Проснись!

Жанры

by Boris Akunin, Борис Акунин

Повесть о будущем человечества. Даже две повести или, если угодно, два сна: один сладостный, другой гадостный - утопия и дистопия.

146 pages, ebook

Published May 22, 2025

About the author

Real name - Grigory Shalvovich Chkhartishvili (Russian: Борис Акунин; Georgian: გრიგორი შალვას ძე ჩხარტიშვილი; Аlso see Grigory Chkhartishvili, Григорий Чхартишвили), born in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1956. Since 1958 he lives in Moscow. Writer and translator from Japanese. Author of crime stories set in tsarist Russia. In 1998 he made his debut with novel Azazel (to English readers known as The Winter Queen), where he created Erast Pietrovich Fandorin.
B. Akunin refers to Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin and Akuna, home name of Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet.
In September of 2000, Akunin was named Russian Writer of the Year and won the "Antibooker" prize in 2000 for his Erast Fandorin novel Coronation, or the last of the Romanovs.
Akunin also created crime-solving Orthodox nun, sister Pelagia, and literary genres.
His pseudonyms are Анатолий Брусникин and Анна Борисова. In some Dutch editions he is also known as Boris Akoenin.

Reviews

[Marina · Rating 2 out of 5]

Антиутопически-кошмарная версия очень жизненная и правдоподобная, к сожалению.

Утопически-райская версия - слишком слащавая фантазия-инфодамп, все проблемы решены, ничего интересного не происходит.

С удовольствием почитала бы продолжение приключений в антиутопии, о том, как главные герои попытались бы вывести мир на лучшую траекторию.

[Maya Ch · Rating 5 out of 5]

Как всегда, блестяще от Акунина. Хотя хочется задать много вопросов по устройству мира.

[Yulia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Back in high-school, some thirty years ago, I wrote an essay pondering benefits and drawbacks of immortality. My argument was that a soul needs a break from this material world. If memory serves, I put the limit to 'experiential satiety' at 2 or 3 hundred years. It was interesting to find similar musings in Akunin's new book. I wonder if he, like me, intuited this or (as is more his style) read some research to that effect and incorporated it in his writing.
But I digress, Akunin's Utopia is bland and boring, proving that life of leisure is dull. The point of life is growth and self-improvement which are found through struggle, rising to challenges and overcoming limitations. His Dystopia is even more underwhelming, seeing that most of it is pretty much what we have now. The second part of the book seemed lazy and rushed.