The Slynx

The protagonist of this novel becomes addicted to reading books while lacking the intelligence to properly understand them. This novel itself is foremost wild, incredibly smart, imaginative, hilarious and overall constructed on so many layers, that I no doubt missed a lot of meaning as well :)

It's a dystopia set in a Russia after a blast, where society progressed backwards into superstituion-driven poverty that runs on trading and eating of mice, and more resembles a pre-industrial age than a future.

There's brilliance in this novel, and yet it felt hard to read it in that ‘enlightened' state. I felt like drifting in and out of appreciating all the wondrous things it does.