We went out to smoke for 17 years. Elizarov M. Yu.

Mikhail Elizarov-a prose writer, a musician, author of the Earth’s novels (National Bestseller Award), Librarian (Russian Bucher Award), Pasternak and Cartoons, Nail collections (short-list Prizes of Andrei Bely), “Cubes.”

“Elizarov to himself and the direction, and the criteria for the assessment, and God, and the king, and the hero. It is emphasized paradoxical and aggressively provocative. His lyrical hero is impudent, handsome, bodybuilder, but at the same time helpless and defenseless as a child. From brutality to tenderness, he has one step, which he takes constantly, so he continuously “leads and writes”, in the words of N.S. Leskova. Each story in the collection is good in its own way. They are about love, about treason, about loneliness, about travel and about the hopeless experience of a fight with the world that will still win you. ”

“My view has not actually changed the last seventeen years. Since that September, as a warlike “relatives” was revealed to me, the special forces of the ziperkalya, I wear only black. In memory of the meeting. The least I would like to be like a mummy samurai from a “magnificent seven”, a peasant with a stolen genealogy, armor from someone else's shoulder. However, there was enough heart to die with dignity. I am not yet sure of my heart... "