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The article focuses on the transgressive aspect of selected images of carnal love in the novel Голубое сало (Blue Lard) by Vladimir Sorokin. It is claimed that the contro-versial, hyper-naturalistic representations of sexuality can be perceived as materializa-tion of discourses (carnalization, as Mark Lipovetsky suggests). The main structures of power examined in the novel are totalitarian regime and literary tradition. By using the trope of defamiliarization and lowering the pathos of the two great discourses of Russian culture, Sorokin allows the reader to distance himself from their influence and thus extend the autonomy of thinking.