Gen P is not that great of a production, but because of Pelevin's story, it still manages to deliver a punch.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Will read it then, haha. Bernal-wise, there's a great revenge flick called The King with him in it (scripted by Milo Addica that wrote Birth etc.).
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Replying to @ekscest
You will like Pelevin novels, this one is not even his best. Russian cyber-age madness with a great deal of humor.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Hey, I tried Chapayev and Void, couldn't finish it.
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Replying to @ekscest @NegarestaniReza
But, yeah, Russians are amazing. They even produce academic cyberpunk. Alexey German Jr.'s Under Electric Clouds, forexample
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Replying to @ekscest
They're great but generally hard to follow with many characters and sub-plots which are just there doing nothing. Pelevin is good even though sometimes he comes off as the David Foster Wallace of Russia which is cringe-worthy. Read his Macedonian Criticism of French Thought.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza
Yeah, the new sincerity sthtick. Chapayev felt like a really shoddy example of po-mo. And I'm very much pro po-mo (what would one do without Borges or Cyclonopedia, lol).
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Replying to @ekscest @NegarestaniReza
Pelevin has earned his fame, but you really must read Vladimir Sorokin if you have not already.
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Replying to @obluplenie @ekscest
I know Sorokin's work, great one. My first choice however goes for Sharov who sadly passed away recently.
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Replying to @NegarestaniReza @ekscest
Sharov seems great. I haven't read him but will do so now. From what I've just read about him, though, I think you would really love Mamleev. He's one of the shestidesiatniki and concerns himself with underground religiosity and the metaphysics of death.
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I will def. look for Mamleev's work. Sharov is very much in the spirit of the early Russian Shakespearean drama school but upgraded with various heterogeneous modern elements.
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