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Caught in a Venus flytrap: Red Pyramid, by Vladimir Sorokin, reviewed

Sorokin’s satirical stories are not for the fainthearted, but there are few more dedicated critics of Russia's infinite bureaucracy writing fiction today

Vladimir Sorokin in Germany in 2022. [Alamy] 
issue 30 March 2024
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  • Red Pyramid: Selected Stories

    Vladimir Sorokin, translated by Max Lawton

    NYRB Classics, pp. 298, £16

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