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About the product The new book by Vladimir Sorokin is a collection of proverbs and sayings that were born in the depths of his artistic world and were widely disseminated among the inhabitants of Telluria. From this book you can learn that «maybe the horse will fit in one ear, it will crawl out of the other», that «the witch is friends with the goat, and the witcher is with the boar», that «holy water leads all the waters», that «they respected the fucking thing and for long-suffering.» that “you can’t please a podzhopnik with happiness” and a few hundred other proverbs and sayings that Vladimir Sorokin wrote down since the 1980s, collecting them not in cities and towns, but as if eavesdropping from the heroes of his own books. It is these «pearls of folk thought» that can be heard in the endless expanses of Telluria, as the Blue Ice collectors, the Blizzard travelers and the inhabitants of the Sugar Kremlin say. In addition to proverbs and sayings, both obscene and completely innocent, there are also riddles here. Some are simple, for example: «He led people on the water, and even led them to the truth» (Christ), some are impossible to guess: «Vanya went to woo on a pike» (Khrapulya-medogon). Perhaps, stupidity, vodka, fool, hedgehog, wife, ass, work, death, hiccups, pike, sneak … Dozens of words and concepts and hundreds of proverbs illustrating them. It was precisely such a collection that, perhaps, the artistic world of Sorokin lacked to become even more real, instantly recognizable and frighteningly believable. Abstract The bizarre, phantasmagoric, but at the same time painfully recognizable and frightening world of Vladimir Sorokin was lacking, perhaps, only one thing — his proverbs and sayings. And now — this gap has been filled. These pearls of folk thought were not collected in the regions of endless Russia during ethnographic expeditions, no — they belong to those who inhabit Telluria, those who wander in an endless blizzard or sit outside the walls of the Sugar Kremlin. The impeccable stylist Sorokin brings out the soul of his literary people, translates it into proverbs and sayings and, with the pedantry of a real researcher-philologist, brings it into the collection, dividing all the material according to the main words and concepts: stupidity, witch, vodka, rack, hedgehog, pike, sneak, hiccup … Hundreds of both completely innocent and very obscene proverbs and sayings illustrate Sorokin’s work better and more colorful than any literary work. …
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