Mr. Oil, friend: Roman. Ilichevsky A.V.

In the novel, the plot of which is unfolding against the background of Asian Baroque, Alexander Ilichevsky realizes the theme of radical connectedness on top of metaphysical boundaries - sleep and reality, living and inanimate, life and death. The author offers the idea of ​​total unity, but does not based on the Buddhist worldview, but rather on the feeling of “life everywhere”, which forced Maurice Blancho at one time to express the idea of ​​death as an excess of vitality.

For the Ilicevsky, the existence of loneliness and the authenticity of each individual life in this loneliness is only a special case against the background of universal and generally harmonious connectedness. Alexander Ilichevsky - laureate of the Prize named after Yuri Kazakov (2005); Three times the finalist of the National Literary Prize "Big Book" (2006, 2007, 2008); The finalist of the 2006 Bunin Prize (Silver Medal). Laureate of the Russian Booker Award 2007 for the novel Matisse.