Announced the shortlist for the literary prize “Big book”, which included 13 nominees. Commenting on it, Chairman of the expert Council, the writer Mikhail Butov explained that this year the shortlist was formed as something in itself, “like a leaf on a tree or flower”, however, the dominant trend called “linguistic brutality,” it is difficult combined with such delicate imagery of flora. Commented Michael Trofimenkov.As for brutality, we can only envy Michael Butovo: obviously, he had never read long sheets at least another leading national lipemia “national bestseller”. That’s where the brutality, so brutality. By the way, this year short-listed for both awards crossed on two counts: way includes books by Mikhail Elizarova “Earth” and Sophia French song “Lights “of gemorah””. Both have in common of the prize and an abundance of works that can be attributed in the broadest sense of the word to “metaphysical” or “magical realism”. Well, or which claims, roughly speaking, in the genre of “adventure of ideas”. That is, suffering does not brutality, but rather painful intelligence.Alexey Makushinsky (“Suburbs of mind”) artless haunting the Paris suburbs, where once lodged the philosophers Nikolai Berdyaev and Jacques Maritain, telling them the thoughts that complements their like: “We are all made of contradictions (as we all have been already noticed)”.Hero verbose-colorful prose of Alexander Ilichevsky (the name “Newton Drawing” looks suspiciously like the titles of Robert Ludlum thrillers) wanders in search of a missing father, a Bohemian sladostrastnye, and along with “dark matter”, the meaning of life and of the temple of Solomon, between Nevada, the Pamirs and the Temple mount in Jerusalem. The hero is Evgeny Chizhov (“Collector’s Paradise”), for a change, looking for the missing mother, suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, and flea markets, where he is known by the nickname the King— the wreckage of the lost Soviet Paradise.Photo: Yury Martyanov, Commercantes interesting authors working at the interface between physics and metaphysics. Thick, really brutal black earth “Earth” Elizarova, absolutely convincing in what concerns plaguing bytya dashing diggers-the diggers, to the final suddenly falls in as convincing necromancy that mention Swedenborg and Heidegger. Photo: Alexander Koryak, Kommersanta in springy prose Xenia Bucchi (“Churov and chumps”) the hearts of two characters on the letter “H”, the school years, reducible and bred life, literally beating in unison. That allows them to do good deeds, rescuing the downtrodden compatriots.Of special note is the visionary prose of the St. Petersburg literary critic French song literally broke three years ago in the literary firmament. Inheriting surreal and SK��Savoy traditions of Russian literature, from Gogol to Remizov, it transforms into a tale about the wonders of the most brutal pages of the Soviet history: the assassination of Kirov, the camp of the 1930s, the siege of Leningrad, Pskov guerilla warfare. Creates a colorful world where the fate of Russia and the world solve not only the people, living and dead, but resurrected, and dolls from the booth, sphinxes, doves and wise, but resentful of the snake. Photo: personal page of Sophia Know in VKРяды authors who consider the USSR an earthly hell, meanwhile, is not thinning. The poet Timur Kibirov are heartbreaking novel about the Soviet General Bochica, after much anguish, released the daughter in the 1970-ies in Israel, for some reason, recounts in detail a long time ago the well-known correspondence of Mikhail Sholokhov and Stalin and that is sad, such an irresponsible source, as the brochure of Sergei Melgunov “Red terror in Russia”. Philologist Natalia Gromova has become famous in recent years several books on the history of Soviet literature, 1920-1940-ies, saturated very interesting documents, but not always accurate. Now in the book of memoirs “Through” she’s boring story about his Soviet childhood and even more anti-Soviet youth. Victory over a totalitarian monster in August 1991 marks — no, it’s not a parody, but seriously — joint with a certain Taras Preposto repairing the apartment of the author, sewing yellow-Blakytny prapor.Against this background, a breath of air seem unsophisticated boy stories “Get rid of her” Permyak Paul Selukova, carefully concealing their intelligence: some critics have compared his stories with good lyrics for “stand-up-Comedy” that does not hurt. And it is quite natural apart is the only non-fiction of Vasily Avchenko, excellent masters of nonfiction from Vladivostok, Nizhny Novgorod and philologist Alexey Korovushka “Oleg Kuvaev: a tale of the adhoc man.” This biography of geologist and religious writer 1960-1970-ies, who departed this life in the forty years of the author of the legendary novel “Territory”, whose fate, according to Avchenko and Karovska,— “down-to-earth in a good way option Gagarin’s destiny.”In the short-list also included a trilogy Dina Rubina “Napoleon train”, socio-critical novel “the Former Lenin’s” on burning in every sense of the word devoted to the fight against landfills Shamil Idiatullin, head of the regional Department of the “Kommersant”, another metaphysical novel by Gregory Aroseva and Eugene Remchukova “Division night”.
