Vladimir Sorokin's Discourses: A Companion Guy Thomas Buswell or because it provides comfort

or because it provides comfort

He gave orders to capture Gozo

ISBN13: 9780061670145

ISBN13: 9781721815890

Vladimir Sorokin's Discourses: A Companion Guy Thomas Buswell or because it provides comfortVladimir Sorokin is the most prominent and the most controversial contemporary Russian writer. Having emerged as a prose writer in Moscow's artistic underground in the late 1970s and early 80s, he became visible to a broader Russian audience only in the mid 1990s, with texts shocking the moralistic expectations of traditionally minded readers by violating not only Soviet ideological taboos, but also injecting vulgar language, sex, and violence into