Librarian

Mikhail Elizarov is the author of the novels “Earth”, “Pasternak” and “Cartoons” (shorts - a sheet of the National Bestseller Award), collections of stories “Nail” (short - a sheet of Andrei Belogo Prize), “We went out to smoke for 17 years ”(prize of the reader vote of the“ nose ”award). “Librarian” is a novel awarded the Russian Bucher Award and gave rise to scandals and discussions in society; The novel about the sacred texts - but without the “book dust” of Borges and IVF: books here are used according to direct archetypal purposes - setting in metal, they crush weak skull boxes, break fate, call on the bonfire and invade the fabric of the universe.

The boring production novels of all the forgotten Soviet writer Gromov years after his death discover magical properties: everyone is able to give the reader supernatural abilities. Not only the text, but also typographic paint and paper are important; Several sects of bibliophiles are hunting for rarities, for the right to read the book you have to fight an ax in your hand... ” Elizarov and Sorokin work on the same material, but Sorokin deliberately trades and parodies this material (in the spirit of social - art), while Elizarov perceives it in all seriousness ”(Victor Toporov).