Don't hope to get rid of books (Umberto Eco)
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Librarian

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Librarian
14.99 €
Mikhail Elizarov is the author of the novels "Earth", "Pasternak" and "Cartoons" (shortlisted for the National Bestseller Award), short story collections "Nails" (shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Award), "We Went Out for a Smoke for 17 Years" (the reader's vote prize of the NOS Award).

"The Librarian" - a novel that won the "Russian Booker" award and generated scandals and discussions in society; a novel about sacred texts - but without the "book dust" of Borges and Eco: books are used here for their direct archetypal purpose - framed in metal, they crush weak skulls, break fates, call for a bonfire and invade the fabric of the universe.
...The dullest production novels of the forgotten Soviet writer Gromov, years after his death, reveal magical properties: each is capable of endowing the reader with supernatural powers. Not only the text is important, but also the printing ink and paper; several sects of bibliophiles are hunting for the rarities, for the right to read the Book one has to fight with an axe in his hand....

"Elizarov and Sorokin work on the same material, but Sorokin consciously travesties and parodies this material (in the spirit of socialist art), while Elizarov takes it completely seriously" (Viktor Toporov).
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