Human cloning

[Olga Meerson]

I haven't followed the discussion yet--has somneone mentioned Pelevin's "Reconstructor"?

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From: Alexandra Smith <Alexandra.Smith at ED.AC.UK>
Date: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:02 am
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] Human cloning

> 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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