Quantum theory of Oblom, by two friends
of mine who sent it to me from Russia (doesn't require knowledge of
math or physics; knowledge of Russian recommended but not required)
Milan Kundera is a Czech writer who emigrated to France in 1971. He
authored several well-known books such as The Unbearable Lightness
of Being, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, and
Immortality. I read the first two books and was struck by the
similarity of style to such an extent that I felt compelled to write
this parody. I attempted only to play on the peculiarities of style,
not to imitate the content of Kundera's work.
Andrei Platonov:
Inhabitant of the State: my English translation (the
Russian original of this story, "Государственный житель", along with
many other works is here) of a short
story by the prominent Russian writer of the 1930s. The story exposes
the ways of thinking promulgated by the Communist propaganda in 1920s
and 1930s and throws in quite a few realistic facts of everyday Soviet
life in those times.
