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		Sorokin the writer has generated among Conceptualist artists, and he is still a very good artist himself, though not exhibiting now.
		Sorokin is one of the most successful alternative writers - until the mid 90-s he was quite well known in the West and his novels were published in a dozen countries, besides Russia.
		The "discourse problem" of Sorokin's texts consists in predictability of reactions of bothe the "typical" reader and the specialist, which the author successfully manipulates.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/Exhibit/6196/sorokin-bio.htm (279 words)

	Владимир Сорокин. Vladimir Sorokin [english] - Критика (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sorokin is a writer who is not only demolishing literary and cultural taboos in his works, but also challenging the notion of literature itself, and the role of the reader in the literary process.
		The story is typical of Sorokins technique, in which a new artistic form is born from the dribs and drabs of different texts: a patchwork of separate, unconnected texts of a sexual or physiological nature, of socialist realism and erotic hallucinations.
		Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin was born on the 7
	www.srkn.ru /criticism/gillespie.shtml (2081 words)

	Vladimir Sorokin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vladimir Sorokin was born on August 7, 1955 in the small town of Bykovo, near Moscow.
		Sorokin’s development as a writer took place amidst painters and writers of the Moscow underground scene of the 1980s.
		Sorokin's books have been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, Italian, Polish, Japanese, and Korean and are available through a number of prominent publishing houses, including Gallimard, Fischer, DuMont, BV Berlin, Haffman, and Verlag der Autoren.
	www.srkn.ru /english (465 words)

	RIA Novosti - Online news - VLADIMIR SOROKIN'S REBIRTH
		Sorokin's literary debut was in 1972 when he published his poetry, not prose, in a newspaper entitled For Oil Producers (Za Kadry Neftyanikov).
		Sorokin stammered badly at the time, which complicated his transition into the new status, as he could not read his works in public, something Dmitry Prigov did for him.
		Sorokin aimed to shatter the moral basics of human existence, cause irreparable "breakdowns" in the unconscious.
	en.rian.ru /onlinenews/20050405/39697434.html (900 words)

	CNN.com - Russian sex row author summoned - July 25, 2002
		Vladimir Sorokin faces up to two years in prison over a chapter in his 1999 postmodern novel 'Blue Lard,' which is said to contain foul language and describes clones of dictator Josef Stalin and his successor Nikita Khrushchev having intercourse.
		Sorokin was ordered to appear at the Moscow prosecutor's office on Monday, his lawyer, Alexander Glushenkov, was quoted by The Associated Press as saying.
		Sorokin is the first in Russia to face pornography charges since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/europe/07/25/russian.author (632 words)

	RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
		Sorokin attracted the attention of prosecutors after Walking Together, a pro-Kremlin youth group, filed a criminal complaint alleging that the novel is contaminating Russian literature.
		Sorokin said that in Russia, it is always difficult to understand the true meaning of events.
		Sorokin refused to testify, saying it is humiliating for a writer to offer explanations for the things he writes.
	www.rferl.org /features/2002/07/29072002145019.asp (888 words)

	Genis Russian Literature
		Vladimir Sorokin, author of the pop-art books The Queu22 and Marina's Thirtieth Love23 the metaphysical parody The Hearts of Four, the anthology of stylizations entitled Stories24 the novel called Novel, and many other works, is the énfant terrible of Russian letters.
		Sorokin's most incomprehensible and least understood novel, The Norm25 explores this type of "schizoreality." Composed mainly of fractured pieces, this book is unified by a single common thread: the author destroys the sign, thereby annihilating any transferable meaning of words.
		Sorokin's theme is the fall of Soviet man, who, having lost his innocence, is exiled from the socio-realist Eden into an incoherent, chaotic world that is subject to no overriding common plan.
	www.unlv.edu /centers/cdclv/archives/nc2/genis_chaos.html (11260 words)

