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Моите. Есета за руската литература
„Моите“ е книга с есета за руската литература от Михаил Шишкин.
Нима ни се предлага някаква учебникарско-христоматийна книга? Не. Това е книга полемика. Полемиката е политическа. Макар че авторът не е политолог, а писател, който разказва за писатели, при това с емпатия и проникновение. Първата дума от посланието му е заглавието. Тези хора и тяхното писмено дело – заявява Михаил Шишкин - са Моите. За руското имперско, съветско, постсъветско училище те може да са някакъв задължителен материал; за властта в Кремъл – културен параван на насилието, за неруския свят – водачи в разбирането на Русия. За Шишкин те са бойни другари. Битката им е една: високата руска култура против руската несвобода, обединяваща деспотичната власт и нискокултурния народ. А Шишкиновите Негови винаги са били против това институционализирано насилие. Винаги са губели битката – и пак я започват.
Деян Кюранов
Нима ни се предлага някаква учебникарско-христоматийна книга? Не. Това е книга полемика. Полемиката е политическа. Макар че авторът не е политолог, а писател, който разказва за писатели, при това с емпатия и проникновение. Първата дума от посланието му е заглавието. Тези хора и тяхното писмено дело – заявява Михаил Шишкин - са Моите. За руското имперско, съветско, постсъветско училище те може да са някакъв задължителен материал; за властта в Кремъл – културен параван на насилието, за неруския свят – водачи в разбирането на Русия. За Шишкин те са бойни другари. Битката им е една: високата руска култура против руската несвобода, обединяваща деспотичната власт и нискокултурния народ. А Шишкиновите Негови винаги са били против това институционализирано насилие. Винаги са губели битката – и пак я започват.
Деян Кюранов
306 pages, Paperback
Published October 3, 2025
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About the author
Mikhail Shishkin
23 books250 followersMikhail Pavlovich Shishkin (Russian: Михаил Павлович Шишкин, born 18 January 1961) is a Russian writer.
Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow.
Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After graduation he worked as a street sweeper, road worker, journalist, school teacher, and translator. He debuted as a writer in 1993, when his short story "Calligraphy Lesson" was published in Znamya magazine. Since 1995 he has lived in Zurich, Switzerland. He averages one book every five years.
Shishkin openly opposes the current Russian government, calling it a "corrupt, criminal regime, where the state is a pyramid of thieves" when he pulled out of representing Russia at the 2013 Book Expo in the United States.
Shishkin's books have been translated into more than ten languages. His prose is universally praised for style, e.g., "Shishkin's language is wonderfully lucid and concise. Without sounding archaic, it reaches over the heads of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (whose relationship with the Russian language was often uneasy) to the tradition of Pushkin." He deals with universal themes like death, resurrection, and love. Shishkin has been compared to numerous great writers, including Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce, while he admits to being influenced by Chekhov along with Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Bunin, saying "Bunin taught me not to compromise, and to go on believing in myself. Chekhov passed on his sense of humanity – that there can’t be any wholly negative characters in your text. And from Tolstoy I learned not to be afraid of being naïve."
Mikhail Shishkin was born in 1961 in Moscow.
Shishkin studied English and German at Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. After graduation he worked as a street sweeper, road worker, journalist, school teacher, and translator. He debuted as a writer in 1993, when his short story "Calligraphy Lesson" was published in Znamya magazine. Since 1995 he has lived in Zurich, Switzerland. He averages one book every five years.
Shishkin openly opposes the current Russian government, calling it a "corrupt, criminal regime, where the state is a pyramid of thieves" when he pulled out of representing Russia at the 2013 Book Expo in the United States.
Shishkin's books have been translated into more than ten languages. His prose is universally praised for style, e.g., "Shishkin's language is wonderfully lucid and concise. Without sounding archaic, it reaches over the heads of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (whose relationship with the Russian language was often uneasy) to the tradition of Pushkin." He deals with universal themes like death, resurrection, and love. Shishkin has been compared to numerous great writers, including Anton Chekhov, Vladimir Nabokov and James Joyce, while he admits to being influenced by Chekhov along with Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Bunin, saying "Bunin taught me not to compromise, and to go on believing in myself. Chekhov passed on his sense of humanity – that there can’t be any wholly negative characters in your text. And from Tolstoy I learned not to be afraid of being naïve."
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October 14, 2024
Some really interesting ideas especially in the foreword and the afterword, which are the best written chapters, but I don’t like the writing style which seemed a little condescending. It’s a great idea though to rethink [classical] Russian literature.
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