| 词条 | The Last of the Vostiaks |
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The Last of the Vostiaks (Italian: L'ultimo dei Vostiachi; also published as The Last of the Vostyachs) is a novel by the Italian writer Diego Marani. It is a satire of bias and prejudice in academic and philological research. It raises questions about language as an identity symbol and the solitude of the last speaker of a language about to disappear. PlotThe central character is a Siberian native, who has been prisoner in a Gulag and who speaks a language that has almost disappeared, one that keeps the last vestige of a vanished sound, the lateral fricative with labiovelar appendix. A Russian student comes to understand him and wants to show him to a congress on Uralic languages in Helsinki. However, a purist Finnish professor attempts to prevent the innocent Siberian appearance there as a living proof of the philological connection between the Finnish language and the American natives. The plot includes a Lapp pimp, country cottages with saunas, vacation boats in the Baltic Sea, and sometimes the narration takes a rowdy tone with reminiscences of Wilt by Tom Sharpe. ReceptionThe novel was longlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2013).[1] References1. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/boyd-tonkin-from-syria-to-colombia-and-albanian-to-afrikaans-enjoy-a-global-feast-8515245.html/Boyd Tonkin: From Syria to Colombia, and Albanian to Afrikaans, enjoy a global feast], Independent, March 2, 2013. {{DEFAULTSORT:Last Of The Vostiaks (The Last of the Vostyachs}}{{2000s-novel-stub}} 2 : 2013 Italian novels|Novels set in Siberia |
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