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Among the contenders are “Mazepa’s Shadow” by Sergei Belyakov, “Lives of Murdered Artists” by Alexander Brener, “Motherland” by Elena Dolgopyat, “F20” by Anna Kozlova, “Patriot” by Andrei Rubanov, “Tadpole and the Saints” by Andrei Filimonov and “This Country” by Figlya- Miglia.

While the results are not summed up, let us remember the 10 most remarkable authors who in different years became laureates of this prestigious award.

Leonid Yuzefovich

The famous Russian writer was awarded the prize twice. For the first time in the year of the establishment of “Natsbest” (in 2001) for the book “Prince of the Wind”.

He received the award for the second time 15 years later for the documentary novel “Winter Road.” The book tells the story of a forgotten episode of the Russian Civil War, when white general Anatoly Pepelyaev and anarchist Ivan Stroda fought in Yakutia for the last piece of land controlled by the Whites.

Dmitry Bykov

Like Leonid Yuzefovich, Dmitry Bykov twice became a laureate of the National Best. In 2011, he received it for the novel “Ostromov, or the Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” And earlier, in 2006, for the biography of Boris Pasternak in the series “ZhZL”.

Both times, Bykov’s victory caused dissatisfaction among some members of the organizing committee, who believed that the writer “has already established himself as a celebrity, he is loved and read by everyone,” and the goal of the prize is to reveal the unrealized potential of beginning authors. “And it’s all the more pleasant to win when the organizing committee doesn’t want it so much,” said Dmitry Lvovich.

Victor Pelevin

The most mysterious modern Russian writer received “Natsbest” for the novel “DPP. NN." This year, Pelevin was also nominated for it with the novel “The Lamp of Methuselah, or the Final Battle of the Chekists with the Freemasons.”

However, the book was not included in the shortlist and dropped out of the literary race. But the novel may well receive the Big Book Award. The master's chances are quite high.

When Mikhail Shishkin’s novel “Venus’s Hair” received the National Best Award in 2005, many began to say that this is what a real bestseller should be.

Zakhar Prilepin

Zakhar Prilepin was repeatedly called “writer of the year” along with Boris Akunin and Viktor Pelevin, and his mentions in the media were several times ahead of even Lyudmila Ulitskaya.

The above-mentioned Dmitry Bykov called this collection a modern “Hero of our time” for “the continuation of the best trends of Soviet society, with a focus on culture, education, and love of life.”

Alexander Terekhov

The winner of 2011 was Alexander Terekhov with his novel “The Germans” about the life of capital officials.

After his victory, Zakhar Prilepin admitted that he considers Terekhov a true classic of Russian literature along with Nabokov. After the book was released, many expected its speedy film adaptation.

In the story, the main character heads the press center of the Moscow prefecture and is torn between problems at work and at home. The book was so masterfully written that even at the manuscript stage it was included in the list of contenders.

Andrey Gelasimov

Prose writer and screenwriter Andrei Gelasimov became known to Russian readers after the publication of his story “Fox Mulder is like a pig” almost 16 years ago. Since then, he has published many excellent novels, novellas and short stories.

But Gelasimov’s main book triumph is “Natsbest” for the novel “Steppe Gods,” a book about a captive Japanese who lives in Russia and writes memoirs for his relatives in Nagasaki.

The idea came to the writer after a personal tragedy, when he wrote letters to his mother from Moscow to Irkutsk, not being able to see each other, “show his grandchildren.”

The writer admits that over the long years of separation he forgot what his own mother looked like. This tragedy formed the basis of “Steppe Gods”.

Ilya Boyashov

“Muri's Way” by Ilya Boyashov is a story about a cat walking across Europe in search of lost well-being: an armchair, a blanket and a bowl of milk.

Witty, light philosophy and love for cats did their job, and in 2007 the book was awarded the National Best.

Alexander Prokhanov

The novel "Mr. Hexogen" tells the story of the tragic events of 1999, in particular, a series of explosions of residential buildings.

The book was published three years after the terrorist attacks and the start of the Second Chechen Campaign and immediately caused heated discussions among journalists, critics and ordinary readers.

One way or another, Prokhanov became a laureate of the National Best. He handed over his cash prize to the notorious Eduard Limonov, calling him “an artist on a leash, whom it is impossible to be indifferent to.”

Sergey Nosov

St. Petersburg writer Sergei Nosov became a National Best winner in 2015 for his novel Curly Brackets.

According to the author, the book is written in the style of “magical realism”, in which the main character, a mathematician-mentalist, is forced to investigate the death of his friend, who in recent years has shared his body with another person lodged in it.

In the notebook of the deceased, the thoughts of the “settled person” were highlighted with curly brackets - which gave the name to the work.

On June 3, the results of the National Bestseller literary award will be announced. This year, not six, but seven books are vying for the title of the main novel of the year, including “Mazepa’s Shadow” by Sergei Belyakov, “Lives of Murdered Artists” by Alexander Brener, “Motherland” by Elena Dolgopyat, “F20” by Anna Kozlova, “Patriot” Andrei Rubanov, “Tadpole and the Saints” by Andrei Filimonov and “This Country” by Figl-Migl.

While the results are not summed up, let us remember the 10 most remarkable authors who in different years became laureates of this prestigious award.

Leonid Yuzefovich

The famous Russian writer was awarded the prize twice. For the first time in the year of the establishment of “Natsbest” (in 2001) for the book “Prince of the Wind”. He received the award for the second time 15 years later for his nonfiction novel. The book tells the story of a forgotten episode of the Russian Civil War, when white general Anatoly Pepelyaev and anarchist Ivan Stroda fought in Yakutia for the last piece of land controlled by the Whites.

