Living Souls -- Dmitry Bykov

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        Sphere, 2011, Paperback - Fiction - 439 pp.

         A wide-ranging Russian novel dealing with the ideas of language, power, and national identity, this comic and thought-provoking work has tremendous relevance to the present day.

         Living Souls was very controversial when it came out in 2006, and the English language translater saw fit to abridge the work, and tone down some of the content.

         Bykov is elemental; a huge man with a huge voice and huge passion. In Russia hes basically a rockstar radio host, biographer of Pasternak, novelist, poet, TV personality hes a kind of cross between Melvyn Bragg and Bob Geldof; a cultural force who takes delight in causing outrage to enlighten.

         I cant help but hear an echo of P G Wodehouse's Vladimir Brusiloff in the assertion that its the best possible book in the world and since Bykov reads Wodehouse, that's not so far-fetched - Nick Harkaway.

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