Fiction. Eastern European Studies. Translated from the Ukrainian by
Vitaly Chernetsky. "The literary dormitory at Moscow University
becomes a kind of Russian Grand Hotel, serving the last supper of
empire to a host of writers gathered from every corner of the
continent, and beyond. Young poets from Vietnam, Mongolia, Yakutia,
Uzbekistan, Russia, and Ukraine assemble to study, drink, frolic,
and explore each other and the decaying city around them. When the
supper turns into a bacchanal, who's surprised? 'The empire
betrayed its drunks. And thus doomed itself to disintegration.'
Part howl, part literary slapstick, part joyful dirge, charged with
the brashness of youth, betraying the vision of the permanent
outsider, Andrukhovych's novel suggests that literature really is
news that stays news. Funny, buoyant, flamboyant, ground-breaking,
and as revelatory today as when it was first published in
Ukrainian, THE MOSCOVIAD remains a literary milestone. In spirit
and intellectual brio Andrukhovych, whose irreverence makes Borat
seem pious, is kin to the great Halldor Laxness and the venerable
David Foster Wallace"--Askold Melnyczuk.
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