The Writer of the Russian Snake. On the Seventieth Anniversary of Vladimir Sorokin
We have long been inside his endless Telluria, living within his self-fulfilling prophecy, tumbling inside the Machine of Violence he described. And it cannot be said that we were not warned; Russian literature has never before had such a clear prediction over the past decades leading up to the catastrophe.
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