"Blondel has written a comedy about an awkward encounter that’s a must-read. Funny, wise and conciliatory."
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Stern
“Oblivion is the poetic monologue of a post-Soviet flâneur reflecting on the nation’s grim past. Pastoral vignettes about peaceful dacha life quickly morph into a novelistic version of Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’.”
Serguei Oushakine, Professor of Anthropology and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Princeton University