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Повести последних дней / Tales of the Last Days #1-3
Повести последних дней
Современная проза Казенная сказка, Дело Матюшина, Карагандинские девятины Книга молодого московского прозаика О.Павлова, уверенно набирающего популярность, включает в себя трилогию, сложившуюся в последнее десятилетие. Это остросоциальная проза, погружение в тему одуряющей солдатской и лагерной жизни. Повести `Казенная сказка` и `Карагандинские девятины`, роман `Дело Матюшина` связаны единым местом действия, авторским отношением к происходящему и общей мыслью об испытаниях, выпадающих на долю каждого.
494 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Oleg Pavlov
18 books8 followersOleg Pavlov (Russian: Олег Олегович Павлов; born: March 16, 1970 in Moscow) was a prominent Russian writer, and a winner of the Russian Booker Prize.
Born in Moscow, he served in the Interior Ministry troops near the city of Karaganda. The events that Pavlov portrayed in his stories and novels were inspired by his own experiences as a prison camp guard.
During his service, Pavlov suffered a head injury, was hospitalised, and spent over a month in a psychiatric ward. This allowed him to be released from the army before the end of the mandatory two-year military service. He went on to study at the Institute of Literature in Moscow.
He was only 24 years old when his first novel, Kazennaya skazka, was published in the Novy Mir Russian monthly magazine. He was noticed by the critics and the Russian Booker Prize jury, which short-listed the novel for the 1995 prize.
His next novel was The Matiushin Case (1997).
Pavlov received the Russian Booker Prize in 2002 for his book "Ninth Day Party in Karaganda: or the Story of the Recent Days" (Karagandinskiye deviatiny).
Pavlov was also the author of articles on literature, historical and social aspects of life in Russia, as well as numerous essays. In his 2003 book "The Russian Man in the 20th Century" he wrote about Russian life, not only based on his personal experience, but also on numerous letters received by the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Foundation in the early 1990s and given to him by the famous Russian writer and dissident and his wife, Natalia.
Oleg Pavlov was said to be one of the most gifted examples of what has been dubbed the “renaissance in Russian literature.”
Pavlov’s novel Asystole (colloquially “cardiac flatline”) was about the tragic essence of human life, the loneliness of the individual in the world of people on the importance and power of love. The novel reads like a confession. Its name sounds like a diagnosis. Asystole - cessation of cardiac activity, cardiac arrest. But the capacity to love gives meaning to life, had been languishing. The novel was published in 2009, prompting the reader an emotional shock, becoming, according to critics, one of the major literary events of recent times. The epigraph to it could be the lines of the European philosopher Emile Cioran Michel: "health - lack of feeling, and therefore - unreality. Ceased to suffer, will cease to exist."
Pavlov died of a heart attack in 2018, aged 48.
Born in Moscow, he served in the Interior Ministry troops near the city of Karaganda. The events that Pavlov portrayed in his stories and novels were inspired by his own experiences as a prison camp guard.
During his service, Pavlov suffered a head injury, was hospitalised, and spent over a month in a psychiatric ward. This allowed him to be released from the army before the end of the mandatory two-year military service. He went on to study at the Institute of Literature in Moscow.
He was only 24 years old when his first novel, Kazennaya skazka, was published in the Novy Mir Russian monthly magazine. He was noticed by the critics and the Russian Booker Prize jury, which short-listed the novel for the 1995 prize.
His next novel was The Matiushin Case (1997).
Pavlov received the Russian Booker Prize in 2002 for his book "Ninth Day Party in Karaganda: or the Story of the Recent Days" (Karagandinskiye deviatiny).
Pavlov was also the author of articles on literature, historical and social aspects of life in Russia, as well as numerous essays. In his 2003 book "The Russian Man in the 20th Century" he wrote about Russian life, not only based on his personal experience, but also on numerous letters received by the Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Foundation in the early 1990s and given to him by the famous Russian writer and dissident and his wife, Natalia.
Oleg Pavlov was said to be one of the most gifted examples of what has been dubbed the “renaissance in Russian literature.”
Pavlov’s novel Asystole (colloquially “cardiac flatline”) was about the tragic essence of human life, the loneliness of the individual in the world of people on the importance and power of love. The novel reads like a confession. Its name sounds like a diagnosis. Asystole - cessation of cardiac activity, cardiac arrest. But the capacity to love gives meaning to life, had been languishing. The novel was published in 2009, prompting the reader an emotional shock, becoming, according to critics, one of the major literary events of recent times. The epigraph to it could be the lines of the European philosopher Emile Cioran Michel: "health - lack of feeling, and therefore - unreality. Ceased to suffer, will cease to exist."
Pavlov died of a heart attack in 2018, aged 48.
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May 6, 2010I'm not gonna finish this one. It's not bad, there is nothing awfull or wrong about this book. Distant military base, characters, portraits, stills... I just don't see any single reason why I have or need or want to read it.
May 17, 2017
Девять кругов прошёл читатель вслед за писателем, заглядывая вместе с ним всюду. Нового узнать не пришлось, если не вспоминать о мышиной возне в среде больничных лекарственных препаратов. Неожиданно возникло в сюжете тело, было решено отправить его к месту захоронения по железной дороге. И пусть одно не увязывается с другим, Павлов строил повествование, ни на кого не оглядываясь. Единый раз произошло непонимание, когда отец умершего оказался готовым за бутылку водки продать родного сына. И продал. И не сожалел о гибели. И тело сына отправилось в небытие, словно и не приходило тело в бытие, отбыв, так и не прибыв.
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October 16, 2017
Ech ... z takim samym trudem przychodzi mi sklecenie kilku zdań, jak doczytanie tej książki do końca.
Dawno, naprawdę dawno, nie czytałem czegoś tak trudnego, tak wręcz dręczącego.
A książka jest znakomita!
Ale boli. Z każdą kolejną częścią, kolejnym rozdziałem, coraz bardziej boli. Znowu nasuwa się Dostojewski - ta niewiarygodna obrazowość, "fizyczność" tej literatury. Ileż to razy w ciągu tych kilkunastu dni czułem się jak wartownik pilnujący zeków w zonie. Autobiograficzność tej prozy to niezwykły, choć bolesny, jej atut. Kto był w jakimkolwiek 'ludowym' wojsku przed upadkiem komuny, od razu się w niej odnajdzie. Nieludzki system szczególnie nieludzko traktował swoich obrońców.
Kawał literatury.
Dawno, naprawdę dawno, nie czytałem czegoś tak trudnego, tak wręcz dręczącego.
A książka jest znakomita!
Ale boli. Z każdą kolejną częścią, kolejnym rozdziałem, coraz bardziej boli. Znowu nasuwa się Dostojewski - ta niewiarygodna obrazowość, "fizyczność" tej literatury. Ileż to razy w ciągu tych kilkunastu dni czułem się jak wartownik pilnujący zeków w zonie. Autobiograficzność tej prozy to niezwykły, choć bolesny, jej atut. Kto był w jakimkolwiek 'ludowym' wojsku przed upadkiem komuny, od razu się w niej odnajdzie. Nieludzki system szczególnie nieludzko traktował swoich obrońców.
Kawał literatury.
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