Russian Booker Prize Novel Series -- Stamp Album, Animal Cage

Author: Sergeyev
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Publish Date: 2003-09-01
Features: The protagonist is a scientist, a "dead soul," who was sentenced to death but managed to escape. After that, he constantly changes his wandering life among the people, hiding in basements, vanishing in sheds, living next to prostitutes, and accompanying corpses, wandering at the bottom of society. At the same time, he has been engaged in profound genetic and chromosome research, exploring the mysteries of cells and the human body, trying to unravel whether human good and evil are inherited. The Russian word "cell" originally means "cage." The novel also contains a dual meaning: to the protagonist, the people around him are an inescapable "cage of beasts," and human nature is often constrained by tiny "cells." The liberation of individuality faces numerous shackles. It is a realistic work full of absurdity. The author was born in 1930 and began publishing his works in the 1980s.