Turn off my video. Shalashova A.E.

Alexander Shalashov comes from Cherepovets, lives and works in Samara. Graduate of the Literary Institute. She worked as a teacher at school, then created a rock band “Sea”. Laumen Laureate "Lyceum" 2019 and 2020. In the nomination "Poetry".

the events of the novel "Turn off my video" cover the period of quarantine in 2020: the chronicle of the pandemic with the eyes of ordinary Moscow schoolchildren and teachers. Distance learning, video conferences at Zoom, communication - in chats... Teenagers are forced to transfer their lives online - but for a long time? And now the young, sharp, fragile and subtly feeling breaks to the surface through all the prohibitions, and passion and death are stronger than the self -isolation regime.

“The fragility of this prose reflects the fragility of the relationship that we try to overcome, despite the illusion, despite the illusion At a distance, pandemia, turned on and turned off Zoom. ” Olga Braininger

“Heroes come to lessons at Zoom, correspond in messengers, call up with parents at Skype. Instead of the usual chapters of the novel, we see the identifiers of conferences and the names of the storytellers (tenth graders of faith, Ilya, Alena, the young teacher Sofia Aleksandrovna, etc.), and the narrative goes from one hero to another - this is how the effect of an endless polyphony is created...

This is a novel about the world -wide communicative crisis and the inability to establish other connections to replace the traditional ones. A brilliant debut. ”

Alena Rakitina, an expert in the direction of the“ Literature ”of the Taurida art cluster

“ In our country there are many opportunities for creative self-realization. One of them is the publishing program of the Tavrida art cluster for young writers. We support talented authors, value a variety of genres and topics. It is very important for us that novice poets and prose writers have a chance to declare themselves, even if their opinion does not always coincide with ours. ”