Like Leonid Yuzefovich, Dmitry Bykov twice became a laureate of the National Best. In 2011, he received it for the novel Ostromov, or the Sorcerer's Apprentice. And earlier, in 2006, for the biography of Boris Pasternak in the series “ZhZL”. Both times, Bykov’s victory caused dissatisfaction among some members of the organizing committee, who believed that the writer “has already established himself as a celebrity, he is loved and read by everyone,” and the goal of the prize is to reveal the unrealized potential of beginning authors. “And it’s all the more pleasant to win when the organizing committee doesn’t want it so much,” said Dmitry Lvovich.

The most mysterious modern Russian writer received “Natsbest” for his novel. This year Pelevin was also nominated for it with a novel. However, the book was not included in the shortlist and dropped out of the literary race. But the novel may well receive an award. The master's chances are quite high.

After his victory, Zakhar Prilepin admitted that he considers Terekhov a true classic of Russian literature along with Nabokov. After the book was released, many expected its speedy film adaptation. In the story, the main character heads the press center of the Moscow prefecture and is torn between problems at work and at home. The book was so masterfully written that even at the manuscript stage it was included in the list of contenders.

Prose writer and screenwriter Andrei Gelasimov became known to Russian readers after the publication of his story “Fox Mulder is like a pig” almost 16 years ago. Since then, he has published many excellent novels, novellas and short stories. But Gelasimov’s main book triumph is “Natsbest” for the novel, a book about a captive Japanese who lives in Russia and writes memoirs for his relatives in Nagasaki. The idea came to the writer after a personal tragedy, when he wrote letters to his mother from Moscow to Irkutsk, not being able to see each other, “show his grandchildren.” The writer admits that over the long years of separation he forgot what his own mother looked like. This tragedy formed the basis of “Steppe Gods”.

Ilya Boyashov

Ilya Boyashov is a story about a cat walking across Europe in search of his lost well-being: an armchair, a blanket and a bowl of milk. Witty, light philosophy and love for cats did their job, and in 2007 the book was awarded the National Best.

The novel "Mr. Hexogen" tells the story of the tragic events of 1999, in particular, a series of explosions of residential buildings. The book was published three years after the terrorist attacks and the start of the Second Chechen Campaign and immediately caused heated discussions among journalists, critics and ordinary readers.

Some accused the author of distorting real facts, and others of excessive paranoia and excessive enthusiasm for conspiracy theories. The writer himself stated that he was trying to explore “myths that have become entrenched in the consciousness of society.” One way or another, Prokhanov became a laureate of the National Best. He handed over his cash prize to the notorious Eduard Limonov, calling him “an artist on a leash, whom it is impossible to be indifferent to.”

Sergey Nosov

St. Petersburg writer Sergei Nosov became a National Best winner in 2015 for his novel Curly Brackets. According to the author, the book is written in the style of “magical realism”, in which the main character, a mathematician-mentalist, is forced to investigate the death of his friend, who in recent years has shared his body with another person lodged in it. In the notebook of the deceased, the thoughts of the “settled person” were highlighted with curly brackets - which gave the name to the work.

On May 26, on the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, the author of the winning novel of the National Bestseller 2018 literary award was chosen and named. It was the novel by a writer from Yekaterinburg, Alexei Salnikov, “The Petrovs in the Flu and Around It.”

I think this is not the first person who stands on this stage and thinks about closing the mortgage with Natsbest. I think it turned out great. I would also like to say how pleasantly surprised I was at how each reader, if not every one, then many, are able to forgive the text for many of the shortcomings that are usually present in large texts. Just for the fact that the text does not look at the reader from some kind of pedestal, but simply for some more or less approving view of everyday life, the winner spoke from the stage.

The following works competed for the title of national bestseller:

- “Honey, I’m home” by Dmitry Petrovsky;

- “Look at him” by Anna Starobinets;

- “If only there was a daughter Anastasia” by Vasily Aksenov;

- “Petrovs in and around the flu” by Alexey Salnikov;

- “Bitch” by Maria Labych.

The Small Jury of the competition included professor of Sorbonne University (France) Hélène Melat, 2017 prize winner writer Anna Kozlova, rapper Husky, businessman Artem Obolensky, artist Tatyana Akhmetgalieva and editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station Alexey Venediktov.

According to open sources, Alexey Salnikov has lived in Yekaterinburg since 2005. Born in 1978 in Tartu, Estonia, since 1984 he has lived in the Urals. It is known that Salnikov studied 2 years at the Agricultural Academy, one semester at the Faculty of Literary Creativity of the Ural University with Yuri Kazarin, and was a student of the writer and teacher Evgeniy Turenko. The novel about the poetry of everyday life, “The Petrovs in the Flu and Around It,” was awarded the prize of the critical jury of the NOS literary prize.

REFERENCE

The National Bestseller Award has been awarded since 2001. The large list of authors includes more than 60 works, from which five are shortlisted. The winner will receive 1 million rubles, the remaining finalists will receive 60 thousand rubles each.

You can watch the selection and award ceremony at link.

