The blizzard

When asked about his title, the author gives an answer that leads into the future. "I love snow. Snow covers the earth and everything becomes beautiful. There are the upheavals, all the contradictions of everyday life, and then it snows and the world is beautiful," says Vladimir Sorokin in conversation about his novel, which, like Pushkin and Tolstoy, bears the title Метель ( Snowstorm ) and, at first glance, appears to be a condensation, an inte...