Resurrection. Sobolev D.

How does private life correlate with the logic of national or world history? This issue has been set by Russian classics more than once - and the first among them, of course, is Leo Tolstoy. Denis Sobolev’s new novel continues and develops this tradition. The author not only talks about the life of one family in different historical circumstances from the era of stagnation to the present day, but weaves the fate of the heroes into the fabric of great history. Arina and Mitya are a brother and sister whose growing up is in the 1980s and 1990s. From childhood in an intelligent environment, the Leningrad rock underground and traveling around the country before emigration-their life paths are archetypal and at the same time unique.

The plot geography is impressive by its scope no less than the length of the novel in time: the action takes place in Leningrad and Moscow, in the Russian North and Siberia, in Israel and Lebanon, Europe and Latin America. With such an artistic scale and an appeal to religious and philosophical categories, D. Sobolev pays tribute to the traditions of a great Russian novel, while maintaining his main dignity-a sincere interest in a person. A well -aimed and sensitive language that the author chooses, helps to expand the genre boundaries and breathe a new life into a familiar conceptual frame.

Denis Sobolev - writer and philologist, professor of Haifa University.