Moscow-Petushki. Erofeev V.V.

Venedikt Erofeev is a bright and ambiguous phenomenon in Russian literature. His famous poem “Moscow-Petushki”, written back in 1970, a kind of philosophical parable, a work outside of time, because Erofeev created his world, his universe in the book, in the center of which is “a man, as a place of meeting of all the plans of being”. For the first time appeared on the pages of the magazine "Sobriety and Culture" in 1988, the poem "Moscow-Petushka" became a genuine revelation for readers and was later translated into many languages ​​of the world.

“In the universe of Erofeev there is no common sense, logic, there is no law, order. If you look at him outside, he will remain incomprehensible. Only having joined the poetics of Erofeev, only by moving on his surrealistic language, only becoming one of the characters, in the end-the co-author, the reader can feel the ideological tension of the philosophical and religious dialogue, which is conducted by “sponsored people”. But even then the reader will be able to find out the Erofeevsky picture of the world, but not understand it. After all, the truth cannot be obtained from secondary hands ”(A. Genis).