Telluria

Telluria
Vladimir Sorokin, Max Lawton
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Paperback
h203 x 127mm - 336pg
2 Aug 2022 US
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9781681376332
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In the warring, neo-feudal society of this cross-genre novel for fans of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson, the greatest treasure is a dose of tellurium-a magical drug administered by a spike through the brain. 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 that are 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 is the appetite for the special substance tellurium. A spike of tellurium, driven into the brain by an expert hand, offers a transforming experience of bliss; incorrectly administered, it means death. The fifty chapters of Telluria map out this brave new world from fifty different angles, as Vladimir Sorokin, always a virtuoso of the word, introduces us to, among many other figures, partisans and princes, peasants and party leaders, a new Knights Templar, a harem of phalluses, and a dog-headed poet and philosopher who feasts on carrion from the battlefield. The book is an immense and sumptuous tapestry of the word, carnivalesque and cruel, and Max Lawton, Sorokin' s gifted translator, has captured it in an English that carries the charge of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson.
"In Sorokin, Russia found its Pynchon. " -Vladislav Davidzon, Bookforum "Telluria describes a time when comprehensive visions have failed. Heterogeneous societies have crumbled. The world no longer tolerates diversity. The very idea of grand unifying politics, an ' end of history,' seems ridiculous. Pluralism, as an ideal, or even as a concept, has disappeared. Members of one society, social class, or economic stratum have little incentive or opportunity to interact with others. " -Bradley Gorski, Public Books "Searing, effervescent prose . . . Sorokin builds paranormal worlds in which, disquietingly, we find illuminating rhymes with our own. " -Matt Janney, Calvert Journal
Vladimir Sorokin is the author of numerous novels, plays, short stories, and film scripts. His work has been translated throughout the world. NYRB Classics published a translation of his first novel, The Queue, in 2008, and a translation of a trio of his novels, The Ice Trilogy, in 2011. In future seasons, NYRB Classics will publish his novelsBlue Lard and The Norm, as well as a collection of stories, Red Pyramid. In 2001, he received the Andrei Biely Award for outstanding contributions to Russian literature. His most recent book published in English is The Blizzard. He lives in Moscow. Max Lawton is a novelist, musician, and translator. He has translated several works by Vladimir Sorokin, including the short story "White Square," which was published in the winter 2020 issue of n+1. He lives in New York City.
Status: Active
ISBN-13: 9781681376332
Published: 2 Aug 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: NYRB Classics
Publisher: The New York Review of Books Inc
Format: Paperback
Height: 203mm
Width: 127mm
Pages: 336

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