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Blue Lard ( Russian: Голубое сало, romanized : Goluboye salo) is a postmodern novel by Russian writer Vladimir Sorokin. It was first published in 1999 by Ad Marginem.
Feb 25, 2024 · Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Blue Lard” features a world largely bereft of love or moral concern, but it reminds us of our freedom.
- Dustin Illingworth
Blue Lard is what’s left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of Communism.
- Vladimir Sorokin
- Paperback
Jan 1, 1999 · “‘Blue Lard’ is an act of desecration. ‘Blue Lard’ is what’s left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of communism” – The New York Review of Books
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- Hardcover
- Vladimir Sorokin
Mar 15, 2024 · Vladimir Sorokin’s Blue Lard and Red Pyramid — surreal Russian satire that still shocks. Featuring cannibalism, Nazis and Soviet leaders having sex, this novel and short-story collection —...
- Courtney Weaver
The book became widely known for its graphic sexual scenes between clones of former Soviet leaders Nikita Khrushchev and Joseph Stalin (portrayed as homosexual lovers), which, though whimsical and absurd, resulted in Sorokin’s prosecution by the Russian government for the dissemination of pornography.…. Read More.
Feb 27, 2024 · Blue Lard is what's left after the towering masterpieces of Russian literature have been blown to smithereens, the most graphic, shocking, controversial, and celebrated book to be published in Russia since the end of Communism.
- Vladimir Sorokin
