Super Sad True Love Story– Introduction
At one point, I considered writing a thoughtful review of Gary Shteyngart’s much-discussed yet deeply disappointing novel, *Super Sad True Love Story*. I envisioned a review that might juxtapose Shteyngart’s stifled May-December romance with its dystopian backdrop.
Super Sad True Love Story– Overview
- Product name : Super Sad True Love Story
- Creator :Vincent Tore
- Price : $18.99
- Official Website : Click Here
- Recommendation : Highly Recommend!
- Niche: General
Super Sad True Love Story A Novel of Heartbreak and Hope
At one point, I considered writing a thoughtful review of Gary Shteyngart’s much-discussed yet deeply disappointing novel, *Super Sad True Love Story*. I envisioned a review that might juxtapose Shteyngart’s stifled May-December romance with its dystopian backdrop. This was early on, before I fully grasped that Shteyngart wasn’t bringing anything new to the dystopian genre I cherish. I hoped he might still offer some fresh insights into early 21st-century American culture and politics. But alas, *Super Sad True Love Story* turns out to be a regurgitation of *1984* and *Brave New World* through a modern lens, offering little more than Shteyngart’s observation that people may be reading less these days.
Here’s the obligatory plot summary: The story is set in a near-future America—one that’s only slightly transformed from our present reality. It depicts a nation under Bipartisan control, lacking an elected President, at war with Venezuela, heavily indebted to China, and essentially governed by a corporatocracy. People have stopped reading books, instead obsessively consuming data through their omnipresent “äppäräti”—screen devices to which they are addicted, and through which they indiscriminately share every detail of their lives. Sound familiar? It should. (Those pesky kids and their Facebooks!)
The protagonist, Lenny Abramov, is a son of Russian Jewish immigrants. He works for Post-Human Services, a company dedicated to extending human life indefinitely—provided you’re extremely wealthy. Lenny’s fixation on living forever, though never fully explained and tediously explored, is meant to satirize America’s obsession with youth. Unfortunately, the satire falls flat, lacking both humor and insight. During a period of Bohemian living in Italy, Lenny meets Eunice Park, a Korean-American woman twenty years his junior.
