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“... gave her a subject. ‘Those years of struggle and loneliness opened my eyes,’ she told Sally Laird, her first English translator. ‘I started writing properly only when I discovered about suffering – not suffering on my own account, but fear for a beloved being.’ Her mother wrote all over newspapers in an indecipherable ...”

“... On returning from Munich to St Petersburg in the spring of 1837, the poet Tyutchev, as well known for his wit as for his verse, told a friend that he was suffering not so much from Heimweh as Herausweh; and, a little later, hearing that D’Anthès, Pushkin’s opponent in the fatal duel earlier that year, had been sentenced for his part in the affair to perpetual banishment from Russia, seized the opportunity for a mot by announcing that he would immediately go off and kill Zhukovsky – then, after Pushkin, the most famous poet in Russia ...”

“... experience is plain. The Queue is untypical of Sorokin’s work. As its translator, the late Sally Laird, points out in her preface, not only does it have a happy ending, but ‘no one is raped, mutilated or eaten on the way.’ In much of his early fiction, the narrative begins in a seemingly innocuous pastiche of Socialist Realist prose, before a ...”