Day of the Oprichnik
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Haunting, terrifying and hilarious, The Day of the Oprichnik is a dazzling novel and a fierce critique of life in the New Russia Moscow 2028: Andrei Danilovich Komiaga, oprichnik, member of the czar's inner circle of trusted courtiers, rouses himself from a drunken stupor and prepares for another day of debauchery, violence, terror and beauty. In this New Russia, futuristic technology combine with the draconian world of Ivan the Terrible to create a dystopia chillingly akin to reality. Over the twenty-four-hour span of the novel, Komiaga will rape, pillage and torture, in the name of the czar he fears and adores. Shimmering with invention, fierce social commentary and razor-sharp wit, Day of the Oprichnik imagines a near future too disturbing to contemplate and too close to reality to ignore.
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2 primary books#1 in Oprichnik's Russia
Oprichnik's Russia is a 2-book series with 2 released primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Vladimir Sorokin and Владимир Сорокин.
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Славно стелит рифмоплет. За два дня проглотил аки змий о семи головах. Знатно отрыгнул. Добро. И на том стоим.
‘'You don't join the oprichnina. You don't choose it. It chooses you. Or, more precisely, the oprichnina pulls you in like a wave. Oh, how it pulls you in! It pulls you in so fast that your head spins, the blood in your veins boils, you see red stars. But that wave that can carry you out as well. It can carry you out in a minute, irrevocably. This is worse than death. Falling out of the oprichnina is like losing both your legs. For the rest of your life you won't be able to walk, only to crawl...''
‘'That's what it is...Russia. Since it's Russia. I lower my eyes to the floor at once. I look at the fire. And see The Idiot and Anna Karenina in flames. I have to say - they burn well. In general, books burn well. Manuscripts go like gunpowder. ‘'
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