Post office. Luhaikina Revenge. A set of 2 books. Bukovsky Ch., Brotigan R.

“Post Office” is a fresh version of the novel, updated by translator Max Nemtsov.

for Henry Chinaska, alter ego, post office-the underworld, where he got of his own free will. And in the underworld there is no rest: you need to fight off the annoying inhabitants waiting for non -existent departments, wind kilometers in unfriendly areas, listen to complaints, evade additional work. And there is no way out, and the longing presses, from which no salvation is except women and alcohol.

Never in the literature before the "post office" Bukovsky, the post office did not look like such a terrifying and alluring place. With the translations updated after 20 years.

Richard Brotigan (1935-1984)-American prose writer and poet, a sign figure in the counterculture of the 1960s-1970s, who became the inspirer of many writers from Erland Lou and Christopher Moore to Haruki Murakami and Sarah Hall.

The book included: a collection of stories "Lazhaikina Revenge" of 1971, paradoxical and bright, consisting of both full-fledged stories and from the sketches of the-strokes; The historical novel “Abortion” about the full romantic capabilities of the Public Library in California, where only unpublished manuscripts accept; The story “So that the wind does not take all this away” about one deadly mistake, when instead of a hamburger, cartridges for a pistol were bought.

The mini-collection of the unique prose of Richard Brotigan is a significant event for all admirers of the writer’s work, who was not at home in this world.

“The work of the brotigan is one of the most convincing examples in American literature the penetration of eastern philosophy and aesthetics into the western canon; He is the owner of a unique lyrical voice, sounding in the space of European literary minimalism. At the same time, the brotigan remains truly a national American writer ” - Max Nemtsov, translator