A Normal Story
4 hrs. 33 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Vladimir Sorokin
Author
Vladimir Sorokin
Narrator
Ivan Litvinov
Narrator
Ivan Litvinov
Description
A vivid, original, unexpected, precise, and subtle slice not only of the first decade of the new century, but of the entire Soviet and post-Soviet period that preceded it.
“Normal History” is a collection of articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin written in the 2010s. On the one hand—an яркий and accurate slice of the era; on the other—original and vivid reflections on the world around us. Travel essays and sociological observations, personal memories and notes on literary studies, gastronomic details and architectural nuances—Sorokin skillfully blends journalism with fiction and offers completely unexpected interpretations of a wide range of topics. Giant traffic jams as a sign of the new Moscow style, relationships between poets and alcohol, the “literaturization” of Russian power, and a nighttime train ride from East Berlin to the West, a dialogue between a foreigner and a Muscovite occurring in the future Russia. Whatever Sorokin writes about, his texts are always original, topical, and stylistically impeccable.
“Normal History” is a collection of articles and essays by Vladimir Sorokin written in the 2010s. On the one hand—an яркий and accurate slice of the era; on the other—original and vivid reflections on the world around us. Travel essays and sociological observations, personal memories and notes on literary studies, gastronomic details and architectural nuances—Sorokin skillfully blends journalism with fiction and offers completely unexpected interpretations of a wide range of topics. Giant traffic jams as a sign of the new Moscow style, relationships between poets and alcohol, the “literaturization” of Russian power, and a nighttime train ride from East Berlin to the West, a dialogue between a foreigner and a Muscovite occurring in the future Russia. Whatever Sorokin writes about, his texts are always original, topical, and stylistically impeccable.
09:08
01_Moskova
04:38
02_Podmoskva
05:23
03_Pervomat
05:35
04_Simbioz!
05:12
05_Pyl
05:11
06_Musor
05:22
07_Avtomatizm
05:19
08_Moroz
05:53
09_Zavtrak
04:41
10_Maslo
05:13
11_Kushat podano!
06:44
12_Pusche nevoli
08:32
13_Rok vpervye
09:41
14_Smeshno!
07:59
15_Temnaya energiya
04:52
16_Voda. kotoruyu my pem
05:30
17_Vodka
05:09
18_Glavnoe russkoe blyudo
05:12
19_Lutefisk
04:29
20_Bulimiya
05:14
21_Zhizn na ldu
05:06
22_Mordoderzhavie
04:38
23_Divnyy novyy mir
05:08
24_Roboty
05:43
25_Mezhdu
05:24
26_Nesnimaemoe
06:01
27_Modernizatsiya groteska
04:43
28_Literatory + alkogol
09:00
29_Kto napishet “Rakovyy korpus”!
04:51
30_Literaturschina
05:19
31_Kino
06:02
32_Nizkie zvuki
15:31
33_Razryvnoe vremya
21:45
34_Normalnaya istoriya
19:11
35_Vozduh slov
14:23
36_Podvodnyy les Peggi Guggenhaym
15:50
37_Gorod otkrytyh prostranstv
