Sergey Dyachenko (1945–2022)
Autor de Vita Nostra
Sobre El Autor
Créditos de la imagen: Marina and Sergey Dyachenko by БережнойСергей
Series
Obras de Sergey Dyachenko
The Scar 2 copias
Ziemia Vesnarów 2 copias
Стократ 1 copia
Хозяин колодцев 1 copia
Одержимая 1 copia
Мир наизнанку 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Dyachenko, Serhiy Serhiyovych
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1945
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 2022-03-05
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Ukraine
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Kyiv, Ukraine SSR
- Lugares de residencia
- Moscow, Russia
Marina del Rey, California, USA - Ocupaciones
- novelist
screenwriter - Relaciones
- Dyachenko, Marina (spouse)
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Magic schools (1)
Same Title (1)
Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 34
- Miembros
- 1,219
- Popularidad
- #21,068
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 46
- ISBNs
- 72
- Idiomas
- 6
Connections with HP are ready to hand. There is a girl, Sasha, who is repeatedly told she is special. And there is a magic school with teen romance. Students there learn a brand of magic, are transformed, grow wings, and learn to fly, but such connections mislead.
The Institute for Special Technologies in the village of Torpa is no Hogwarts. Its tawdry campus is symbolically located on a street named for Sacco and Vanzetti, the anarchist Italian immigrants who were executed for murder in America after a trial that was a travesty of justice.
None of the Institute students are there by choice. They seem abused, downtrodden, and desperate. The professors routinely use threats and intimidation to achieve their educational ends, which are concealed from the students until the final high-stakes matriculating exam.
The creepiness starts right away. Sasha is recruited by a Svengali who tells her she must swim naked to a buoy each morning before dawn. When she gets home, she vomits gold coins containing the Institute’s logo. Failure might endanger her or her family.
What it has to say about adolescence is darkly Jungian. As a critique of education, it suggests quite literally that it turns students into abstractions that rob them of their humanity. I am too uninformed to say what it says about Russian-Ukrainian politics.… (más)