡chnykh,...