In a boat scratched on the wall. Shishkin M.P.

Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961, lives in Switzerland. The author of the novels “Notes of Larionov”, “Ishmael’s capture”, “Venus of the hair”, “Writer” and the literary and historical guide “Russian Switzerland”. Laureate of the prizes “Big Book”, “Russian Bouquer” and “National bestseller.”

This book contains texts written by me as I approach. Someone said that culture arose from a feeling of loneliness before death. There is a legend about the prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment alone. For years, a cut of a prison spoon scratched a boat on the wall. And then one day he was brought, as usual, water, bread and a balija, but the camera was empty, and the wall was clean. He got into his scratched boat and sailed away.

The book is a boat. You just need to revive the words so that the boat becomes real, so that you can sit in it and sail to those who love and are waiting for you. Culture did not arise out of loneliness, but from human heat. "