{"product_id":"red-pyramid-selected-stories","title":"Red Pyramid : Selected Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExtended comic turns like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Queue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e and relentless, mind-bending, genre-shredding extravaganzas like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIce Trilogy \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ehave established Vladimir Sorokin as a master of the contemporary novel. It is to Sorokin’s short fiction, however, that readers must turn to encounter the wildest and most unsettling of his inventions and provocations. Sorokin is a virtuoso of parody and pastiche, as well as  a poet of the black sites where the human soul stands exposed to its own incontinent desires, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Pyramid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e spans the whole of his career, from his emergence in  the Soviet Union as a member of Moscow’s artistic underground to his late preeminence as an observer and interpreter of the Putin era, with its squalid parade of gruesome folly and unhinged violence. Included here  are queasy tour-de-forces, like the early “Obelisk,” a story as scatological as it is conceptual; the notorious “A Month in Dachau,” which earned Sorokin his sobriquet as the Russian Sade; and profoundly unsettling texts like “Tiny Tim,” where tenderness is inseparable from horror. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003cbr\u003ePublished: USA, 2024\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: NYRB\u003cbr\u003ePages: 298\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eISBN 13: 9781681378206\u003cbr\u003eISBN 10: 1681378206\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vladimir Sorokin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45513098166538,"sku":"","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0282\/6066\/3399\/files\/9781681378206.jpg?v=1713976446","url":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareandsons.com\/products\/red-pyramid-selected-stories","provider":"Shakespeare \u0026 Sons Buchhandel GmbH","version":"1.0","type":"link"}