“Anti -Utopia” is a unique author’s anthology collected by Vladimir Makanin from his own texts created in different periods of creativity and a man united by the theme of the fate of a person in a totalitarian society hostile to him.
In the stories and stories of anthology, Makanin appears as a conditional realist – in the manner of Viktor Pelevin, looking beyond the edge of reality – as an ancient traveler beyond the edge of the map in search of new lands. Not fantastic, but not the truth of life. As if they opened the window on a dark night and the frightening cold of the otherworldly penetrated under the skin.
The names of Zamyatin and Platonov, Orwell, Huxley and Ballard appear in memory immediately when reading “anti -utopia”. And undoubtedly the names of Petrushevskaya, Tolstoy and Kabakov – when it comes to contemporaries of Makanin.
This unusual genre book – not characteristic of Makanin – opens a new line of talent of a famous writer.
Author
Makanin Vladimir Semenovich
Editor
Kachalkina Julia
Publisher
Eksmo, 2011
Series
Laureates of literary awards
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