Gogol's Disco (eBook)

Paavo Matsin (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
176 Seiten
Dalkey Archive Press (Verlag)
978-1-943150-84-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In a parallel or future Estonia, whose language has been outlawed and its native population deported after the invasion by the Russian Tsardom, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is resurrected, Christ-like, bringing phantasmagoric mayhem to the sleepy town of Viljandi.By the end of the story, four evangelists will have emerged from the novel's ragtag cast of Russian- speaking beatniks, bohemians, booksellers, blaggers, and Beatles- maniacs to write their subversive Gogol Gospels in the local insane asylum, despite efforts to thwart them on the part of the mysterious Murka, heroine of a criminal underworld ballad and agent of the Tsardom's secret police. By turns exuberant, grotesque, erudite, oneiric, hilarious, mystical, psychedelic, and dystopian, Gogol's Disco tells the parable of a small nation, whose gigantic neighbor quite literally consigns its literature to the latrine, only for it to rise from the dead in a literarily spectacular apocalypse in the best traditions of Bulgakov and magic realism.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.5.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Estonian Literature
• Reihe/Serie: Estonian Literature
• Übersetzer: Adam Cullen
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 140 x 140 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Absurdist Humor • alternate future • blaggers • bohemians • Booksellers • christ-like • Cult • Dystopia • dystopian • Estonia • Future • Nikolai Gogol • Resurrection • Russia • Satire • Subversive
• ISBN-10: 1-943150-84-2 / 1943150842
• ISBN-13: 978-1-943150-84-7 / 9781943150847