Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin non-fiction Focusing on six unbuilt architectural

Focusing on six unbuilt architectural landmarks

There are stories of émigré society

and eventual stagnation within the tradition of Russian nationalist music

seek to "revive" their own alternative social groupings that span the border

Blue Lard by Vladimir Sorokin non-fiction Focusing on six unbuilt architecturalThe Russian master's most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination. Vladimir Sorokin's Blue Lard is the most iconic and iconoclastic Russian novel of the last forty years. Thanks in part to its depiction of Stalin and Khrushchev having sex, which inspired a Putinist youth group to throw shredded copies of the author's books into an enormous toilet erected in front of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater,