☆ Radiant Terminus ì Antoine Volodine Jeffrey Zuckerman - Radiant Terminus, Radiant Terminus Part post apocalyptic adventure story and part scathing critique of humanity Volodine s award winning novel takes place after the fall of the Second Soviet Union against a bleak almost Tarkovskian l
- Title: Radiant Terminus
- Author: Antoine Volodine Jeffrey Zuckerman
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- Page: 282
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☆ Radiant Terminus ì Antoine Volodine Jeffrey Zuckerman, Radiant Terminus, Antoine Volodine Jeffrey Zuckerman, Radiant Terminus Part post apocalyptic adventure story and part scathing critique of humanity Volodine s award winning novel takes place after the fall of the Second Soviet Union against a bleak almost Tarkovskian landscape A number of damaged individuals wander this nuclear winter seeking safety both from the elements and from the psychotic Solovyei who invades people s dreams and torPart post ☆ Radiant Terminus ì Antoine Volodine Jeffrey Zuckerman - Radiant Terminus, Radiant Terminus Part post apocalyptic adventure story and part scathing critique of humanity Volodine s award winning novel takes place after the fall of the Second Soviet Union against a bleak almost Tarkovskian l
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☆ Radiant Terminus ì Antoine Volodine Jeffrey Zuckerman
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Antoine Volodine Jeffrey Zuckerman
This is Volodine s masterpiece a strange, bewildering, breathtaking, frightening, and spectacular post nuclear post exotic epic, rendered into exquisite English in this exquisite edition.
The contents of Radiant Terminus are given several possible origins from within the text Is this all the literary creation of Solovyei, mad poet shaman of the post apocalyptic irradiated taiga If so, has it all been recited onto ancient wax tubes, spoken to himself in a constant world creating undertone, or perhaps it is a theatrical creation enacted by Solovyei through undead puppets in the liminal space of some hazy between life or Bardo state Otherwise, it could perhaps have been sung by two [...]
In relativa agoniaLa maggior parte del romanzo risulta illeggibile monotono, noioso, vuoto, insignificante, senza ragione la parte finale, costituita da brevi racconti, di buona scorrevolezza e intensit Ho apprezzato molto le altre opere di Antoine Volodine pubblicate invece Terminus Radioso mi sembra un romanzo superficiale, dispersivo, scritto in modo precario e non curato I temi dell autore vengono riproposti in maniera ridondante, ripetitiva e artificiale una prosa infeconda segue un svilupp [...]
Let me begin by telling you a little about Antoine Volodine He publishes works under various heteronyms, similar to the poet Fernando Pessoa Each heteronym has a distinct body of work Some of his other heteronyms are Lutz Bassmann, Manuela Draeger, and Elli Kronauer And some of these also appear as characters in various works Elli Kronauer is a central character in Radiant Terminus The author has not revealed his real name Volodine describes his writing as post exotic fiction For me, this book i [...]
Review to follow post exotically.
Weird and mind numbing are the first descriptors that come to mind for this book I struggled to finish it but kept hoping that at some point I would understand what the author was trying to tell me The characters may be dead or in some intermediate world drifting along in the cosmos Or all the characters and everything that happens may be the creation of Solovyei, who never dies or never lives Solovyei tramples in the minds of the characters, makes the dead arise but not necessarily alive , assu [...]
As I sit here pondering the after effects of Radiant Terminus, I m listening to Bardo Pond, an appropriate accompaniment given the liminal nature of this strange and disconcerting novel I can t say it was a particularly pleasant trip through the irradiated taiga No, the dark sorcerer Solovyei, who works in plutonium like a sculptor handles clay, made certain that I would experience the slow stab wounds of immortality as closely as the written word would take me to the cold steel blade I can assi [...]
Tra sogno e realt , sempre ad un passo dall incubo una pila atomica che vuole solo essere costantemente saziata.Strani e desolati personaggi si aggiro in una Seconda Unione Sovietica collassata, venga essa rappresentata dall immensa taiga o dai kolchoz spettrali.A tratti si rischia di perdersi o solo che si Viaggia , ma la scrittura di Volodine, efficace e visionaria, una guida perfetta.Cit.
