Biographies of modern writers
Each of his new novel is incredibly atmosphere and cinematic - and more than once the books of Ivanov were filmed. The scatter of the genres and the historical eras that the writer declared is quite impressive: “the geographer of the globe drank” - a novel about schoolchildren who go on the river campaign “The Heart of the Parma” - about the ancient Russian princes fighting with the indigenous peoples of Siberia “Napasty” - about the veteran of the Afghan war, who is trying to find himself in the dashing nineties “Tobol” about the construction of the first The Siberian Kremlin Kremlin “Cedeblock” is a mystical science fiction about the Soviet pioneer camp, where vampires live one of the important features of Ivanov - this is a reverent and painstaking work with the tongue and careful stylization for a certain era.
If he, for example, writes a novel about medieval Siberian tribes, then he will certainly abound in vocabulary from the languages of these peoples.
The glory of the Ural writer and the poet was brought by the "Petrovs in the flu and around him", published in the year. This is a novel about how, in a private provincial family, on New Year's Eve, everyone suddenly fell ill with a flu and began to hallucinate in painful delirium with memories of the past, which seemed to break the border between space and time. The novel became a bestseller, and critics wrote that Gogol with Bulgakov applauds Salnikov for the freshness of the tongue and view of literature.
In the year at the Cannes Film Festival, the premiere of the film adaptation of this book, Kirill Serebrennikov, was successfully held. Other Salnikov’s novels deserve attention: in “indirectly” poetry is represented as a real drug “Occultoreger” - fantasy from the hinterland where humanoid demons act and, after a terrible comedy about the Urals, Salnikov’s work began to be compared with the films of Alexei Balabanov.
But, of course, the author is most known under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, because it was he who gave the reader the most beloved Russian detective Erast Fandorin. In a series of about 20 detectives, a charming aristocrat of the late XIX - early XX centuries saves that beautiful lady, or even all of Russia. Of course, the series needs to be read completely, but the most unusual novels are: “Turkish Gambit”-a film-filled spy novel about a girl who went beyond the groom in the Russian-Turkish war “The Lover of Death”, which is very brightly shown the life of homelessness and bandits in the criminal Moscow district of the Khitrovka “Almazic chariot”, where the action takes place in Japan 4.
However, every year he sends a new novel to his publisher by e -mail, and every fall of criticism and numerous fans argue, he is brilliant or mediocre. Each new book certainly contains a satire on modern realities, whether it is an iPhone, covid masks or feminism, and necessarily contains elements of anti -utopia. His books are a tough satire and anti -utopia, and the prophecies from some even surprisingly came true almost accurately.
He often creates the conventions of the New Middle Ages in novels, while placing his heroes, for example, in the future after the nuclear war, Dr. Garin. The plots are so provocative and trigger is so many people that the youth movements even arranged stocks with the burning of quotes from the books of Sorokin. Many years later, Sorokin answered the novel “Manaraga”, in which he presented books as fuel, on which cooks are preparing expensive dishes for rich people.
Among other significant works by Sorokin: the debut novel “Norm” is a complex conceptualist work on the KGB and totalitarianism, which was distributed in X in Samizdat Anti -utopia “Oprichnik Day” about the life of the security forces, which is the action of the year “Tvluria”, which many consider to be the main book of Sorokin - a mosaic of 50 novels about the near future, where Russia is decayed Principality and where Orthodox communists live 6.
Having collected archival materials about the deportation of the Tatars in Siberia under Stalin, she voluntarily interpreted them in art prose, combining with the memories of her own grandmother. On the one hand, this is a book about terrible repressions, on the other hand, that even in terrible conditions a person can find himself, his own path and build his life. In the year, a series was published based on a book, however, the scandal and discontent of representatives of the Muslim community of Tatarstan caused.
So far, readers absorb the cinematographic novels of Yakhina who graduated from the scenario faculty of the Moscow Cinema School, critics scold the author for the operation of obviously sensitive topics. The next two novels of Yakhina also affect the most burning topics of Soviet history: “My children”-about the Volga Germans, the Civil War, the hunger and the deportation of the “Echelon on Samarkand”-about the starving orphans of the Volga region, which are evacuated on the train to the south 7.
In addition, its novels are translated into dozens of languages. The novel, which became a bestseller and brought Vodolazkin great glory - “laurel”, tells of a medieval young man who has lost his beloved woman. Unable to cope with grief, he devotes his life to serving God and goes to a kind of spiritual Odyssey in the country.He refuses his own desires, serves people and becomes a holy fool and even treats ailments.
International critics agreed that this is one of the best books about God in recent years. All the books of Vodolazkin are very different and very distinctive, but they are united by one thing - they all explore the past and present, the issue of history and the course of time. Among them: the story “Soloviev and Larion” about the white general and student studying his biography “Aviator” about the prisoner of the Solovetsky Gulag, who is frozen in the experimental laboratory and defrost the novel “Execution of the Island”, stylized under the ancient chronicle of the Chagin, who has an amazing property of remembering everything and not forget about 8.
His creative energy splashes out in a recording of songs with rap musicians, then in the leadership of a liter at the Moscow Art Theater. Today, he is more and more addressed to non-fiction, including writers writers. He began, as an employee of the Ryazan riot police, and his stories and novels represented the “boy” prose about the life and morals of the common people. Many of them were based on their own biography.
Here are some of them: the novel “Pathology”-about the Chechen war, which the author saw with his own eyes the novel “Sankya”, with which Prilepin burst into great literature-about the everyday life of a young revolutionary radical. This was once Prilepin himself, a member of the National-Bolshevik movement of Eduard Limonov, the novel “Sin”-a truthful bestseller about how the ordinary provincial guy “The abode” is growing up and facing his life-about how the same simple guy tries to survive in the Solovetsky camp in X and what transactions with the conscience were 9.
Later, she received the translation and later translator. Literary education and for many years was the editor of the XXL male magazine. And after its closure, she began to write books, and today it can be considered a successor to the tradition of a great Russian novel. The features of solid classical prose can be observed in many of her works, for example: in the novel “Surgeon”, where she described her medical experience and where two parallel and fancifully connected stories of the modern plastic surgeon and the Persian dictator of the XI century in the novel “Women of Lazarus” are told the history of the genius of Lazar Lindt through the memories of three women from different generations, whom he is He loved in the novel “The Garden”, which transfers the reader to the XIX century with the almost Turgenev heroine, it is very free and independent of it, as the policy and the ruling regime are especially totalitarian on the fate of man.
Ulitskaya literally promotes humanistic values and love. The writer announced that they should no longer expect big novels from her, but readers hope at least for a collection of stories, but for now they re -read the most important of the emerging earlier: “Green Tric” - a bright canvas, a cut of Soviet society - with dissidents, samizdat and absurdity of the bureaucratic machine, which prevents thinking people from working and living “Daniel Stein” - a novel based on the real story of the Polish The Jew, who served in the Gestapo and saved people, and then became a Catholic priest in Israel.
The book is an attempt to reconcile Christianity, Islam and Judaism “Jacob's Staircase” - a novel, where Ulitskaya boldly discovered the story of her grandfather, the past camp.