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Paranoia
Victor Martinovich
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Description for Paranoia
Paperback. "Originally published in Russian in 2010 by AST (Moscow) and Astrel'-SPb (Saint Petersburg)." Translator(s): Ignashe, Diane Nemec. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 172 x 21. Weight in Grams: 456.
Banned in Belarus two days after it was published, Paranoia is a thriller, a love story, and a harrowing journey into one of the world’s last closed societies. The book never mentions Belarus or its capital, Minsk, but the setting is unmistakable. In his tragicomic prefatory remarks, author Victor Martinovich all but acknowledges the inevitable comparison: ""There is no more need to invent ‘1984’: just look around."" The state has so penetrated all areas of life—scrutinising even errant scraps of paper and utterances between lovers—that he must ""enjoin readers not to read this book."" But for those who do, Paranoia ... Read more
Banned in Belarus two days after it was published, Paranoia is a thriller, a love story, and a harrowing journey into one of the world’s last closed societies. The book never mentions Belarus or its capital, Minsk, but the setting is unmistakable. In his tragicomic prefatory remarks, author Victor Martinovich all but acknowledges the inevitable comparison: ""There is no more need to invent ‘1984’: just look around."" The state has so penetrated all areas of life—scrutinising even errant scraps of paper and utterances between lovers—that he must ""enjoin readers not to read this book."" But for those who do, Paranoia ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810128767
SKU
V9780810128767
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About Victor Martinovich
Victor Martinovich is a deputy editor of BelGazeta, a Belarusian weekly newspaper, and the dean of the Faculty of Politics at the European Humanities University, a Belarusian institution closed by the authorities in 2004 and now based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Diane Nemec Ignashev is Class of 1941 Professor of Russian and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College in ... Read more
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