Terminus RadiosoIn un tempo indefinito, il mondo ha subito una catastrofe nucleare e la Seconda Unione Sovietica un enorme wasteland in cui la vita non sembra pi essere quella di prima, la natura non sembra essere pi quella di prima e, udite udite, anche il tempo non pi quello che conoscevamo Tutto nei pressi di Terminus Radioso, un kolchoz in mezzo a questa sconfinata zona contaminata, scorre diversamente gli umani vagano in una condizione sospesa a met fra la vita e la morte, il confine fra le [...]
Lists as mantras, rants and invocations incantations botany lessons Naming the Taiga poetry of decay, deterioration, detritus everything crumbled, turned into humus and magma of humid sawdust time stretching time took its time flowing, but it flowed olfactory writing Resin, rotting peat mosses, decomposing trees, marsh gas Stinking wafts from deep layers of the earth Scents of bark, viscosities stagnating beneath the bark, mustiness of larvae Mushrooms Moist stumps uncertain, shifting narrator s [...]
Definito romanzo post moderno, con tutto ci che di ambiguo questa parola porta con se, sicuramente un oggetto interessante in un futuro postatomico inondato da radiazioni, uomini, morti e vivi, semi vivi o immortali, si muovono lenti e confusi, manichini inerti o burattinai inquieti, vagando sperduti e senza meta, o con una meta posticcia, in quel sogno osceno chiamato realt Un mondo senza pi senso n motivi veri per agire, un mondo freddo e solitario dove i rapporti umani sono quasi impossibili, [...]
Second read It s amazing Although I will probably always prefer the elegiac, carceral books Songes de Mevlido, especially, and certain passages in Writers and Avec les moines soldats In many ways this is the novel of Solovie , a maleficent, bizarre creature shaman and Bluebeard and Solovey Razboynik Nightingale the Robber One longs to escape him, but the steppe is the most ensnaring labyrinth of all Still If it doesn t have the heroism of the other books with their intransigent ultra leftists a [...]
Strange, thought provoking thought erasing, and bleak, so so bleak This won t be for everyone, but Volodine certainly sucked me into this world and into this form genre of post exoticism Now I have to read his other books Will think about this one further and will perhaps write a review as it gets closer to the American release Thanks Open Letter for sending an advanced reader copy to my store Unabridged Bookstore
one billion stars this is the book for me.
Prepare to enter parallel universes where time collapses on itself it s circular the future and the past are always the present, where a 2,000 year old Gramma feeds and talks to a nuclear reactor core, where you never know if a character is living, dead, or somewhere in between, and where the characters exist mostly in a dreamlike state The setting is a nuclear wasteland after the fall of the second Soviet Union The antagonist Solvyei is much too powerful and it s not difficult to figure out wha [...]
I read the first two pages as an ebook sample and thought what terrible writing and even worse translating Luckily I had to read this for a book group, because I started again with a print copy and thought what amazing writing and translating Once I got used to the rhythm of the writing and the weirdness of this particular bardo, I found so much post exotic humor and creativity Definitely a book that works best as a group read.
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Tristemente abbandono circa a met romanzo Tristemente perch sempre pi spesso mi trovo dinanzi a libri che sulla carta avrebbero tutte le caratteristiche per entrare nel novero dei preferiti e invece mi annoiano, alla fine.Sar la vecchiaia.
In this latest from the self styled writer of post exotic works, the remnants of humanity move across a wrecked yet lush landscape, seeking shelter and rest a terminus, ultimately, where ceaseless, pointless wandering is no longer necessary Several characters wind up at a small commune called Radiant Terminus run by Solovyei, whose name conjures up a villain of traditional East Slavic oral epic poems Volodine s Solovyei, though, creates and declaims his own epic narrative prose poems that tell o [...]
This is an extremely difficult book to rate for me I think the writing and translating were excellent and the premise was interesting but I did not enjoy reading this book I m not exactly sure why either It s very dark but those are the books I tend to love Something about this just felt like it was draining my soul I m not sorry I read it but I m really happy to be finished with it.
