The Queue

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Author: Vladimir Sorokin

Pages: 198

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Publication Date: December 1,1988

Category: Literary



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Vladimir Sorokin’s initial published novel, The Queue , is a sly humor about the past due Soviet “years of stagnation. Sorokin’s tour de power of ventriloquism and formal daring tells the complete tale in snatches of unattributed dialogue, accumulated to nothing significantly less than the real tone of voice of the people, overheard on the road because they joke and curse, fall in and out of like, slurp down ice cream or vodka, complete crossword puzzles, even fall asleep and fall into line again each morning as the queue drags on… no one knows quite what, however the rumors are flying. Natural leather or suede? It doesn’t matter–if anything is certainly on sale, you better fall into line to get it. Turkish, Swedish, probably even American? Jackets, denims?” A large number of citizens are in collection for .


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