Infinite (not Jest but) Deadlock

[Ya Sam]

Not sure if this was mentioned before, but there is another doorstop of 
Russian literature that might be intersting to Pynchon readers, although, 
unfortunately it's unlikely that it will ever get translated. It's out of 
print anyway. It was written in the end of the 1980s and was published in 
the 1990s, the influence is not of IJ of course, but that of Nabokov's 'Pale 
Fire'. A big book of notes to the text we never get to read. Here is some 
info available in English:

"The Antibooker prize was won by Dmitry Galkovsky for his philosophical work 
"The Infinite Deadlock". The book comprises 1500 pages. To describe its plot 
is impossible.
A member of the Antibooker panel of judges, Andrey Vasilevsky, says: "This 
is a book of extremely complicated structure, a book of annotations to a 
text that does not exist. Fresh annotations are made to these annotations, 
which forms an endless chain. Finally all gets so complicated, that the 
author supplements the book with a special index as to how to use it. 
However very few people can understand how to use that index."
Dmitry Galkovsky's book is a shocking composition, provocative in terms of 
the ordinary people's perception of everyday life, politics and religion. 
It's a scandalous book, and the panel of judges admits this.
Here's what another member of the panel of judges, Sergey Yesin, has to say: 
"This is an amazingly interesting reading for interesting persons, a 
breathtaking lacelike reading".

http://www.vor.ru/culture/cultarch3_eng.html

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