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Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery…a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog…[with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts."
J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story…that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly."
"An aesthetically blissful reading experience.… Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." ―Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement
"…Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant." ―Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
"A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book.… Pure pleasure for the literary mind." ―Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun
Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire: A Novel, by José Manuel Prieto- Amazon Sales Rank: #9426002 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Formats: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x .50" w x 5.25" l,
- Running time: 10 Hours
- Binding: MP3 CD
From Publishers Weekly Cuban-born Prieto infuses this story of two hoodlums in love in 1990s Turkey and Russia with wisdom that transforms it from a mere romance into an allegory for current economic transition in Eastern Europe. A young smuggler called J. first meets the alluring V. in Istanbul. Having accepted an assignment to trap a rare butterfly for illegal sale, J. tries to smuggle V. (who carries no official identification) across the Turkish border and back to her homeland when he goes butterfly hunting in the coastal Russian countryside. Once J. and V. arrive in Odessa, V. vanishes, and yet she continues to write J. a series of elliptical letters, which he continually tries and fails to answer. J.'s search for butterflies is a perfect metaphor for his love for V., whom he has hopelessly idealized. With J. drawing upon some of the most passionate correspondence of all timeDincluding the tormented missives of Abelard and Heloise and the suicidal letters of Heinrich von Kleist and his adulterous loverDas models for his own love letter, his quest gains historical resonance. The book buzzes with beguiling lyrical profundities, but Prieto knows how to create a claustrophobic atmosphere as well, adding to J.'s list of worries: a nosy neighbor breaks into J.'s apartment and steals his letters from V., mistaking them for links in a treasonous plot. Meanwhile, it's clear that V. embodies the independent spirit of post-Communist Russia, shucking off J. just as contemporary Russians are abandoning their previous way of life. Although flashbacks tell much of the story, the narrative is seamless. Well-crafted rhapsodies, in conjunction with a competent sense of pacing, keep it in a perpetual state of graceful yet gripping motion. Prieto isn't quite a Nabokov or a Kundera, but his promising debut should appeal to fans of delicate, pointed prose like theirs. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist Cuban-born Prieto, who spent 12 years studying and working in Russia, has written a novel that is at once entertaining in its own right and also a homage to Vladimir Nabokov. The protagonist and narrator of this structurally complex tale, J., is an international smuggler hired by a Swede to capture a rare butterfly. However, in Istanbul he meets the beautiful V., who has been lured from her Russian village into a life of white slavery. J. soon contrives to help V. escape and return with him to Russia, but like most risky plans, this one comes to a different ending than J. had counted on. The connection with Nabokov is more than butterflies, as Prieto appropriates the (later) Nabokovian manner of slipping Russian phrases and sentences into his text. Furthermore, J. is something of a linguist (having a rudimentary to excellent knowledge of various languages, as his trade would require) and a well-read one at that, who often makes literary allusions. Prieto's a good enough writer to handle that neo-Nabokov style, and he succeeds on the whole despite an ending weakened by his metaphysical bow to Dostoevsky (whose work Nabokov disliked). Frank CasoCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
From the Inside Flap Jose Manuel Prieto is one of the most exciting new talents in Latin America, combining the intellectual sophistication and luminous prose of Nabokov with the worldview of a scion of Castro's Cuba and post-communist Russia. Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire is a novel of immense power and originality.
J. is a smuggler living on the fringes between Eastern and Western Europe, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. He has taken a commission to illegally trap a rare Russian butterfly, and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. Just over the border in the port of Odessa, she deserts him, so J. continues alone to their original destination, a small village on the Black Sea. Then she begins to send him letters, and he waits, searching for the answer that will lure the butterfly into his net and V. back into his life.
Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire is sure to establish Jose Manuel Prieto as a writer of international stature.
