[Otto]

I've still got the zip of Pelevin's "Omon Ra" e-text on my website:
www.ottosell.de/pelevin/omon.zip

2007/9/19, Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com>:
> Well, actually there isn't one Russian author who is totally Pynchonesque. I
> wouldn't be able to single out one particular writer who could be called,
> say, an epigone of Pynchon or, in brighter terms, a follower of Pynchon.
> Pynchon is not integrated into the poetics of Russian literature and it will
> take a brilliant translation of 'Gravity's Rainbow' for this to happen.
> Still I can suggest some authors who could be compared to him in terms of
> their narrative ambition or quirkiness.
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> The huge 'Hanbook of Drawing' (Uchebnik Risovaniya) by Maksim Kantor. This
> is a two-volume doorstop which is expressly anti-avantguarde and anti-pomo.
> But in its ambition to indict the 'charlatanism' of contemporary art, to
> dissect the way 'anti-art' has ousted 'art', as well as  by sheer wackiness
> of its plot twists (A performance artist rapes a polecat but then falls in
> love with HIM etc.) it can be said to contain a cerain degree of the
> Pynchonesque. (I judge by the reviews, I haven't read it).
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> Vassily Aksyonov's 'The Burn' (Ozhog). The similarities between this novel
> and Pynchon's V. have been pointed out by several reviewers.
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> Victor Pelevin's 'The Clay Machine Gun (Alternative title: Buddha's Little
> Finger) (Chapaev i Pustota). A hallucinatory pseudo-Buddhist tale about the
> Russian Civil War.
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> Vladimir Sorokin's 'Blue Fat' (Goluboye Salo). A futuristic phantasmagoria
> in which the mysterious substance 'blue fat' (made me think of Imipolex-G)
> is grown on the clones of Russian classical writers during the production of
> respective pastiches. With certain reservations I would say it is Pynchon
> meets Anthony Burgess meets Francois Rabelais meets the Marquis de Sade.
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> Hope this will help.
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> >I recall, a while back, that there was mention of a Russian novelist, whose
> >works are not yet available in the States, who is particularly Pynchonesque
> >- does anyone recall his name?
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> >I am going to Moscow soon and would like to pick up some books one cannot
> >get here.
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> >Thank you, all.
> >