Демон Декарта

by Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Володимир Рафєєнко

Long-list nominantov premii «NOS-2014»Roman-snovidenie donetskogo pisatelja Vladimira Rafe-enko, v chem tvorchestve organichno soedinilis motivy i priemy Gogolja, Pelevina i Umberto Eko. Sjuzhet romana nekij Ivan Pavlovich Levkin v vozraste 12 let vdrug obnaruzhivaet, chto sposoben prozhivat ne odnu zhizn i sudbu, a srazu neskolko. Perekhody iz odnogo voploschenija v drugoe proiskhodjat putem mertsanija (geroj popadaet v mertsanie, osoboe sostojanie uma i dushi, posle kotorogo on obnaruzhivaet sebja sovershenno inym chelovekom - s inoj vneshnostju, privychkami, professiej, inymi roditeljami i zhenschinami, no sokhranjaet prizrachnuju pamjat o sebe-predyduschem, khotja nikto vokrug iz prezhnikh rodnykh i blizkikh geroja v novom obliche ne uznaet).

256 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Volodymyr Volodymyrovych Rafeienko (born November 25, 1969, in Donetsk) is a Ukrainian writer, novelist, and poet. From 1992 to 2018, he wrote his works in Russian, was mainly published in Russia and was considered a representative of Russian literature. He is the winner of the Russian Literary Prizes "Russian Prize" (2010, 2012) and "New Literature" (2014). In 2014, after moving to Kyiv, he studied Ukrainian. He later began writing his new novel in Ukrainian and became a full representative of Ukrainian literature. In 2019 he published his first novel in Ukrainian "Mondegreen (songs about death and love).