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Автор: Todorov Vladislav
Название: Zift: Socialist Noir
ISBN: 9781589880597
Издательство: Paul Dry Books
Классификация:

Остросюжетная художественная литература / произведения с напряжённой интригой

ISBN-10: 1589880595
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 183
Вес: 0.18 кг.
Дата издания: 17.08.2010
Язык: English
Размер: 18.03 x 11.94 x 1.52 cm
Читательская аудитория: General (us: trade)
Подзаголовок: Socialist noir
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Поставляется из: США
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A compelling thriller.--Los Angeles Times

Zift is like a flaming shot of rotgut smuggled in from the old country...Vladislav Todorov adroitly uses the American genre of noir to excoriate the political villains of his homelands past...Zift is gritty and brisk.--Matt Jakubowski, City Paper

Todorovs raw, hard-boiled parody takes dead aim at noir and leaves it gasping for breath.--Michael Pinker, Review of Contemporary Fiction

December 21, 1963: Having served 20 years for a murder he didnt commit, Moth exits Central Sofia Prison anticipating his first night of freedom. Instead he steps into a new and alien world--the nightmarish totalitarianism of Communist Bulgaria. In his first hours of freedom he traverses the map of a diabolical city, full of decaying neighborhoods, gloomy streets, and a bizarre parade of characters.

A novel of grave wit, Zift unfolds in the course of a single, frenetic night, offering a fast-paced, ghoulish, even grotesque--but also enchanting--tour of shadowy, socialist Sofia. To achieve his depiction of totalitarian absurdity, Vladislav Todorov combines the methods of hardboiled American crime fiction and film noir with socialist symbols and communist ideological clich s.

Todorov was obviously raised on a steady diet of American noir, and it shows in the pacing, the language, and the shadowy depths of every alleyway, every street corner.--Jessa Crispin

...stalking its genre with the meticulousness of an assassin, while simultaneously parodying it. A novel that unfolds over a single night, in a single breath--and also reads that way...a black-and-white cinematographic vision of early-1960s Sofia by Night.--Georgi Gospodinov, author of Natural Novel

The novel interweaves the key tropes of Soviet socialist realism and American hard-boiled detective fiction to produce a richly intertextual portrayal of a nightmarish--yet comical--Bulgarian communist society in late 1963.--Three Percent

Pulp fiction by a historian of ideas.--Literary Weekly

Tongue flamb .--Kultura

Zift is a play on the pulp noir genre, in book and film, and Todorov has fun playing it to the hilt.--The Complete Review

Zift is part noir, part crime story, part social satire, part black comedy (extremely black), part absurdist fairy tale.--BiblioBuffet

Zift, Vladislav Todorovs debut novel, was a finalist for the 2007 Vick Prize as Bulgarian Novel of the Year and a nominee for the Elias Canetti National Literary Prize. Todorov also wrote the screenplay for the 2008 film version of Zift. Variety hailed the movie as an instant midnight fest fave. Todorov teaches film and literature at the University of Pennsylvania.

Joseph Benatov holds a BA and an MA from Sofia University and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Pennsylvania, where he currently teaches.

Zift: Socialist Noir, Todorov Vladislav