	CONTEXT: Vsevolod Brodsky: Letter from Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vladimir Sorokin, for example, was first published in 1989 by the elite Riga journal Rodnik, but hardly anyone noticed.
		Sorokin's attempt to create an accessible narrative does not quite come off--though the individual pieces are remarkable (especially the part about the Siberian earthfuckers, who practice an annual earth-fucking ritual), the whole does not coalesce.
		Sorokin seems to have fallen victim to the current literary fashion, again under the pressure of popular genres, for satisfactory plots.
	www.centerforbookculture.org /context/no9/brodsky.html (2680 words)

	Bolshoi Theater Stages Modern Opera Amid Protests - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sorokin says the opera is not violent, pornographic or even erotic and was generally well-received at dress rehearsals.
		Sorokin believes the multi-million-dollar facelift could be used as a tool to oust the opera from the theatre, since there were no legal grounds for banning it.
		Vladimir Putin met foreign academics and journalists at his countryside residence at Novo Ogarevo on Sept. 9 to discuss Russia’s domestic and foreign policy, ties with China, Iran and the U.S., energy and economic issues.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/03/24/bolshpremiere.shtml (959 words)

	Russia - Censorship - Sorokin - Worldpress.org
		Vladimir Sorokin The novelist faces legal action on pornography charges for portraying homosexual relations between clones of Stalin and Krushchev (Photo: AFP).
		The Sorokin case, which as a detective story is inferior to Limonov’s, greatly exceeds it in scale, the passions it excites, and its appeal to television.
		Limonov and Sorokin have different literary destinies and manners of writing; therefore they are going to be tried on different criminal charges.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=831&dont=yes (943 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Sorokin,
		Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovitch SOROKIN, PITIRIM ALEXANDROVITCH [Sorokin, Pitirim Alexandrovitch], 1889-1968, Russian-American sociologist.
		Sorokin was imprisoned three times by the czarist regime; during the
		Profile: Dispute in Russia over a book by Vladimir Sorokin and whether or not it is the dissemination of pornography
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Sorokin, (331 words)

	FileRoom.org - Sorokin's Goluboe Salo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Like all of Sorokin's works, this one is full of obscenities, but Blue Lard also includes a scene of sexual contact between Stalin and Khrushchev — with neither character bearing any resemblance to historical reality.
		Results of Incident: The Sorokin case caused a visible split in the Russian society.
		While some (a seeming majority) insist on an author's freedom to write and the public's freedom to read whatever they please, others are concerned, lest obcene books corrupt their children, and demand that restrictions be imposed.
	www.thefileroom.org /documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/561 (276 words)

	CONTEXT - This Week in Arts and Ideas from The Moscow Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The idea of the superman has appealed to Russians for centuries, and Vladimir Sorokin's eagerly anticipated new novel is no exception.
		Vladimir Sorokin is probably the only living Russian author who can be called classic, so it's no wonder his new novel, "Bro's Way" (Put Bro), was so eagerly awaited.
		Sorokin makes the sophomoric wish to be superhuman sound absurd and funny -- exactly the way it should.
	context.themoscowtimes.com /stories/2004/09/24/108.html (655 words)

	KinoKultura
		Vladimir’s performance, however, has more far-reaching effects than those of his acquaintances, despite the fact that he is the only one who admits to lying about his occupation.
		Vladimir notes that the optimal survival rate has proven to be associated with the set of four―rather than two or, say, twelve―copies of the same chromosome.
		Sorokin (since this is his philosophy) couples Bakhtin with Kafka; and what happens with Volodia proves that Bakhtin’s optimism in regard to human incompleteness, is groundless.
	www.kinokultura.com /reviews/R10-05chetyre-1.html (2847 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In 2002, the government, prompted by Moving Together activists, initiated a criminal case against Sorokin under Article 242 of the Russian criminal code: “illegal distribution of pornographic materials and objects” was the charge.
		Sorokin, who is nearing fifty, is an indefatigable explorer of the verbal and the carnal.
		In an earlier novel, “The Norm,” he depicted the humiliations of Soviet life with a metaphor that’s one part Pasolini and one part “Pink Flamingos”: sooner or later, all of his characters are forced to eat “the norm,” a ration of what is unmistakably human feces.
	www.newyorker.com /printables/talk/050404ta_talk_lipman (587 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Europe \| Russian satirist sued over 'gay Stalin'
		Vladimir Sorokin, a surreal novelist who is one of Russia's rising literary stars, is accused of spreading pornography with his novel Blue Bacon Fat.
		The charges were brought after a youth group loyal to President Vladimir Putin protested about the book, publicly destroying copies in the centre of Moscow.
		Mr Sorokin denies being a pornographer and accuses his detractors of being "post-Communists".
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/2122713.stm (431 words)