HAVE OPINIONS

Broken mirror

Column by the writer, editor-in-chief of the Roman-Gazeta magazine Yuri Kozlov

Using state (or equivalent to such) literary awards, one can study an era and draw conclusions about the state of society - determine the strength of its muscles, the vivacity of the imagination, the degree of readiness to defend one’s ideals and one’s understanding of the future. A unique phenomenon in Russian (Soviet) culture were the Stalin Prizes in the field of literature and art, which lasted ()

Modern prose instead of dusty volumes

Column by "VM" columnist Nikita Mironov

There are more new items in the capital's libraries. In January, more than 40 books by laureates and finalists of national literary awards appeared here. Among the new books are the novels F20 by Anna Kozlova (winner of the “National Bestseller - 2017”), “The Secret Year” by Mikhail Gigolashvili (winner of the “Russian Prize - 2016” in the category “Major Prose”), “Lenin. Pantocrator of solar motes" by Lev Danilkin (winner of the "Big Book - 2017") and many others. Total circulation of new products (

"Mr. Hexogen"

Winner of the 2002 National Bestseller Award

The last years of the past century are full of tragic events, among which the Chechen campaign stands out as a bloody line. Retired foreign intelligence general Viktor Beloseltsev finds himself drawn into a political war, the flame of which is diligently supported by former Soviet intelligence officers and Chechen militants. Promoting their man to the pinnacle of power, the Conspirators use murders, Kremlin intrigues, house explosions, provocations, etc. Herculean efforts are required from General Beloseltsev in order to somehow influence the development of events. His view of the events of recent Russian history is sometimes shocking in its unexpectedness, but this makes the book bright, interesting and fascinating.

The novel caused a strong reaction from politicians, critics, and the public. Moreover, the opinions are diametrically opposed. As Nemtsov said, “this is not literature at all, not art, but some kind of crazy fabrications,” noting that, in his opinion, “many scenes and descriptions of recognizable people are not just indecent, but immoral.” In turn, Gennady Zyuganov said that Prokhanov’s books “reveal the essence of the tragedy that happened to the country. In the novel “Mr. Hexogen” this dramatic change is conveyed most convincingly and vividly. Any serious person who thinks about the fate of the country should read the book."

Critic Lev Pirogov called the novel “a delightful text,” noting the political relevance of the work. Ivan Kulikov characterizes the novel as “the most advanced cyberpunk of 500 percent quality.” Mikhail Trofimenkov, a member of the jury for the National Bestseller Award, praised the novel as “a bright event, such a crazy and crazy book.”

S. Chuprinin wrote with regret in the Znamya magazine that the novel did not become “a formidable indictment addressed to the FSB, the authorities, and the entire Putin regime.” On the contrary, according to the author, the hypothesis about the involvement of special services in the explosions of residential buildings was discredited and rendered harmless, which he regarded as “an exceptional victory for the current government in its intentions.” An extremely negative article was published by Rossiyskaya Gazeta, calling Prokhanov an anti-Semite and an “odious publicist.”

Reviews

Guest: H.F.

Wonderful book! Mainly due to the fact that the author is unusually perspicacious and understands perfectly what is really happening in the country. Of course, he combines communism, nationalism, Orthodoxy, and monarchism in a very strange way, which is somewhat annoying, but this is not nonsense at all, but the personal sympathies of Prokhanov himself, which is forgivable considering the era of his youth. Perhaps the style of presentation itself looks somewhat unusual, somewhat classical (in the spirit of simplified Tolstoy and Dostoevsky), while countercultural books are more commonly read in a different, more raw and harsh style, as is usually the case. Again, age... But these are trifles. The main thing is the plot. The book is undoubtedly exclusively fictional, and intersects with reality only in places (how often - who knows?), However, for any truly intelligent person it will be useful as a pointer in which direction to look (if there is still vision left).

Tryn_Grass

The book is great. The visionary author does not impose anything, unlike many, he only describes. It’s just that the odiousness of the figure interferes with unclouded, literally, perception. Well, the style is lame in places, but who has it even impeccable?

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov

(02/26/1938, Tbilisi)

Alexander Andreevich Prokhanov was born on February 26, 1938 in Tbilisi. In 1960 he graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute and worked as an engineer at a research institute. In my last year at university I began writing poetry and prose. In 1962-1964 he worked as a forester in Karelia, took tourists to the Khibiny Mountains, and took part in a geological party in Tuva.

Since 1970, he worked as a correspondent for the newspapers Pravda and Literaturnaya Gazeta in Afghanistan, Nicaragua, Cambodia, Angola and other places. In 1971 he published his first artistic and journalistic books: “I’m going on my way” and “Letters about the village.” In 1972, Prokhanov became a member of the USSR Writers' Union.

From 1989 to 1991, Prokhanov worked as editor-in-chief of the Soviet Literature magazine. In December 1990, he created his own newspaper, Den. In 1991, during the presidential elections of the RSFSR, Prokhanov was a confidant of the candidate General Albert Makashov. During the August putsch, Prokhanov supported the State Emergency Committee.

In September 1993, he spoke out in his newspaper against Yeltsin’s actions, calling them a coup d’etat, and supported the Supreme Council. After the tank shooting of parliament, the newspaper Den was banned by the Ministry of Justice. The newspaper's editorial office was destroyed by riot police, property and archives were destroyed.

In November 1993, Prokhanov registered a new newspaper, “Zavtra,” and became its editor-in-chief. In the 1996 presidential elections, Prokhanov supported the candidacy of the Communist Party candidate Gennady Zyuganov, and in 1997 he became a co-founder of the Patriotic Information Agency.

He is interested in drawing in the style of primitivism. Collects moths. Married, has two sons and a daughter.

