The Russian Master''s Most Infamous Novel, A Dystopian Fever Dream About Cloning, Alternative Histories, And World Domination.vladimir Sorokins Blue Lard Is The Most Iconic And Iconoclastic Russian Novel Of The Last Forty Years. Thanks In Part To Its Depiction Of Stalin And Khrushchev Having Sex, Which Inspired A Putinist Youth Group To Throw Shredded Copies Of The Authors Books Into An Enormous Toilet Erected In Front Of Moscows Bolshoi Theater, Blue Lard Is The Novel That Tore Sorokin Out Of The Moscow Conceptualist Underground And Into The Headlines.the Book Begins In A Futuristic Laboratory Where Genetic Scientists Speak In A Joycean Dialect Of Russian Mixed With Chinesepeppered With Ample Neologismsand Work To Clone Famous Russian Writers, Who Are Then Made To Produce Texts In The Style Of Their Forebears. The Goal Of This Script-process Is Not The Texts Themselves, But The Blue Lard That Collects In The Small Of Their Backs As They Write.this Substance Is To Be Used To Power Reactors On The Moonthat Is, Until A Sect Of Devout Nationalists Breaks In To Steal The Blue Lard, Planning To Send It Back In Time To An Alternate Version Of The Soviet Union, One That Exists On The Margins Of A Europe Conquered By A Long-haired Hitler With The Ability To Shoot Electricity From His Hands.