"Inside and outside of Cuba, Jose Manuel Prieto is already regarded as the most exciting and original talent of his generation. His novels blend playful literary erudition and 'street' worldliness in a new and dazzling way. Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire offers the most hilariously wounded and obsessive narrator since Pale Fire's Charles Kinbote, along with an unforgettable depiction of cultural and historical dislocation, disintegration, and nostalgia."--Francisco Goldman
"A story of love and self-knowledge graced with the psychological power which is the imprimatur of Russian literature, lightened by a certain Caribbean freshness.... Intrigue, seduction, love, intensity, mathematical precision and devotion to detail, as well as an abundance of surreal science and high culture which manages never to be excessive.... A cutting-edge work touched by the magic of great literature."--Gabi Martínez, La Vanguardia (Barcelona)
"Traversing the forms--among others--of the adventure novel, the travel book, the philosophic essay, the love letter, the moral epistle, the confession, the parable, Jose Manuel Prieto has written a book of a most original texture...set amid direct reportage of a crumbling empire."--Ignacio Echevarría, El País (Madrid)
Jose Manuel Prieto was born in Havana in 1962. In 1986 he graduated with a degree in engineering in Novosibirisk, the capital of western Siberia. He remained in the Soviet Union for twelve years, where he translated the works of Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova into Spanish, was an engineer in a Siberian telephone plant, and worked in the import-export field. He is also the author of the novel The Encyclopedia of Living in Russia and a short-story collection. Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire is his first book to be published in English. Currently he lives in Mexico City with his wife, Yelena, and daughter, Alicia, where he is a professor of Russian history at the Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. The lost art of letter writing... By cnyadan I liked this book well enough reading it, even though it is a bit slow for my style. Actually, in the present, not a whole lot happens other than the main character has made his way to the Crimea on the pretense of trying to find a specimen of butterfly that is said to be extinct, but if he finds, he will be paid a pretty penny for.However, there's more to the book than a butterfly place. J. (the main character) is a player.. He makes his money buying things, selling things, transporting things across borders, etc. "Professional smuggler", if you will. He thinks he's the master of his game.And maybe he is one of the masters of the goods-running, but he wasn't expecting V., a beautiful Russian woman, who played on his feelings, then used him to escape Turkey and return to her native Russia. J. is convinced that somehow, since she has managed to contact him through the post, that he can study the art of letter writing to somehow find favour with her once again.With such a scenerio, the 'more classic' writing style fits well. Reading this, one can almost imagine that one is back in the late 1800's, despite the fact that the map of Europe has changed drastically, and one of J.'s wares that comes up many times are night-vision-goggles. At the same time though, had I not a lot of "down time" to actually sit and read, I'm not sure that I would have had the patience needed to enjoy the 'atmosphere' of the book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Unique and absorbing. Not, however, lite reading. By David J. Gannon Nocturnal Butterfiles of the Russian Empire is a very complex and convoluted book. Written by a Cuban writer, the story nominally revolves around a Cuban smuggler in Russia who is attracted to, and decides to rescue, a Russian expatriate in Istanbul from a life of sexual enslavement. The real subject of the book is the ways in which social upheaval can color one's life and philosophy in ways that one cannot originally imagine.The essentials of this story are laid out quickly and succinctly at the beginning--virtually the only quick and succinct aspects of this novel. For this is a very densly wriiten and convoluted text. Prieto imbues the protagonist's--identified only as J--voice with endless layers of descriptive detail that run on in ever longer extended sentences that often encompass four or five complete sub-subjects within it's bounds. This does not make for light reading. On the other hand, Prieto is blessed with a truly wonderful ability to render the visual into the verbal, leaving a seemingly endless series of complex visual mental images in one's head with every turned page.Although superficially the two main characters are on every level unlikable, Prieto infuses them with such introspective flair and bravado that one comes to sympathize with them and, therefore, take the threats to their enterprise very much to heart, making this the most unlikely of suspense novels. The only other book I can remotely compare it to id Smilla'Sense of Snow, another dense and multi layered story involving somewhat repulsive protagonists one nevertheless gets to care about deeply.While this one takes some effort to get through, the effort is well worth while. This is a very compelling and engrossing read.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. Witty, Delicate, Delightful By wordtron Imagine the precocious offspring of Borges and Nabakov. Then imagine said progeny in front of a typewriter, living off the sum total of his parental royalties. The result would be something like this. Read it slowly, savor its many smile-inducing similes, like comparing the accumulation of traffic at a red light, and then it's release at a green light to that of a drop of water approaching its maximum weight before falling off the tip of a leaf. Something like that. I'm not the author. Obviously. Just a reader who enjoyed the author's work. Like the wings of a butterfly -- delicate, intricate. You'll want to chase after it again and again.
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