Major works

• 1971 — “I’m going on my way,” “Letters about the village"
• 1972 — "Burning Color"
• 1974 — “The Grass Turns Yellow”
• 1975 - "In Your Name", "Reflections of Mangazeya"
• 1976 — “Nomadic Rose”
• 1977 — “It’s Noon”
• 1980 — "Location"
• 1981 — “The Eternal City”
• 1982 - "Tree in the center of Kabul"
• 1984 - “There is a hunter in the islands”, “Burning Gardens", "Yade ry shield
• 1985 — “And Here Comes the Wind”
• 1985 - "On the distant frontiers", " Lighter than azure"
• 1988 — “There in Afghanistan”
• 1989 - "Drawings of a battle artist", "Notes on the armor", "600 years after the battle"
• 1993 — “The Last Soldier of the Empire”
• 1994 — “An angel flew by”
• 1995 — "Palace"
• 1998 — “Chechen Blues”
• 1999 — “Red-Brown”
• 2002 - "Africanist", "Mr. Hexogen"
• 2004 - "Cruising Sonata", "Chronicle of diving time" (collection of editorials from the newspaper "Zavtra")
• 2005 — “Inscription”, “Political scientist”
• 2006 - "The Gray Soldier", "Motor ship "Joseph Brodsky"Symphony of the Fifth Empire
• 2007 — “Behind the fence of Rublyovka”, “ Fifth Empire", "Friend or Foe"
• 2008 — "Hill"
• 2009 — “Virtuoso”
• 2010 — "Eye"

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Garros-Evdokimov

"[puzzle"

winner of the 2003 National Bestseller Award

What is this: the story of how a small bank PR manager turns into a ruthless superman? Or is it a story of ordinary madness? Or - the story of the end of the world coming for one individual person? Or - the Russian-language version of “Fight Club” and “American Psycho”? Or maybe a retelling of a fashionable computer game? This is a head-scratcher: a shocking literary provocation, tightly tied to a tough thriller plot.

From reviews and reviews

For several days I went around telling everyone that Garros-Evdokimov was the best thing that happened in the “youth line” of Russian literature after Pelevin... This is “Brother-2” for sane clerks from good families, half-crushed by the caterpillars of consumer society... In "[ puzzle" suddenly a lot of things came together that I had long wanted to see in modern Russian literature: plot, language, hero, narrative intonation. This is an upgraded version of Pelevin's "Prince of Gosplan"; it's a technical post-cyberpunk thriller; it's a vicious, off-the-leash, bulldog social satire; this is a good story about a default in the head... This is the best debut in the last ten years for sure. I certainly give him the most positive recommendation. These Riga people can have a very bright future.

Lev Danilkin

A brilliant example of new prose. The abstract doesn't lie, comparing Garros and Evdokimov to Chuck Palahniuk and Bret Easton Ellis. Garros and Evdokimov do not imitate them, but work as equals, although their book has both the savage excitement of “Fight Club” and the tangible horror of an expensive store catalog, where things are splattered with blood - a la “American Psycho”. This is a rare case when the radicalism of the (relatively speaking anti-globalist) view of the world is adequate to the radicalism of working with language. “[puzzle]breaker” is an example of not only social, but also linguistic protest. One of the main literary events of this year.

Mikhail Trofimenkov

An excellent Christmas thriller, the best I've read in modern literature.

Sergei Shnurovhttp://www.club366.ru/books/html/golov1.shtml

This book, signed with the double surname Garros-Evdokimov, quite Bulgakovian in taste, does not captivate, does not draw in, does not enchant. It “leads” like 0.5 gin and tonic, drunk to improve mental health on an empty, untrained stomach. And every “clerk” suddenly seems like a murderer.

Polina Kopylova, PETERbook

The book is in the libraries:

About the authors

Alexander Garros and Alexey Evdokimov

- Riga journalists, authors of several novels in which tough social journalism is combined with a dashingly twisted plot. Both were born in 1975. We met in the eighth grade of high school, coming from two different schools to one. At first they were just friends, then periodically they began to write together for the newspaper, and then they decided to try it with books. We worked for the Russian-language Riga newspaper “Chas”. Alexander Garros now lives in Moscow, works at Novaya Gazeta. Alexey Evdokimov is still a resident of Riga.

Their debut novel, Puzzle, won the National Bestseller Award, beating out venerable competitors. Subsequent books - "Grey Slime", "The Truck Factor", "Juche" - proved that Garros and Evdokimov were not only "the heirs of the Strugatskys and Pelevin", as many considered them, but absolutely original authors who knew how to combine a tough social context with a sophisticated " thriller plot.

Critics defined the novel “Grey Slime” as an “ideological thriller.” "Juche", a collection of three detective stories based entirely on topical Russian realities. Here mysticism meets politics, intrigue is unpredictable, and the diagnosis of society is merciless. “The Truck Factor” is an excellent thriller, rapidly gaining momentum and eventually developing from a detective “quest” with mysterious deaths and creepy coincidences into energetic action.

Critics' opinion:

There is no doubt that of the entire current generation of 30-year-olds, it is this couple of smiling psychopaths who write the toughest and brightest prose, the most topical, completely devoid of liberal snot and pseudo-intellectual show-off.

In their works there is no place for the whining and downtrodden intellectual - the main character of Russian literature of the last half century. Garros-Evdokimov is not offering a way out, but they are not burying their heads in the sand either. They are not politically engaged and do not belong to any parties. In their hands only a paper-based virtual news report and a virtual, but by no means harmless, pistol.

