Saturday, February 14, 2009

BLOG: Mythologizing in Chechnia with Makanin’s “Asan”. (lizoksbooks.blogspot.com)

Ah, war stories! On the surface, Асан (Asan), Vladimir Makanin’s Big Book prize winner, is a stream-of-consciousness account of events in the life of the Russian manager of a military warehouse in Chechnia. Deeper down, Asan is less a book about Russia’s Chechen wars than an unsatisfying, twitchy novel showing how war forces participants and observers to piece together narratives that explain or justify actions.

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