Thanks to Sonthaya Subyen who told me about this book.
This is an excerpt from the review of this book by Robert Buckeye:
http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=StasiukNineReview
“It is the blasted landscape the films of Bela Tarr, Fred Kelemen and Ilya Khrzhanovsky conditioned us to see. A vista the surrealist landscapes of Jan Saudek opened up. The grim, abandoned backwater of an Eastern Europe writhing under runaway capitalism. We have entered Tarkovsky’s Zone. Raskolnikov stalks the streets of St. Petersburg. The bicycle chain swings in the street. An eye is gouged out”
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My book wish list is THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA. It is an unfinished novel by Vlamidier Nabokof that will sell around mid year. I know this from Faylicity's writing in Sarakadee magazine.
She wrote that this novel will be a hit because it contains lots of explicit graphic sex scene which Nabokof didnt have a chance to write in Lolita).
THE ORIGINAL OF LAURA sounds interesting, Vespertine.
Talking about scandalous books, it reminds me of UN ROMAN SENTIMENTALE, the last novel written by Alain Robbe-Grillet before he died. Judging from what I heard about this underage sadomasochistic novel, I don't want to read it.
You can read about this novel in
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2007/dec/18/pornographyashighart
The novel "9" (Andrzej Stasiuk) is available at Kinokuniya, Emporium, for 495 baht. :-)
I enjoyed your post.
St. Petersburg was where the heart of the Russian Revolution of 1917, was located. That puts the Wild West feeling of Eastern Europe into perspective.
Talking about the Russian revolution, I just saw THE FLIGHT (1970, Aleksandr Alov + Vladimir Naumov, A++++++++++), which is adapted from the books of Mikhail A. Bulgakov. It deals with the period of Russian revolution in which many elites tried to flee from the country. The first half of the film is delightfully chaotic. It reminds me of the chaos I found in some films by Emir Kusturica.
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