The hero of Garros-Evdokimov is an average person, an ordinary person, a manager, unable to piece together the puzzle of the surrounding reality. Talk about tolerance and humanism makes him sick; corporations are turning him into a zombie. You can not give a damn about everything and collect liquid crystal toothpicks with rhinestones and be a dead, but most sophisticated dandy, you can go on a super difficult mountaineering route. But this does not save: the oppressive, identical emptiness everywhere and in everything leads to murder and suicide. Virtual, real, anyone.

The fundamental difference between Garros-Evdokimov and other Russian writers lies in the fact that, while describing Russian realities, they fundamentally abandon the Russian literary tradition. The origins of their texts are in American brutal cinema and literature.

Victor Pelevin

"DPP (NN)"

winner of the 2004 National Bestseller Award

Title of the novel “DPP (NN)” stands for “Dialectics of the transitional period from nowhere to nowhere.” At the center of the book is the novel “Numbers” in a necklace of stories, a novella and even a poetic fragment that acts as a kind of epigraph.

Lev Danilkin about the novel:

The main character of the novel “DPP” is the banker Styopa, who builds his entire life as a service to the number 34; He is also afraid of the number 43. As an adult, Styopa learns that he is the Pokemon Pikachu, and discovers the I Ching, the fortune-telling Book of Changes. When Putin's times come, Styopa meets another banker named Srakandaev (also a Pokemon in some way), a homosexual who honors the number 43; a conflict arises between them - this is what “Numbers” is about. In the story “Macedonian Criticism of French Philosophy” it turns out that the real owner of the Stepinoy and Srakandaevsky banks was the wealthy Tatar intellectual Kika, who discovered the formula of the Sulfur Factor and found out the true essence of Derrida, Baudrillard and Houellebecq. This is followed by five more stories, including “Akiko” (which was posted on the Internet ten days before the novel’s release) and the miniature “One Vogue.”

There is no doubt - Pelevin wrote a sharply satirical novel: he jokes a lot, talks about the FSB, the Chechen roof, Berezovsky, the advertising business, glamor, literary critics, parodies political television debates, etc. The characters, as always, are obsessed with Eastern philosophy - Buddha, emptiness, satori. Unexpectedly, a lot of space is devoted to homosexual relationships. The dialogues are typically Pelevin: the mentor sneers at the naive student; only this time these roles are sliding ones. The narrative is filled with ring-shaped, bold metaphors—these alone can feed the reader’s imagination for quite a long time.

I would call the plot of “DPP” highly unsatisfactory - it’s annoying that the change of events is not determined by logic, but by the manipulations that the hero performs with numbers: Styopa is going to kill Srakandaev not because he is somehow interfering with him, but because he represents the hated number 43. Fortunately, the plot of the novel is not limited to the Pokémon conflict. In addition to the obvious toy conflict, there is also a real one in the novel. “DPP” is actually a novel about a path: about the path of a banker, about the path of a samurai (hagakure), about the path of a consumer to his dreams, about the route of oil; finally, about the Way-Tao.

The real backbone of the novel is the original geopolitical theory of Tao, invented by Pelevin, which explains a lot, a lot; All. Why, with every barrel of Russian oil pumped, the Western world is not strengthened, but weakened. Why do the ghosts of millions of Stalinist prisoners with wheelbarrows walk along the streets of London, grinning evilly? How exactly does God send nations to x... Why are the words “Russia” and “Russian government” in Chinese written with four characters that literally mean “temporary administration of the northern pipe.” Finally, the most important thing becomes clear - why Putin, the secret agent of the Daoization of Russia and, indirectly, the West, has such a surname. Soon, very soon, “the teaching of Tao will finally come to the plains of Eurasia in full.” So here is Pelevin’s main prediction, made after explaining how everything is REALLY: next will be Tao for everyone. This can also be understood more or less literally, as geopolitical Taoism, Sinification; or it can be metaphorically, as finding the natural path, the course of things and the gradual calming down, dying of everything outside of this Path.

The book is in the libraries:

• Central City Library
• Family Reading Library
• City Library No. 1

Victor Olegovich Pelevin

(11/22/1962, Moscow)

The writer Victor Pelevin mystified the public for so long and skillfully that among his young fans there was even an opinion that the real Pelevin did not exist, and that novels under this name were written almost by a computer.

Victor Pelevin graduated from the Moscow Secondary English Special School No. 31 (now the Kaptsov Gymnasium No. 1520) in 1979. This school was located in the center of Moscow, on Stanislavsky Street (now Leontyevsky Lane), was considered prestigious, and Victor’s mother, Efremova Zinaida Semyonovna, worked there as a head teacher and English teacher. His father, Oleg Anatolyevich, also worked as a teacher - at the military department at Moscow State Technical University. Bauman.

In the summer of 1979, Pelevin entered the Moscow Energy Institute at the Faculty of Electrical Equipment and Automation of Industry and Transport. He graduated with honors in 1985 and on April 3 was “accepted as an engineer at the Department of Electric Transport.” In March 1987, he passed the exams for graduate school and began working on a project for an electric drive for a city trolleybus with an asynchronous motor. But he did not defend his dissertation.

Instead, in the summer of 1988, he applied for the correspondence department of the Literary Institute. He passed the written and oral exams in Russian language and literature with an “excellent” grade, the history of the USSR (orally) with an “5”, and the specialty and professional interview with a “4”. As a result, Pelevin found himself in a prose seminar by a fairly famous writer, the “soil writer” Mikhail Lobanov.