Ce fut une lecture difficile Autant l absence totale de rep res est justifiable dans un monde post apocalyptique, autant le c t caricatural et monochrome des personnages me laisse pantois les hommes sont tous des violeurs sinon en acte, du moins en puissance, int ress s uniquement par le sexe et totalement stupides les femmes sont toutes des feminazies pires que toutes les caricatures que pourraient faire un Zemmour des Femen sorti de cela, on ne trouve que du pseudo marxisme leninisme plus proc [...]
Pas une lecture facile, mais tr s impressionnant.Un vrai travail narratif et linguistique, et une ambiance tr s particuli re, la fois absurde, parfois lyrique, travers e d un sens de l humour tr s noir a rappelle le D sert des Tartares, pour l attente, l oubli, les soldats et le train ou encore Le Ch teau avec des r p titions, une sorte de non progression circulaire, l importance de tout et rien, ou encore l alternance de trivialit s et de consid rations m taphysiques.
L umanit immaginata da Volodine in questo libro abitata da morti che camminano, personaggi inconsapevoli della loro condizione che si aggirano straniati tra le macerie di quel che resta Post capitalisti, post comunisti post vivi probabilmente o peggio, perch il dramma del personaggi di Terminus radioso nasce non solo dal fatto di essere morti, ma di essere morti che non riescono a morire completamente, uomini e donne che vivono nei sogni e negli incubi di altri e che neppure l riescono ad essere [...]
Quite incredibly ambitious work that managed to be both fantastical and frightening in its portrayal of a post apocalyptic Soviet landscape We learn of a world inhabited by humans either teetering on the brink of death from radiation sickness or actually dead and maintained in an oneiric existence by a mad and evil genius, Solovyei Solovyei possesses god like powers of control over others, thought manipulation, maintenance of life, where death would be merciful, extended over centuries of tormen [...]
Normalmente qui do un giudizio sul libro, ma nel caso di Terminus Radioso, ho una seria difficolt.Tanto per cominciare un romanzo romanzo che richiede un sacco di concentrazione, badilate di pazienza ed una profoda propensione al lavoro non lo si legge soltanto, lo si decodifica A prova di ci , a fine libro ancora non ho davvero capito chi possa essere la voce narrante che a tratti lascia trapelare la prima persona E se dietro di questa ce ne fosse un altra E un altra ancora E se due di queste f [...]
Tu credi di essere ancora vivo, e invece finita Sei solo un avanzo Travolgente.L ho vissuto, sentito nella carne Ho sentito le radiazioni travolgermi, aprirmi la mente e trasportarmi nel mondo tanto inquietante quanto affascinante costruito da Volodine Tra onirico, fantastico e reale la terra di Terminus Radioso un simil bar do popolato da post vivi post morti nomadi che vagano in questa taiga priva di confini parola senza senso in questo caso geografici, temporali, vitali Pi che chiedersi chi s [...]
I don t think Brian Evenson, in his foreword, is right you should not start here with Volodine This is a strange, disparate, sometimes aggressively noncommittal book It s fascinating and intermittently compelling, it has profound things to say and radical, strange ways to say them, but it took me a long time to get through, and I am a rather rabid admirer of Volodine.If you re already a convert, this is obviously a must read, and it has many delights and many challenges Volodine is one of the mo [...]
This one was a little odd, even for me The style was difficult to follow, and to be honest, I m not sure I totally understood it I think it s something to revisit when I m in a analytical frame of mind and not reading for pleasure, if that makes sense That being said, the prose is lovely, the characters are complex and interesting, and the general plot is fascinating
Per Volodine la narrazione tutto In questo libro mette in scena un tema fondamentale del post esotismo un mondo in via di disfacimentopiegodilibri recensioni
I couldn t finish it I appreciated what the author was trying to do, something different But I couldn t buy into it and found the book too laborious to read I didn t enjoy picking it up, rather I dreaded it So, I put it down and left it.