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OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism by Eugene Ostashevsky, Alexander Vvedensky, Daniil Kharms
5.0
White Noise by Don DeLillo
3.0
This book is fascinating, structurally interesting, and lusciously-voiced... but it's aged poorly in the past few decades. Publish in 1985, it presages the vogue for dissected, nihilistic-for-kicks, irony-laden material in the 1990s. Enjoying its meandering plot — a quirky romp with a past-his-prime Hitler Studies prof through an industrial-chemical catastrophe in a college town (where the college is named "College on the Hill") — felt increasingly weird and off-putting in 2018, as the news cycle spiraled into chaos, real nazis, the dissolution of nuclear arms reduction treaties, etc. etc. idk
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
5.0
Short and charming story about a hapless, lovable Russian émigré working as a professor.