Since 1989, he began to collaborate with the magazine “Science and Religion”, to which he was brought by the fairly famous science fiction writer Eduard Gevorkyan. Moreover, as the editors recall, overcoming the jealousy characteristic of writers, he said that Pelevin would go far. In the December 1989 issue of the magazine, Pelevin’s story “The Sorcerer Ignat and the People” was published; and in the January 1990 issue there was a large article “Divination by Runes.”

On April 26, 1991, Pelevin was expelled from the Literary Institute. As written in order No. 559, “for separation from the institute.” It is not very clear what is hidden behind the bureaucratic term “separation”, since “physically” Pelevin’s life from the beginning of 1990 was connected precisely with the Literary Institute, where several rooms were rented by the newly created publishing house “Den”, in which the young writer began working as editor of the prose department .

In 1991, Pelevin, on the recommendation of prose writer Mikhail Umnov, came to the “thick” literary magazine “Znamya”. Victoria Shokhina worked there as the editor of the prose department: “He worked in the science fiction department at that time. He wanted to cross this line between entertainment and real prose. He could have had success, for example, like the Strugatsky brothers. But he wanted more, as I understand it, and he was right. And so Misha Umnov told him that there was an aunt who understood this, and he came to me and brought “Omon Ra” The story was published at the beginning of 1992, and at the end of the year “The Life of Insects” was published.

Pelevin's prose is characterized by the absence of the author's appeal to the reader through the work, in any traditional form, through content or artistic form. The author does not “want to say” anything, and all the meanings that the reader finds, he reads from the text on his own.

Viktor Pelevin is called the most famous and most mysterious writer of the “thirty-year-old generation.” The author himself is inclined to agree with this statement. Reality in his works is closely intertwined with phantasmagoria, times are mixed, the style is extremely dynamic, the semantic load with maximum intellectual richness does not at all overwhelm the reader. His prose is a successful combination of seemingly incompatible qualities: mass character and elitism, acute modernity and immersion in the realities of the past, always seen from a very eccentric angle of vision, as well as the ability to look into the future, which is no longer disputed. Apparently, all this is a component of the incredible success of his works

French Magazine included Viktor Pelevin in the list of 1000 most significant contemporary figures of world culture (Russia in this list, in addition to Pelevin, is also represented by film director Sokurov). At the end of 2009, according to a survey, he was recognized as the most influential intellectual in Russia.

Writer's website: http://pelevin.nov.ru/

Bibliography

• Blue lantern. - M.: Text, 1991. - 317 p.
• Tambourine of the Lower World. Works in two volumes. - M.: Terra - Book Club, 1996. - 852 p.
• Chapaev and Emptiness. - M.: Vagrius, 1996. - 397 p.
• Life of insects. - M.: Vagrius, 1997. - 350 p.
• Yellow arrow. - M.: Vagrius, 1998. - 430 p.
• Generation "P". - M.: Vagrius, 1999. - 302 p.
• Nika. - St. Petersburg: Zlatoust, 1999. - 55 p.
• The Recluse and the Six-Fingered One. - M.: Vagrius, 2001 - 224 p.
• Omon Ra. - M.: Vagrius, 2001. - 174 p.
• All stories. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 512 p.
• Built-in reminder. - M.: Vagrius, 2002. - 256 p.
• Crystal world. - M.: Vagrius, 2002. - 224 p.
• Dialectics of the Transition Period from Nowhere to Nowhere. - M.: Eksmo, 2003. - 384 p.
• Songs of the kingdom "I". - M.: Vagrius, 2003. - 896 p.
• The Holy Book of the Werewolf. - M.: Eksmo, 2004. - 381 p.
• Relics. Early and unreleased. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 351 p.
• All stories and essays. - M.: Eksmo, 2005. - 416 rubles.
• Helm of Terror. Creatiff about Theseus and the Minotaur. - M.: Open World, 2005. - 222 p.
• Empire "B". - M.: Eksmo, 2006. - 416 p.
• Numbers. - M.: Eksmo, 2006. - 320 p.
• The sorcerer Ignat and the people: stories and stories. - M.: Eksmo, 2008. &‐ 315 p.
• P5. : farewell songs of the political pygmies of Pindostan. - M.: Eksmo, 2008.- 288 p.
• T. - M.: Eksmo, 2009. - 382 p.

Mikhail Shishkin

"Venus hair"

winner of the 2005 National Bestseller Award

The main character of the book (as, by the way, the author himself) serves as a translator in a Swiss organization responsible for receiving refugees from the former USSR. From the polyphonic groan of this countless army of liars, sufferers and madmen, frantically trying to finally get out of the borders of their inhuman homeland and make their way to the Swiss paradise, Shishkin’s novel is woven. Scary and realistic stories about the lawlessness of the orphanage or the escape from Chechnya flow into phantom dreams or letters addressed to the “dear Nebuchadnosaurus”; through them grows a touching girl's diary of the singer Isabella Yurieva - and immediately slides head over heels into a semi-detective story about a stolen case. With amazing dexterity, Shishkin juggles elements of ancient myths and quotes from ancient authors, heart-warming family stories and post-Soviet horror stories.

From reviews and comments:

Critics of various directions and tastes suddenly agreed on one thing: from an ethical point of view, the novel is not good. Some accused Shishkin of narcissism and arrogance, others - that the author laments about snowy Russia while sitting on the shore of Lake Zurich. Meanwhile, I personally haven’t experienced such intense pleasure and delight from reading for I don’t remember how many years. Before us is a master of the level of Mikhail Bulgakov and Vladimir Nabokov. Anyone who opens the novel will be convinced that this is not an enthusiastic exaggeration.

