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Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores--really, colonizes--the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.… (meer)
DLSmithies: Just because I found myself reminded, as Sukhanov's past envelops him, of that amazing moment in Proust when he trips over the paving slab and right there, standing outside the party, has his epiphany about time.
Na een aanvankelijk moeizaam begin begon het verhaal me toch te boeien. De overgangen van werkelijkheid naar droom (ijlen, hallucineren, sterven?) waren heel goed en subtiel gedaan. Soms merkte je niet direct dat er weer een overgang was geweest. Na een tijdje ontdekte ik dat de schrijfster de 'ik-vorm' gebruikte als de hoofdpersoon in de droomfase was. Goed geschreven, boeiend. ( )
I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing; not knowing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind and naked.
REVELATION 3:15-17
Opdracht
To my parents
Eerste woorden
'Stop here,' said Anatoly Pavlovich Sukhanov from the back-seat, addressing the pair of suede gloves on the steering wheel.
Citaten
Laatste woorden
Then, once the echo of his laughter had faded, he began to mix the glorious rainbow of his new palette.
Olga Grushin's astonishing literary debut has won her comparisons with everyone from Gogol to Nabokov. A virtuoso study in betrayal and its consequences, it explores--really, colonizes--the consciousness of Anatoly Sukhanov, who many years before abandoned the precarious existence of an underground artist for the perks of a Soviet apparatchik. But, at the age of 56, his perfect life is suddenly disintegrating. Buried dreams return to haunt him. New political alignments threaten to undo him. Vaulting effortlessly from the real to the surreal and from privilege to paranoia, The Dream Life of Sukhanov is a darkly funny, demonically entertaining novel.
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