De feminis [About Women]

Vladimir Sorokin's new stories are about women: at war and in a cruel world, in circumstances hostile to female nature. , accurate, very different portraits, and united by one: the experienced violence irreversibly changes them, but does not erase, but only exacerbates their individuality. Sorokin remains himself - builds carnival dystopias, juggles with quotes from canonical Russian literature and embodies metaphors - and at the same time continues to move in a new direction. Increasing sympathy for the witnesses and unwitting participants in the great geopolitical dramas, the narrative and lyricism set by The Snowstorm and continued in Doctor Garin are especially noticeable in De feminis. Sensitive to the spirit of the times and invariably ahead of the times in his assessments, Vladimir Sorokin clearly opposes the dehumanization of antagonists.