	Vladimir Sorokin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vladimir Georgievich Sorokin (Russian: Владимир Георгиевич Сорокин) (born August 7, 1955) is a contemporary postmodern Russian writer.
		In 1977, he graduated from the Moscow Instutute of Oil and Gas with a degree in engineering, but quickly abandoned this field to pursue his interests in graphic arts, painting, and conceptual art.
		In September 2001, Vladimir Sorokin received the People's Booker Prize; two months later, he was presented with the Award of Andrei Bely for outstanding contributions to Russian literature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vladimir_Sorokin (479 words)

	A R T M a r g i n s
		Vladimir Sorokin went into the cell with a song and came out on the theatre stage, during which, Bernhard Schütz, the actor of the Volksbühne, read from Sorokin's book "Blue Lard", the author's description of his situation in Russia.
		Sorokin became, in the 1980s, a part of the Moscow Conceptualists, together with D.A. Prigow, L. Rubinstein, A. Monastyrskij and the Medical Hermeneuten.
		The question of the legitimization of this crossing of boundaries and that of effect and artistic sovereignty is therefore always subject to concurring systems of law.
	www.artmargins.com /content/review/welminsky.html (2011 words)

	Vladimir Sorokin - Samuel Fischer-Gastprofessor im Sommersemester 1998
		Vladimir Sorokin gehört seit Anfang der Achtziger zu den Moskauer Konzeptualisten, die Traditionen der Avantgarde radikalisieren.
		Sorokin gewann sein Publikum für die Gründer dieser Schule, von Andrej Monastyrskij über Viktor Nekrasov bis zu Dmitrij Prigov, indem er Videoaufnahmen von den frühen Aktionen der Konzeptualisten vorführte.
		Sorokin chronologisiert seine eigene Entwicklung als Romanschriftsteller, indem er erst von seiner Beschäftigung mit der Musik, mit Zeichnen und mit der Choreographie berichtet, bevor er von seiner ersten literarischen Begegnung mit Kabakov, Bulatov, Prigov und Monastyrskij zu sprechen kommt.
	www.complit.fu-berlin.de /gastvortraege/gastprofessur/sorokin.html (1076 words)

	Sorokin Case - Johnson's Russia List 7-29-02
		Sorokin said he did not wish to take part in "the theatre of the absurd."
		The writer's lawyer Genrikh Padva told the press that Sorokin exercised his right provided in Article 51 of the Russian Constitution, which provides for the immunity of witnesses.
		The writer was summoned for questioning in connection with the criminal proceedings instituted against him on the basis of Article 242 of the Russian Criminal Code (the distribution of pornography).
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6375-16.cfm (252 words)

	Putin youth protest at `vulgar pornography' on show at the Bolshoi Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		Mozart's girlfriend is a soprano called Tanya; she is managed by a baritone pimp working near one of the capital's main railway stations.
		Sorokin, a well-known postmodernist author, has courted controversy in the past, notably in his novel Blue Lard which features homosexual scenes between the Soviet leaders Stalin and Khrushchev.
		Sorokin has said he finds the scandal ludicrous and alarming.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050315/ai_n12940863 (512 words)

	NYRB Classics: Ice
		Simultaneously a master manipulator of language, a kind of DJ of the word, and a worthy successor to Gogol, breathing new life into the great Russian tradition of fantasy and humor that began with "The Overcoat" and "The Nose," Sorokin mixes genres to hypnotic effect.
		It follows a secret sect of blond-haired, blue-eyed people, whose hearts have been “awakened” by contact with a block of interstellar ice, as they seek to hunt down their spiritual "brothers and sisters" among the population of Moscow.
		Sorokin's successful thriller is a sophisticated and skillful deconstruction of a utopian project of human transformation...
	www.nybooks.com /shop/product?product_id=5962 (274 words)

