The Waltz Invention by Vladimir Nabokov
An eccentric inventor unveils a fantastical machine that compels people and institutions to dance, and through its beguiling power upends political order and personal sanity; the work is a darkly comic satire on technological charisma, the seductive violence of aesthetic fetishism, and the ease with which spectacle and invention can become instruments of coercion and absurd authoritarian rule.
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- Izobretenie valsa
- Изобретение вальса
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