Moskovskii Gambit: Roman[Moscow gambit: Novel]

by Iurii Mamleev

Iury Mamleev is a founder of genre metaphysical realism and a founder of a literary-philosophical school. The main task of methaphysicist is to discover inner chasm in a soul of a person. life is too short and literature serves the purpose of a catalyst to a catharsis.

Genres: Fiction, Russia

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1983

Reviews

[Vit Babenco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Moscow Gambit… Stagnation of the seventies… Esoteric underground… Poets, writers, artists, mystics… Partying and drunken talks…

Again, some explosive voices were heard, someone was arguing, someone was pouring vodka, someone was kissing.
“They don’t believe me, they never believe me,” was heard somewhere to the side, but it all merged with other voices. “Why mock yourself so meanly… And I envy myself… No, no, let’s run away from here, I want to go to the pub, the children are crying there... Either we will all be saved, or it’s the end: we will all perish. Because there are no longer any righteous people or saints on earth, it has become dark – either we will all perish, or we will all be saved… Yes, no, no, I love you... Wow, this booze is great…”

Somewhere there is a mysterious man possessing secret knowledge… And he must show the way… The protagonist and his friends were promised to be introduced to him… The underground atmosphere was gravid…

The spiritual underground grew incredibly, private libraries with rare books appeared from somewhere, books, translations, reprints began to circulate from hand to hand… So no reading rooms in public libraries of Moscow could accommodate those who were searching: everyone crawled away to apartments, circles, dachas…
Interests were mainly humanitarian: art, literature, religion, metaphysics, occultism, and so on.

Idealists… Daydreamers… Weirdos… Oddballs… Intellectual freaks… They dream about the absolute but exist in squalour…

“Art will triumph. Our monuments must stand opposite each other in the squares of the future Moscow.”
“To hell with the monuments. Where will we ourselves be then, in what worlds, in what cycles – that’s what matters most. I’m afraid we won’t have time for these monuments…”
“Naturally… Yes, that’s it. It will be hard to contemplate your own monument from hell.”

In this world there isn’t a single person who doesn’t have some, however foolish, faith.

[Смазочный Режим · Rating 2 out of 5]

Нелучшее начало знакомства с Мамлеевым, которое по итогу как ушат грязи вываливается на чтеца не оставляя никаких моментов за то, чтобы зацепиться глазом. Имена, шатания бесцельные, поверхностные размышления о высших материях, закольцованные истории и крайне безалаберное компонование текста