Justification of the Island
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Justification of the Island
14.99 €
The action of Yevgeny Vodolazkin's new novel is set on an island that is not on the map, but its existence is beyond doubt. It is not found in history textbooks, and the events - recognizable to the point of pain. The Middle Ages are intertwined with modernity, the universal with the personal, and tragedy with the grotesque. Here lightest princes and chairmen of the Island, chroniclers and prophets, the lord of bees and a talking cat easily neighbor. According to an ancient prediction, great trials await the Island. Will it be able to pass them when the ground begins to fall away from under its feet?...?
"While working on the novel Laurel, I was a healer, a yurod, a pilgrim and a monk. Now, a decade later, dared to become a chronicler - and felt how great is the burden of responsibility of one who captures the past. History is one of the names of experience. In the end, what remains of life is history. The novel The Justification of the Island is, understandably, about only a part of the land, but, like a drop of water, it reflects much more..." Yevgeny Vodolazkin - Conversation with Him is an attempt to justify The Island, isn't it? - Leclerc stands up. - If you don't mind, I'll make the conversation the final scene. Parthenius looks at the director attentively. - Yes, this scene could well be the final scene.
"While working on the novel Laurel, I was a healer, a yurod, a pilgrim and a monk. Now, a decade later, dared to become a chronicler - and felt how great is the burden of responsibility of one who captures the past. History is one of the names of experience. In the end, what remains of life is history. The novel The Justification of the Island is, understandably, about only a part of the land, but, like a drop of water, it reflects much more..." Yevgeny Vodolazkin - Conversation with Him is an attempt to justify The Island, isn't it? - Leclerc stands up. - If you don't mind, I'll make the conversation the final scene. Parthenius looks at the director attentively. - Yes, this scene could well be the final scene.
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