Maxim and Fyodor. Selected Works
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Maxim and Fyodor. Selected Works
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Vladimir Nikolaevich Shinkarev is a St. Petersburg artist and writer, co-founder of the creative group "Mitki", and ideologist of the Mitki movement.
"Maxim and Fyodor" is one of the most famous samizdat works of the 1970s and 1980s, which has become a source of quotations, like "The Twelve Chairs" or "Operation Y". The extraordinary lightness, irony and, at the same time, genuine depth have made this text a national favorite for a wide range of generations.
Maxim and Fyodor are friends, "complete opposites", as Maxim himself likes to emphasize, spontaneous philosophers ("Maxim often said: "Similar things are not the same!"). No less important characters here, along with Maxim and Fyodor (and company), are time and everyday life - very recognizable details of the late Soviet everyday life are woven into the universal macrocosm of human life. Maxim and Fyodor, as well as their student Pyotr, are also universal heroes — heroes of the Petersburg text, which in Shinkarev is devoid of its characteristic sinisterness, but retains a magical dimension. They master Zen Buddhism and, if rumors are to be believed, travel to Japan; they prefer port wine to vermouth and, having overcome all conceivable and inconceivable difficulties, finally reach Tsarskoye Selo; they live their lives unhurriedly, finding charm in the most ordinary things, and this quality of theirs infects the reader.
This edition includes the main literary works of Vladimir Shinkarev: "Maxim and Fyodor", "A Papuan from Honduras", "The Domestic Hedgehog", "World Literature" — essays accompanying the pictures about sixteen great works (from "The Iliad" to "Crime and Punishment"), illustrations to the texts.
"Maxim and Fyodor" is one of the most famous samizdat works of the 1970s and 1980s, which has become a source of quotations, like "The Twelve Chairs" or "Operation Y". The extraordinary lightness, irony and, at the same time, genuine depth have made this text a national favorite for a wide range of generations.
Maxim and Fyodor are friends, "complete opposites", as Maxim himself likes to emphasize, spontaneous philosophers ("Maxim often said: "Similar things are not the same!"). No less important characters here, along with Maxim and Fyodor (and company), are time and everyday life - very recognizable details of the late Soviet everyday life are woven into the universal macrocosm of human life. Maxim and Fyodor, as well as their student Pyotr, are also universal heroes — heroes of the Petersburg text, which in Shinkarev is devoid of its characteristic sinisterness, but retains a magical dimension. They master Zen Buddhism and, if rumors are to be believed, travel to Japan; they prefer port wine to vermouth and, having overcome all conceivable and inconceivable difficulties, finally reach Tsarskoye Selo; they live their lives unhurriedly, finding charm in the most ordinary things, and this quality of theirs infects the reader.
This edition includes the main literary works of Vladimir Shinkarev: "Maxim and Fyodor", "A Papuan from Honduras", "The Domestic Hedgehog", "World Literature" — essays accompanying the pictures about sixteen great works (from "The Iliad" to "Crime and Punishment"), illustrations to the texts.
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series ABC. Voices