Blue Lard av Vladimir Sorokin, Max Lawton

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<b>The Russian master''s most infamous novel, a dystopian fever dream about cloning, alternative histories, and world domination.</b><br><br>Vladimir Sorokin’s <i>Blue Lard</i> is the most iconic and iconoclastic Russian novel of the last forty years. Thanks in part to its depiction of Stalin and Khrushchev having sex, which inspired a Putinist youth group to throw shredded copies of the author’s books into an enormous toilet erected in front of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, <i>Blue Lard</i> is the novel that tore Sorokin out of the Moscow Conceptualist underground and into the headlines.<br><br>The book begins in a futuristic laboratory where genetic scientists speak in a Joycean dialect of Russian mixed with Chinese—peppered with ample neologisms—and work to clone famous Russian writers, who are then made to produce texts in the style of their forebears. The goal of this “script-process” is not the texts themselves, but the blue lard that collect