	Vladimir Sorokin, Blue Lard censorship battle
		Russian novelist Vladimir Sorokin lost his copyright lawsuit against protesters who reprinted, then burned copies of his book Goluboye Salo.
		Vladimir Sorokin's personal site is pretty cool even if you don't read Russian.
		Moscow prosecutors have charged writer Vladimir Sorokin with "spreading pornography" for depicting Stalin and Khrushchev as gay lovers in his satirical novel Goluboye Salo (translated as Blue Bacon Fat or Blue Lard in different sources).
	www.dazereader.com /vladimirsorokin.html (410 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		The investigation alarmed free speech advocates, who fear a return to Soviet-style censorship under President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer who was elected on pledges to restore order to society.
		The opera's libretto, which was penned by controversial writer Sorokin, tells the story of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, cloned by a scientist in the Soviet Union, who are thrown into poverty after the Soviet break-up, and resort to busking.
		Sorokin was investigated in 2002 for his book 'Goluboye Salo' (Blue Lard) which includes a depiction of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and former president Leonid Brezhnev having romantic sex.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=28355 (782 words)

	Vladimir Sorokin - Der himmelblaue Speck - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Vladimir Sorokin, 1955 in Moskau geboren, arbeitete nach einem Ingenieurstudium als Buchillustrator, bevor er Mitte der siebziger Jahre erste literarische Anerkennung erfuhr.
		In Wahrheit hätten wir es bei Sorokin `nämlich mit einem Nostalgiker zu tun`, schreibt Kaube, der Sehnsucht habe nach der Vergangenheit, nach dem Kollektiv, nach `Auslöschung der Phrase`.
		Er findet Sorokins Faszination für die "operettenhafte Ästhetik von Stalinismus und Nationalsozialismus" zwar "ambivalent", insgesamt scheint er aber beeindruckt von der sich überschlagenden Erzählung und den bizarren Einfällen in "Russlands erstem Klon-Roman".
	www.perlentaucher.de.cob-web.org:8888 /buch/3169.html (849 words)

	Russian Police Investigate Prominent Writer on Pornography Charges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The investigation alarmed advocates of freedom of expression, concerned about the possibility of a return to censorship under President Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer who was elected in part on the strength of promises to re-establish order.
		Sorokin said he did not rule out the possibility that he would face "a show trial" - a reference to political trials of the Stalin era.
		Sorokin, who was born in 1955, has written several novels, plays and a film script.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/714524/posts (1020 words)

	JRL #6352 - Gorbachev, Hoffman/ Literary Spring, Sorokin, Putilin, Poll/ Special Agencies, Tsipko & Nikonov/ Putin, ...
		The object of their anger in both cases was Vladimir Sorokin, a popular Russian author whose prose -- profane, bizarre and grotesque -- has drawn a devoted following.
		Said Prokhorova, "We are at the center of a cyclone." For Sorokin, the cyclone meant a recent visit to a police inspector, to respond to the legal complaint filed by the Putin youth group.
		I am not a fan of Sorokin, but I will protect his right to expression." Shvydkoi said he believes that the campaign was concocted as a publicity stunt for Marching Together, a view shared by Kabakov, the critic.
	www.cdi.org /russia/johnson/6352.htm (9953 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Russian Parliament Orders Investigation of 'Pornographic' Bolshoi Opera
		The opera’s libretto, written by Vladimir Sorokin, is about a Nazi geneticist who clones Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Mussorgsky, and Verdi for his own amusement.
		Sorokin’s vulgar plays in the theater which is a symbol of Russian culture.
		Sorokin, who holds that his work is “high tragedy” rather than pornography, told the Guardian, “All this in parliament is simply a manifestation of savagery and ignorance.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/1544.html (587 words)

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