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Angst (novel)Angst (Russian: ?????) is a 2001 "erotic mysticism novel with a detective plot" by Oleg Postnov —a work that transgresses the genres, and yet the critics discern a panoply of literary and philosophical influences in the novel. The critics have claimed that Angst builds on the tradition of Pushkin's Queen of Spades, Gogol's (Russian: ??? and even on the writings of Jorge Luis Borges Of course, the longer the list of the claimed influences, the more one questions the degree of any of the influences. Postnov's Angst took the first prize in the "Catch of 1999" Russian nationwide competition.

Strah, the German translation 2003

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A story of love of a Russian youth and a Ukrainian beauty is set in the deep Ukrainian country in 1991. Postnov's insightful treatment of the political and ethnographic background of that year became freshly relevant in 2014, when Ukraine's renewed struggle for territorial integrity captivated the world's attention again.


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