Evgeny Vodolazkin is the author of the novels "Lavr", "Aviator", "Soloviev and Larionov", "Brisbane", winner of the "Big Book", "Yasnaya Polyana" and "Book of the Year" awards. His books have been translated into many languages. In his new book "Walk Undauntedly", the author himself comes to the fore. "A small personal Paradise of childhood", the history of the family, his native Petersburg and Kyiv, the Pushkin House and his scientific pursuits, the transition from a philologist-medievalist to a writer, the first-time told details of the creation of "Lavr", "Aviator", "Brisbane"... In a frank and confidential conversation with the reader, the signature magic of the text remains unchanged: Vodolazkin himself now stands in line with Arseny-Lavr, aviator Platonov and virtuoso Gleb Yanovsky. "The writer's calling is to be a saucer at a seance: to spin in the center of the table and compose texts from letters. Writing is, in essence, naming. Assigning words to what excited but remained nameless - be it the salty fragility of the skin after the beach or the airing (the frosty haze in the window) of a hospital ward. The first writer was Adam, to whom God gave the right to name the animals around him. By giving the animals names, Adam transferred them from the singular to the general - and made them the property of all. The writer's job is to catch the music of the spheres and translate it into notes. To be, if you like, "the best akyn of the steppe": to sing about what he sees. Which, I emphasize, everyone living there sees. And only he sings, because he is able to turn the steppe into text." Evgeny Vodolazkin
Author: Evgeniy Vodolazkin
Year of release: 2019
Publisher: AST Publishing House
Pages: 416
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 135 x 206 x 25 mm
ISBN: 978-5-17-120118-0