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    La giornata di un opričnik
    La giornata di un opričnik
    La giornata di un opričnik
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    La giornata di un opričnik

    Di Vladimir Sorokin

    3.5/5

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    Russia, 2027. La monarchia è stata restaurata. Una rivoluzione neozarista ha costruito un nuovo Stato repressivo. La fustigazione è tornata, e il Cremlino è stato ridipinto del suo colore bianco originale. Il sublime auto-isolamento nazionale è stato riscoperto: un “Grande Muro” si estende dall’Europa attraverso il Caucaso fino ai confini della Cina a proteggere la Russia. Protagonista del romanzo è Andrej Komjaga che lavora come opričnik, membro della polizia segreta e braccio dello zar, sul modello dei peggiori eccessi di Ivan il Terribile. Quasi privo di personalità per la sua esasperata lealtà verso la Russia, lo zar e gli altri opričniki, è una delle guardie più temute del paese. Komjaga accompagna il lettore nella follia di una sua tipica giornata di lavoro, fatta di esecuzioni brutali e riti orgiastici, incontra la prima ballerina, una chiaroveggente e la zarina. Egli stupra e saccheggia, ma si commuove fino alle lacrime ascoltando le canzoni della sua terra.
    LinguaItaliano
    EditoreAtmosphere libri
    Data di uscita26 mar 2014
    ISBN9788865641064
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    • 4/5
      Excellent! Disturbing, but excellent.
    • 4/5
      A clever premise - morphing the olden days of the Boyars with modern Russian politics. Sorokin paints a deeply disturbing picture of modern day political "mechanics" in a style that is deceptively simplistic. A book that really stays with you. Don't let other reviewers scare you off - some of them obsess over some sexually explicit scenes in the book. There are actually far fewer than I expected given the reviews and they are no more than a few sentences each. They contribute to the overall sense of degradation of the characters and are not purely nonsensical sensationalism as they are in far too many books these days.
    • 4/5
      A tale of Russia gone bad, sounding all a bit like what we can see of Russia under Putin. Not a place to feel secure, certainly. Satiric, but as with all good satires, enough truth to keep one hooked. Well worth the read.
    • 5/5
      Swiftian satire at its finest, I suspect Sorokin was settling some literary scores as well. The House of Ruric has been restored in 2028, The Orthodox Church is now sleeping with the FSB and the result is a compelling dynamo through One Day In The Life (pun intended.) Europe, overwrought with Muslims, is walled of and Mother Rus and ally China engage on the highest levels, altering each other's language and customs to satisfy the bottom line and the approval of the Church Patriarch.
    • 3/5
      A day in the life of a bully boy/enforcer/spy "Oprichnik" in a future Russia ruled by a Putinesque autocrat. In this world, Russia has literally walled off Western Europe and has an economic relationship exclusively with China. The oprichniks are a brotherhood of zealous enforcers of the King's will. Their holy job includes execution of dissidents, destruction of property, collection of bribes and information about dissidents. They are the spiritual successors of the 1990s Russian mafia/KGB.I read this book after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It doesn't seem so far-fetched to imagine such a future for Russia now.
    • 2/5
      Like so many dystopias, Day of the Oprichnik is content to merely illustrate a world without adding much in the way of character or plot. Some books can get away with this, if the idea contained within is powerful or new enough to sustain the reader's interest by itself, but most dystopias do not meet this criteria. Generally speaking, dystopias must be graded on a curve: if they can articulate an extreme social or political scenario and demonstrate why and how such a scenario should be avoided, then can be considered at least functional. Day of the Oprichnik fails even this lowered bar. Not only does it lack both a plot and meaningful character development, but, for the average reader, it is impossible to tell what this book is criticizing, much less what that criticism actually consists of.There is a whole jumble of ideas here, most of which seem to be Russian cultural references that go beyond me. I've been to Russia, speak a little Russian, and maintain a vkontakte profile. Theoretically, I'm the target audience in the English-speaking world, and yet I couldn't make heads or tails of most of this. It is evidently a futuristic version of a tsarist state, with some elements of Soviet communism and 90s oligarchism thrown in. There are some other interesting, but largely undeveloped tidbits: China has become the dominant global power, the West is dependent on Russia for natural resources. But so what? Perhaps Sorokin leaves these threads alone because there is little potential to be mined from them. Mainly, this book is about state violence: it happens, apparently, in Russia, and it is bad. That seems to be the level of social critique offered by Day of the Oprichnik.Perhaps a better reader than I can explain some more of the references or better tease out some meaning from this book. I'm skeptical, but I'm willing to be convinced otherwise. Until then: if this remains Sorokin at his most "accessible," then English readers should stay away.
    • 2/5
      Well-written and imaginative, and gutsy in conception, but in my opinion its lack of a fully developed plot kept it from being a fully satisfying novel.
    • 4/5
      I read this book right after George Saunder's "CivilWarLand in bad decline" which was really interesting, as the books share a lot of themes and imagery. Both are set in a near future. Both are very much about countries (USA and Russia respectively) blowing nationalism and cultural heritage up to elephantiasis size to try and create an artificial sense of kinship. Both deal with nations producing nothing of worth where the paint is flaking and the hollow inside is showing.But where government is almost non-existant in Saunder's dystopia, Sorokin describes a very powerful, rigid and hierarchial state, that frowns on the communist past while at the same time building on it (this is Russia after all). More than anything though, the place we get to visit for a day is a bizarre, post-modern version of a reinstituted czardom, wallowing in everything russian behind a wall built against the "cyberpunk arab" Europe.Komjaga is a highly ranked operatjnik (security forces) and the book is basically a description of a regular day at work for him. He torches a nobleman's house, he does drugs with his collegues, he sorts out a situation at customs (while getting a share), he visits an oracle in Siberia - and finally participates in a bizarre ritual orgy in his boss' sauna. All of it written in a clear, laid back prose that gives you a feeling of mellowing into this weird world of manipulation, corruption, patriotism of the most stupid veriety and pure perversion. There's no big plot, no inner conflict, no real arc, just a fairly straight retelling of a pretty unusual everyday. I can't for the life of me quite figure out why, but this is even a bit of a page turner! If you want your dystopias solid, well-crafted and realistic, this might not be for you. If, on the other hand, you are okay with a book stepping into weirdness at times, while at the same time (or so it seems to me at least) saying something profound about Russia, this is well worth checking out.Oh, and not available in English for some strange reason...Bummer.

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