Infinite (not Jest but) Deadlock

[Jasper Fidget]

Did Dmitry Galkovsky write the book about the book about the book -- or
was it his dead daughter's ghost?

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 20:47 +0300, Ya Sam wrote:
> 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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