Librarian
14.99 €
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Mikhail Elizarov - prose writer, musician, author of the novels "Earth" (National Bestseller Award), "Pasternak" and "Cartoons", collections "Nails" (shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Award), "We went out for a smoke for 17 years" (the prize of the readers' vote of the NOS Award), "Burattini", "Shells. Cubes."
"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 by the forgotten Soviet writer Gromov, years after his death, reveal magical properties: each one 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....
"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 by the forgotten Soviet writer Gromov, years after his death, reveal magical properties: each one 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....
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