Paavo Matsin

Gogol's Disco (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Cullen, Adam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Deep Vellum Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781943150847
• Artikelnr.: 59409546

Autorenporträt

Paavo Matsin (b. 1970) began his literary career as a member of Estonia's 14NÜ experimental writing group. His novels include Doctor Schwartz. The Twelve Keys to Alchemy (2011) and The Blue Guard (2013). Gogol's Disco (2015), a winner of the 2016 European Union Prize for Literature, is his third novel.