Perverzion
by Yuri Andrukhovych
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What was the fate of Stanislav Perfetsky--poet, provocateur, and hero of Ukrainian underground culture? Evidence points to suicide. But some whisper murder. Some suggest the grand Eastern European tradition of coerced suicide. It may even be related to the religious cult ceremony he happened upon in Munich . . . or that job as a dancer in a strip club for older women. Or, then again, it may not. Perverzion constructs Perfetsky's final days using a mishmash of relics, from official documents show more to recorded interviews to scraps of paper. Perfetsky, the personification of the Ukrainian artistic superman--he used his masterful musicianship in a collaboration with Elton John during the pop star's secret sojourn in Ukraine--is bound for Venice to participate in a seminar to save the world from absurdity. On the way he becomes a Ukrainian Orpheus descending into the decadence of the West, navigating through surrealistic adventures and no less surrealistic seminar topics as he charges head up (and pants down) toward his fate. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- Perverzion
- Original title
- Перверзія
- Original publication date
- 1997
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- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Mystery
- DDC/MDS
- 891.7934 — Literature & rhetoric Asian Literature East Indo-European and Celtic literatures Russian and East Slavic languages Ukrainian and other East Slavic languages Ukrainian fiction 1991–
- LCC
- PG3949.1 .N296 .P4713 — Language and Literature Slavic languages and literatures. Baltic languages. Albanian language Slavic. Baltic. Albanian Slavic Ukrainian
- BISAC
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- 7 — English, Finnish, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian
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- ISBNs
- 9
