Human cloning

[Alexandra Smith]

Dear Katia Bowers,

I agree with Josh Wilson that Sorokin's Goluboe Salo (1999) - Blue  
Lard (trans. by Jamey Gambrell)is a must for the course that you've  
mentioned. It contains some lively passages that feature various  
clones of Tolstoy and Akhmatova, for example...
I wonder whether Tatyana Tolstaya's Kys' (translated by Jamey Gambrell  
as The Slynx, 2003) could be considered, too? although it deals with  
mutation rather than cloning the thrust of her novel has some  
similarities with Sorokin's work...it certainly poses similar  
questions about social engineering, the role of science in a  
totalitarian society, the crisis of the Enlightenment tradition, etc.

All best,
Alexandra



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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Reader in Russian
Department of European Languages and Cultures
School of  Languages, Literatures and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
David Hume Tower
George Square
Edinburgh EX8 9JX
UK

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e-mail: Alexandra.Smith at ed.ac.uk



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