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    STUDIA PHILOLOGIA - Issue no. 1 / 2008  
         
  Article:   РОМАН О ПИНГВИНАХ / NOVEL ABOUT PINGUINS.

Authors:  ANTOANETA OLTEANU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Novel About Pinguins. The Snail Law is one of the most recent novels of Andrei Kurkow, one of the most popular Russian (Ukrainian) writers. As in his first novel (and the first part of the dilogy), The Death and the Pinguin (Moartea unui pinguin), we find a funny satire of post-Soviet society about unstability, corruption, bankrupt state, mafia-style crime and so on. Viktor, an impoverished writer and penguin-owner in modern-day Kiev, gets lucky when a local newspaper editor hires him to compose a series of obituaries of still living Ukrainian notables. But when his subjects start dying and acquaintances disappearing, it becomes clear that Viktor is involved in something sinister and he’s better off not asking questions. Viktor is the un-detective of an unfolding thriller (with perfect penny-dropping denouement), going about his daily duties, passive and powerless at the centre of events he doesn’t understand.  
         
     
         
         
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