“The Slynx” is a commentary about Russian and human society, about what is lost and what remains. Really what it is, though, is a commentary. Instead, it’s…well, it’s not exactly an allegory, but it’s sort of allegorical. In fact, pretty much everything about the story is ambiguous, often leaving the reader in doubt about what is happening and what has happened.īut you don’t read novels like “The Slynx” in order to find out what happens, although stuff *does* happen in the book. There’s a plot, but it’s not your standard triumphing-over-evil-and-adversity fare. It’s a dystopian novel set several hundred years in the future, but it’s dystopian scifi in the vein of Zamyatin’s “The Cave,” not “The Hunger Games” or all the other popular dystopian scifi pouring out of the US right now.įans of popular Western dystopian fiction may thus find themselves left hanging. Not just a little weird, but full-on, what-is-this-madness, weird. Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat: “The Slynx” is weird. So I finally decided to rectify this error and fill this lacuna in my reading knowledge. People were always bringing it up in conversation as something that, of course, we’d all read. “The Slynx” is one of those works that kept circulating on the edge of my reading consciousness.
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