Walk fearlessly. Between literature and life
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Walk fearlessly. Between literature and life
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Yevgeny Vodolazkin is the author of the novels "Lavr", "The Aviator", "Solovyov and Larionov", "Brisbane", winner of the "Big Book", "Yasnaya Polyana" and "Book of the Year" awards. His books have been translated into many languages.
In the new book "Going unabashedly" the author himself comes to the fore. "A small personal Paradise of childhood", the history of the family, native St. Petersburg and Kiev, Pushkin House and the pursuit of science, the transition from philologist-medievalist to writer, first told the details of the creation of "Laurel", "Aviator", "Brisbane" ....
In a frank and confidential conversation with the reader, the trademark magic of the text remains unchanged: Vodolazkin himself now joins Arseniy Lavr, the aviator Platonov and the virtuoso Gleb Yanovsky.
"The vocation of a writer is to be a saucer at a séance: to spin in the center of the table and make texts out of letters.
Writing is essentially naming. Assigning words to that which excited but remained nameless - whether it was the salty fragility of skin after the beach, or the airing (frosty haze in the vent) of a hospital room. The first writer was Adam, to whom God gave the right to name the animals around him. By naming the animals, Adam took them from the singular to the common - and made them the property of all.
The business of the writer is to catch the music of the spheres and translate it into notes. To be, if you will, "the best akyn of the steppe": to sing about what he sees. Which, I emphasize, is seen by all those who live there. And he is the only one who sings, because he is able to turn the steppe into a text".
Yevgeny Vodolazkin
In the new book "Going unabashedly" the author himself comes to the fore. "A small personal Paradise of childhood", the history of the family, native St. Petersburg and Kiev, Pushkin House and the pursuit of science, the transition from philologist-medievalist to writer, first told the details of the creation of "Laurel", "Aviator", "Brisbane" ....
In a frank and confidential conversation with the reader, the trademark magic of the text remains unchanged: Vodolazkin himself now joins Arseniy Lavr, the aviator Platonov and the virtuoso Gleb Yanovsky.
"The vocation of a writer is to be a saucer at a séance: to spin in the center of the table and make texts out of letters.
Writing is essentially naming. Assigning words to that which excited but remained nameless - whether it was the salty fragility of skin after the beach, or the airing (frosty haze in the vent) of a hospital room. The first writer was Adam, to whom God gave the right to name the animals around him. By naming the animals, Adam took them from the singular to the common - and made them the property of all.
The business of the writer is to catch the music of the spheres and translate it into notes. To be, if you will, "the best akyn of the steppe": to sing about what he sees. Which, I emphasize, is seen by all those who live there. And he is the only one who sings, because he is able to turn the steppe into a text".
Yevgeny Vodolazkin
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series New Russian classics