Death and the Pinguin by Andrey KurkovI've finished Death and the Pinguin a week ago. I was truly disapointed. It is the most popular russian book to be translated at the moment. Andrey Kurkov's latest book, The Nightly Milkman, was so much funnier, more twisted and more relevant. And by relevant I mean more political. It was also more intelligently written.
Ukraine and its politicians were pictured in an allegory consisting of ordinary people, with shrewed problems, absurd but appicable to society. For example, Irina, one of the female protagonists is wrongly led to believe that she is giving her breast milk to motherless infants, and is forced to feed her own daughter with milk substitute. She is poor and has no other source of income. All this time, though, she is providing one of the members of parlament milk for his daily bath in order for him to keep staying young looking. It is an attack by Andrey Kurkov on the guvernment, and what has become of the orange revolution. My interpretation is that the revolution promised so many things, blinded the masses, and that Ukraine now is corrupted. Considering that the parliament and Presidency are consists of different parties, one is also lead to believe that people are disappointed.
I am not too well read on Ukrainian politics to continue this discussion, but The nighlty milkman is still a more interesting book than Death and the Pinguin as the first is much more interesting on more than one level.
Ukraine and its politicians were pictured in an allegory consisting of ordinary people, with shrewed problems, absurd but appicable to society. For example, Irina, one of the female protagonists is wrongly led to believe that she is giving her breast milk to motherless infants, and is forced to feed her own daughter with milk substitute. She is poor and has no other source of income. All this time, though, she is providing one of the members of parlament milk for his daily bath in order for him to keep staying young looking. It is an attack by Andrey Kurkov on the guvernment, and what has become of the orange revolution. My interpretation is that the revolution promised so many things, blinded the masses, and that Ukraine now is corrupted. Considering that the parliament and Presidency are consists of different parties, one is also lead to believe that people are disappointed.
I am not too well read on Ukrainian politics to continue this discussion, but The nighlty milkman is still a more interesting book than Death and the Pinguin as the first is much more interesting on more than one level.
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