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"The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect" --… (más)
La ciudad se extiende en una franja limitada al este con un muro que cubre el horizonte y al oeste con un abismo insondable. Nadie sabe desde cuándo existe y sus habitantes, procedentes de distintas épocas y culturas, han resucitado en ella después de morir. Al sur se hallan los cultivos que la alimentan y al norte los yermos que, según cuentan, ocultan la anticiudad.
La ciudad se extiende en una franja limitada al este con un muro que cubre el horizonte y al oeste con un abismo insondable. Nadie sabe desde cuándo existe y sus habitantes, procedentes de distintas épocas y culturas, han resucitado en ella después de morir. Al sur se hallan los cultivos que la alimentan y al norte los yermos que, según cuentan, ocultan la anticiudad. ( )
The brothers immerse themselves in a Kafkaesque exploration here, composing a text that is both unequivocally satirical and seriously philosophical. (...) Russian-Jewish masterpiece, whose publication in English constitutes a long-awaited event.
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Hastily the vicious pike Called the small carp through his mike. “Little carplings, how’s your day?” “Thanks, we’re doing quite OK.”
—Valentin Kataev, Radiogiraffe
. . . I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars . . .
—The Revelation of Saint John the Divine (The Apocalypse)
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"The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is a die-hard believer in the Experiment, even though his first job in the city is as a garbage collector. And as increasingly nightmarish scenarios begin to affect the city, he rises through the political hierarchy, with devastating effect" --
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