Maya Kucherskaya, Rossiyskaya Gazeta

A wonderful, smart, tragic novel about life and living. A novel consisting of many novels that do not leave you indifferent, and the allusions are so modern that you forget that all this happened at the dawn of civilization. I read the reviews, it’s sad that people have forgotten how to read and understand books. I'm worried about Proust and Joyce.

Ekaterina Posetselskaya http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2416059/

I agree with those who consider this novel an outstanding event in Russian literature. I experienced great happiness as a reader when I was reading, and great grief when the book suddenly ended.

Olga Nikienko http://www.ozon.ru/context/detail/id/2416059/

The book is in the libraries:

• central city library
• city ​​children's and youth library
• family reading library
• city ​​libraries No. 1, 2
• Library named after L.A. Gladina

about the author

Mikhail Shishkin

(01/18/1961, Moscow)

Mikhail Shishkin is the only Russian writer to have received three major Russian literary awards: “Big Book”, “National Bestseller” and “Russian Booker”. Thanks to his bright and recognizable style, intense drama and professional implementation of literary ideas, Mikhail Shishkin is already being put on a par with Joyce, Nabokov, and Sasha Sokolov. The literary traditions of Western literature of the twentieth century and the humanism of Russian literature are organically embodied in the writer’s work.

As befits a “living classic,” Shishkin is focused on himself and unhurried, publishing one novel every 5 years - but every one is an event!

Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961. As he says in one of his interviews: “I studied at school No. 59 on Starokonyushenny Lane, where my mother taught and was the director. Graduated from the Romano-Germanic Faculty of the Lenin Pedagogical Institute. He worked as a journalist for the magazine "Rovesnik", a janitor, laid asphalt, and taught at school. I have been living in Switzerland since 1995. It turned out like this: in Moscow I met Francesca, a Slavist from Zurich. We got married and lived in a communal apartment on Chekhov Street. Then our son was supposed to be born. We moved to Switzerland. Now Konstantin is five years old. When Switzerland played football with Russia, I was rooting for Russia, and he was rooting for Switzerland. When our team won, he said: so what, I’m Russian too, that means we won. And he himself laughed at his win-win position. We live in Zurich, I earn money by translating and giving lessons.”

Shishkin made his debut as a prose writer in 1993, when he published the story “A Calligraphy Lesson” in the Znamya magazine. Since then, he has become a regular contributor to the magazine, in which the novel “One Night Awaits Everyone,” the story “The Blind Musician,” and the novel “The Taking of Ishmael” (1999) were first published. In 2005 The magazine also published the novel “Venus’ Hair,” which won the “National Bestseller” and “Big Book” awards.

He is also the author of the literary and historical guide “Russian Switzerland” and the book of essays “Montreux-Missolunghi-Astapovo: In the footsteps of Byron and Tolstoy”, which was published in 2005. was awarded in France the prize for the best foreign book of the year (in the Essay category).

Bibliography

• The Capture of Ishmael: A Novel. - SPb.: INAPRESS, 2000. - 440 p.
• One night awaits everyone: A novel, a story. &‐ M.: Vagrius, 2001 300 p.
• Venus' hair: a novel. - M.: Vagrius, 2005. - 478 p.
• Calligraphy lesson: Novel, stories. - M.: Vagrius, 2007. - 349 p.

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Ilya Boyashov

"The Way of Muri"

Winner of the 2007 National Bestseller Award

The story is about Muri - a young impudent cat from a Bosnian village, the “lord” of a man, a woman, two children, a garden, barns, a basement and a cowshed. However, his beautiful world collapses in an instant from bomb explosions, as the civil war of 1992 begins in Yugoslavia. And Muri begins his wanderings throughout Europe in search of escaped owners. Along the way he meets people, animals, birds, spirits who also wander around the world. In essence, this is a parable, a parable about searching, finding a way, finding yourself and your place in the world. At the same time, the book is light, elegant, without the tediousness that is sometimes characteristic of the parable genre.

At the award ceremony, Artemy Troitsky called this book “a combination of Lao Tzu and the classic Soviet story for children, Napoleon III.”

From reviews

BobberRU I didn’t want to pick up the book.... but I read it in one sitting! Here are the annotations for this book. “...this is just my path, you go your own way...” Read!

This book, generally speaking, is not a book about a cat. And at the same time, this is a book about the cat Muri. And also about all those who for some reason set off on a journey - an Arab sheikh obsessed with the dream of flying around the world, a giant whale constantly moving along its ocean roads, a disabled person climbing a steep cliff. About those who have a goal at the end of this path or not. After all, the path itself can also be a goal. And Muri has a couple of kind thoughts for every traveler, as well as a fair amount of contempt for everyone who decides to stay on their couch.

Masha Mukhina http://www.gogol.ru/literatura/recenzii/zhil_byl_kot/

Jonathan Livingston (I’m only talking about sensations, I’m not comparing in any way). Travels of the Bosnian cat. Kita. Goose. And others. The book is not exciting, but there are a lot of ideas formulated that you want to write down somewhere.

