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Cargando... Absurdistan: A Novel (edición 2007)por Gary Shteyngart
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. One of the best, not to mention funniest movies of last year was Borat. It was an hilarious satire of Christians, Moslems and Jews told from the point of view of a bizarre but lovable Muslim, from the imaginary village of Kuzcek in Kazakhstan( a real former Soviet republic bordering on the Caspian Sea). Well Absurdistan is an hilarious satire of Christians, Moslems and Jews told from the point of view of a bizarre but lovable, U. S. educated, Russian born Jew, stuck in Absurdistan. An imaginary former Soviet republic bordering on the Caspian Sea. Half way through this novel I couldn't help but wonder how cool it would be if Sacha Cohen and Gary Shteyngart got together and made a sequel to Borat in which these two fascinating characters went head to head, and created the kind of havoc only they can. The runner-up of the 2007 Morning News Tournament of Books (https://themorningnews.org/tob/2007/) In my opinion, 'Absurdistan' was ROBBED from winning against the drab McCarthy confusion that is 'The Road'. I would have chosen Absurdistan! Could this match-up have been any different? I'm finding I like books about unlikable underdogs more than other readers seem to. Others just can't hang with Zebra from 'Call Me Zebra'. Misha here isn't quite unlikable but he would sometimes be a bit MUCH for others. Always talking about his squishy hands. Sometimes plotless, but I love a writer who is in love with words this much and will forgive such a plot, but I guess that is the norm for absurdist fiction. The "pizza resistance" mention was the pizza resistance of this entire book!!! I won't say more, as you'll either love this book or you won't. This reminds me of so many, though none can have that Shteyngart sparkle: Call Me Zebra - Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole Home Land - Sam Lipsyte The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao - Junot Diaz Wise Blood - Flannery O'Connor
Like a victorious wrestler, this novel is so immodestly vigorous, so burstingly sure of its barbaric excellence, that simply by breathing, sweating and standing upright it exalts itself. In the end Misha gives new meaning to that archetype of Russian literature — the "superfluous man" — while Mr. Shteyngart's novel manages to seem equally beside the point. PremiosDistincionesListas Notables
Bienvenido a Absurdistán, reino del petróleo y la ambición desmedida. A Misha Vainberg le cierran las puertas de Estados Unidos cuando su padre -un influyente mafioso ruso- mata a un hombre de negocios de Oklahoma. Sin visado y sin esperanzas, ha de tomar un camino alternativo para volver junto a su chica del Bronx: viaja a la corrupta República Absurdsvanï para conseguir un pasaporte belga. Parece un plan sencillo, pero pronto todo se complica. En Absurdistán, Misha se ve envuelto en un surrealista conflicto bañado en sangre, petróleo y oscuras intrigas. ¿Podrá salir de aquella pesadilla y volver a su sueño americano? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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It's broad farce brimming with intelligence.
Now I am going to have to read all the other Shteyngart books.
(I could have a worse burden, trust me.) ( )