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Why is everyone in this novel all the time so insipid and expressionless to an extent almost inhuman

>> No.10661778
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>>10661769
Sorry to derail so early, but why does everyone get Stoner when they go for NYRB? I just ordered this because I couldn't find a torrent, and it seems right up my alley. Sorokin is supposed to be huge in Russia, anyone here read him, or particularly, this book?

>> No.10661805

>>10661769
>Insipid
>Expressionless
>The egg scene
>The hunchback rival getting angry bc of the hunchback student
>The Great War
>Stoners gfs father an heroing
>Stoners daughter when she was young
I want you to die

>> No.10661827

>>10661778
Sitting on my shelf. Saw it in a used bookstore and thought that I have too many unread books to add another, but after flipping through it and seeing it's bizarre structure, I had to get it. Hope to read it in the next few months.

>> No.10661851

>>10661769
Haven't read it but I did read Augustus and that shit was good