The Blizzard

When asked about his text, the author gives a forward-looking answer. I love snow. A layer of snow covers the earth and makes everything beautiful. There are the upheavals and all the contradictions of our daily lives, and then it snows and the world is beautiful," Vladimir Sorokin says of his short story. Like the works of Pushkin and Tolstoy, it bears the title Метель (The Blizzard) and, at first glance, reads like an intertext distilled from the Russian tradition of snowstorms. If you're outside and you get caught in a blizzard, that's it. It's a magnificent phenomenon, but also a terrible and fatal event. My story actually has three protagonists: the doctor, his coachman and the blizzard. The third wins out in the end".