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Tatyana Tolstaya's The Slynx reimagines dystopian fantasy as a wild, horripilating amusement park ride. Poised between Nabokov's Pale Fire and Burgess's A Clockwork Orange, The Slynx is a brilliantly inventive and shimmeringly ambiguous work of art: an account of a degraded world that is full of echoes of the sublime literature of Russia's past; a grinning portrait of human inhumanity; a tribute to art in both its sovereignty and its helplessness; a vision of the past as the future in which the future is now.]]> 64625 3.87 399 65 296516 3.79 132 34 2000 4 1 true Tue Apr 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 04 11:39:32 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 14 16:55:24 -0700 2009 more...]]>