The book before us is light in all respects: smooth reading, clarity of the author's intention, and even its physical weight. Easy, but by no means stupid. It can be recommended to those who want to have a good time, but not to those who strive for serious, intelligent and topical reading. Maria Chepurina

The book is in the libraries:

Central City Library

Ilya Vladimirovich Boyashov

Ilya Vladimirovich Boyashov was born in 1961 in Leningrad. A historian by training, he graduated from the Leningrad Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen. He worked at the Central Naval Museum, taught history at the Nakhimov Naval School for 18 years, and is now the executive editor of the St. Petersburg publishing house "Amphora". The first book, a collection of short stories called Play Your Tune, was published in 1989. However, literary fame came to Boyashov almost twenty years later, when his novel “Muri’s Way” received the National Bestseller Award in 2007. In 2008, the writer again found himself on the crest of a premium wave: his novel “Tankman, or “White Tiger” reached the finals of the “Big Book” literary award. In this novel, the writer unexpectedly took a mystical approach to the traditional theme of the Great Patriotic War, showing the metaphysical confrontation between good and evil: our tanker Ivan Naydenov, having risen from the dead, fights an invulnerable German ghost tank.

"The Madman and His Sons";

"Who doesn't know Brer Rabbit"- a story from the 1990s, where a rascal nicknamed Rabbit drags a teacher into adventures, such as organizing a fist fighting school. As the author himself said: “This is actually my first book, which I conceived in the mid-1990s, but finished quite recently. It was then that I met several people who were extremely similar to Rabbit, and I had no choice but to mold them into one recognizable image of a Russian businessman of that time.”

"Armada" - a novel about how a certain state sent its fleet to the shores of America with the goal of its complete destruction. But when the ships were already on their way, a worldwide catastrophe occurred - the continents disappeared. The planet has turned into a continuous ocean. The sailors were left alone in the whole wide world. So what should the brave warriors do now?

"Konung"- about the childhood years of the semi-mythical founder of the Russian land Rurik. It turns out that even before he began to reign in Rus', his life was full of exciting adventures.

Bibliography:

• Play your tune. - L.: Lenizdat, 1989. - 171 p.
• The madman and his sons. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2002. - 336 p.
• Armada. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2007. - 272 p.
• Path of Muri. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2007. - 232 p.
• The story of a rogue and a monk. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2007.—232 p.
• Gentlemen officers. - St. Petersburg: Amphora, 2007. - 432 p.
• Tankman, or "White Tiger". - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2008. - 224 p.
• Konung. - St. Petersburg: Limbus Press, K. Tublin Publishing House, 2008. - 272 p.

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Zakhar Prilepin

"Sin"

Winner of the 2008 National Bestseller Award

We can say that Zakhar Prilepin appeared in literature in order to report on his extreme life experience: the war in Chechnya was reflected in “Pathologies”, the activities of the NBP - in “Sanka”. The third book - “Sin” - is a novel in stories and poems, and the main character in it is again he. He is a lovelorn teenager in the last summer of his childhood (“Sin”), he is a bouncer in a club (“Six Cigarettes and So On”), he is a gravedigger in a cemetery (“Wheels”), he is a tired Sergeant , saving his soldiers in Chechnya (“Sergeant”), he is also the father of two sons (“Nothing will happen”). There is almost no plot, but it is written in such a way that it touches the soul... As Alexandra Kulikova said: she could not believe that a person with such a hard face could write such tender prose. So Dmitry Bykov, who wrote the preface, writes that “this book contains invaluable vitamins, which are so few in current literature: courage, joy, vitality, tenderness. The book makes you want to live - not to vegetate, but to live to the fullest.”

From reviews

Prilepinsky bought "Sin" at a New Year's sale in St. Petersburg - he just saw the cover and remembered that he had already seen this brutal guy at a meeting of young writers with Putin. After rummaging through my memory, I remembered that he seems to be a National Bolshevik, and also that I read his articles in Ogonyok and I liked these articles. I bought the book and did not regret it. Excellent stories, lively, bright, juicy. The main character is written very nicely - without narcissism, without self-deprecation... And what is also captivating in the book is the feeling of happiness that is given to the main character. Somehow it happened that it’s easier to write (and read about) about breakdown, about pain, about failure. It’s not often that authors manage to convey this sunny, light feeling, this “holiday that is always with you,” without falling into leafiness and without seasoning the stories with molasses. On the contrary, this is the happiness that helps the hero feel like a human being in a variety of, sometimes terrible, circumstances. A rare gift of love of life. A talented, wonderful book. I recommend.

Over the weekend I read Zakhar Prilepin’s book “Sin”. I didn’t finish reading it, although I didn’t start it on the weekend, but much earlier. I stretch out the pleasure. I'll read a few pages. I'll go do something else. I feel that I will read endlessly, i.e. I'll finish reading it and start again.

It is an extraordinary rarity that a happy person is also mentally no vividly and accurately describe your feelings and the world around you.

Clear, concise and beautiful Russian language. A break from Albany.

I can't wait to say what surprised me in the book - the language surprised me! And it’s not that it’s very cool, and it doesn’t seem primitively simple, but it’s so entertaining! Nowadays, a vocabulary exceeding Ellochkin’s seems like an outlandish luxury. If I had a chance to meet this writer for a second time, I would certainly ask him about word creation. You read a sentence and realize that you yourself do not say such words, but you like them extremely. They are so Russian, round, appropriate. And it’s amazing - the meaning is clear to you and you even see what words this new word is made of and that makes you like it even more. All that remains is to find out, to my shame, that this word is hundreds of years old and that Russia, which is not a million-plus city, will not catch its eye on it, it is ordinary and familiar to it.

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I recommend it.

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