Others who should know what they are talking about have described Absurdistan (which I have not read) to me as classic Orientalism.
I mean, just look at the title.
--- Blackmail <blackmail.is.my.life at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm reading Gary Schteyngart's Absurdistan right
> now. It's kinda good, if
> you can get past the main character's intense
> self-loathing, which manifests
> itself mainly in extensive descriptions of his
> mangled penis. Then there's
> the fictionalized author, which is more of a
> distraction than anything else.
> However, these things happen against the backdrop of
> Putin's Russia and the
> U.S. post 9/11. I wish there were longer passages to
> describe those things.
>
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