I did not know the world of Volodin and I let myself be taken by this post-apocalyptic world of a strange and morbid beauty! We are in Siberia, in what remains of the second Soviet Union; Two men and a woman wandering in a world destroyed by fratricidal wars, revolutions betrayed and nuclear disasters. They are defeated soldiers who venture on abandoned land, poisoned by radiation, knowing the fate that nature deadly for them. In this we will cross wandering beings and strange and evil places: a ghost train, a kolkhoz called, with cruel irony, "Terminus Radiant" beautiful girls as witches, a shaman with unlimited powers, crows talking. .. It is not always easy to get carried away by this powerful romantic breath, these strong and Baroque images that accompany their chaotic wandering these survivors of the Apocalypse! and especially by the invented language, incantatory, brutal and poetic. It there's humor too, especially black, and irony in the will of the undead to continue despite all the Soviet dream! But especially this novel sounds like the knell announcing disasters to come if man does not take the measure of chaos in which he risks plunging humanity if reason does not prevail over the fratricidal struggles and misguided ideologies.
