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The Slynx

Tatyana Tolstaya

Paperback | Pages: 299 pages

Rating: 3.82 | 3589 Users | 268 Reviews

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Original Title:	Кысь
ISBN:	1590171969 (ISBN13: 9781590171967)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Benedikt
Literary Awards:	Премия «Триумф» (2001)

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Two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn't one to complain. He's got a job — transcribing old books and presenting them as the words of the great new leader, Fyodor Kuzmich, Glorybe — and though he doesn't enjoy the privileged status of a Murza, at least he's not a serf or a half-human four-legged Degenerator harnessed to a troika. He has a house, too, with enough mice to cook up a tasty meal, and he's happily free of mutations: no extra fingers, no gills, no cockscombs sprouting from his eyelids. And he's managed — at least so far — to steer clear of the ever-vigilant Saniturions, who track down anyone who manifests the slightest sign of Freethinking, and the legendary screeching Slynx that waits in the wilderness beyond.

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Title	:	The Slynx
Author	:	Tatyana Tolstaya
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	NYRB Classics
Pages	:	Pages: 299 pages
Published	:	April 17th 2007 by NYRB (first published 2000)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Russia. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Literature. Russian Literature

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Ratings: 3.82 From 3589 Users | 268 Reviews

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A bizarre, absurd, fascinating post-apocalyptic novel, with a pinch of dystopia, all of it covered with a thick layer of humour. A kind of novel where you laugh, then stop and think, 'wait, that's actually kind of depressing'. The plot here was INSANE, with Important Messages and allusions and satire hidden between the lines. #typicallyrussianDefinitely recommend if you're into post-apocalyptic or dystopian or any kind of Russian lit.(I updated my rating from 4 to 5 because the more time passes,

Besides the meaning of the word "horripilating" ("the erection of hairs on the skin due to cold, fear or excitement"), found on the chocolate-and-lime backmatter of this book's NYRB edition, reading Tolstoya's vision of civilization's hilarious, underwhelming ashes gave me a feeling of gratitude, and also anger that the ostensible genre of this book will allow people to compare it to mechanic nightmares like 1984 and Animal Farm, or even the killer, terrorizing Road. But Russians don't do genre

This is a hilarious book; a dystopia beautifully written and filled with endless imagination. I don't even know what to say about it... I'm still digesting it. The writing is as fantastic, inventive and clever as the world that Tatyana Tolstaya contructs. This dystopia happens after The Blast, which brought about a new Dark Age, filled with extreme ignorance, radiation poisoning that has mutated everything (poisonous black rabbits fly from tree to tree, kittens have trunks and fingers, and every

The Pace of Modern Life [xkcd] -- In 1871, someone expressed concern about how the art of letter-writing was fast dying out. In 1895, someone was worried about how the hurry and excitement of modern life was causing mental and nervous degeneration. In 1907, there was concern about every individual's head being buried in a magazine while they sat together as a family. Now a days, of course, we hear about the curse of the smartphones, 140 character limit on communication and dwindling

A feeling of desolation pervades the atmosphere of the post-apocalyptic world in which 'The Slynx' is set; a world of drudgery and paranoia, of bleakness beneath which lurks a violence and insurrection as what we would loosely describe as the protagonist-Benedikt develops a sense of self-awareness via the books he reads; snatches of Anna Karenina and her realisation of the shallow emptiness of society, of the subtle sadness and dimpled beauty of Chekhov, of the indescribable joy of holding a

I came into this book completely blind. Other than reading the description from GR and the fact that the author was a descendant from Tolstoy, I knew nothing else. However, this was a gamble I was willing to take since I really liked its post apocalyptic setting.The gamble paid off. Extraordinarily.I was expecting some high brow critique at communism and its totalitarian rule. Even if that is present throughout the book, there are many more things tightly packed in such a short novel. There is

I would give ten stars to this book, if I could. It is innovative, funny and frightening and I loved it.The title of the book, Slynx, is an invented word. There are many such words in this book set up in a post-apocalyptic Moscow, two hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast. People born after the Blast are deprived of any contemporary commodities and live in a wild land, most of them marked by mutations which they call Consequences. They live mostly on mice and use