Leo Boaz Yakhinov and Yakhin-Boizov
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The British novelist of American -Jewish descent Russell Hoban is a separate phenomenon in English -speaking literature, a magical surrealist, a real London, born in Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian Jews, a participant in World War II. At first, Hoban wrote only for children, but since 1973 - just from the novels "Leo Boaz Yakhinov and Yakhin -Boizov" (1973) and "Kleintsait" (1974) - he begins to compose for adults, and this is our huge luck with you . "Dodo Press" has long wanted to publish two much denser and mighty novels - two parables about fearlessness and immortality, the strength and weakness of the creators, about the personally suffered meanings, about what fathers and children should or should not each other," Leo Boaz -Yakhinov and Yakhin-Boazov "and" Kleintsait ". And moreover, the Hoban is a real poet and a linguistic equalibrist, his figurative tongue creates a multi -layer shadow of fresh meanings behind each object. "Kleintsait" (1974) is a black parable on the topic of the Greek myth of Orpheus. The main character of the novel, Kleintsait (which means “small time” in German, and translated into English turns into another meaning and acquires the meaning of “ordinary, ordinary”) suddenly receives dismissal, feels incomprehensible pain, finds himself in the hospital, falls in love with an excellent nurse, And all this is one day. Then it turns out that his disease lies not somewhere, but in the area of hypotenuse, range and asymptot. The game continues, and the stretto, the topic and answer, the fugue and other musical terms come to the stage, which turns the disease of the Kleinitsyte into the metaphor, the condition of human existence in that strange city, consisting only of the hospital and subway, which at the same time is London 70 -x with all its characteristic signs. Kleintsait - Mr. Zauradov and Orpheus, his nurse - Eurydice, subway - the kingdom of the dead, Hades, and the characters themselves do not tire of repeating that they are part of the mythological plot, as ancient as life itself. All this game with meanings and reckless turning, travesty with famous plots resembles Joyce, and Hoban himself also calls Conrad and Dickens. The text is constantly mentioned by Fukidid, Plato, Ortega-i-Gasset, Wordsworth, Milton, excerpts from their works are quoted-the Hoban of the master of literary reminiscences. "Kleintsait" is a novel about scripture, about shaky, unstable relationships between art and reality.
American novelist Russell Hoban - an unusual phenomenon for the United States. To start with the fact that in 1969 he moved to a residence in London. This city was elected the scene of many of his novels, the famous London accent (which is so difficult to convey when translated) is used by him with amazing virtuosity, and this gives many critics to believe that Hoban is a native London. However, this son of the emigrants from the Ukrainian town of Ostrog was born in 1925 in Lanceil, Pennsylvania, participated in the Second World War in the Italian campaign and was awarded a bronze star. After the war, he moves to New York, where he earns a living by illustrating books, the scripture of commercials, in general, all that his heroes will subsequently do. Age, participation in the Second World War, moving to New York - all this resembles the biographies of an entire generation of American writers, to whom Norman Meyler, J. D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller belong. But Hoban never particularly participated in the stormy life of the literary New York. His first books are books for children, the most famous of which, the novel "Mouse and her child", published in 1967, is already recognized as classics of the genre and is appreciated by criticism along with the works of Andersen and Milna. Since 1973, he begins to write "adult" prose: one after another his novels “Leo Woaz-Yahinov and Ikhin-Wells",“ Kleintsait ”, "Diary of Turtle", Riddle Walker, Pilgerman” were released.
The prose of the hoban - the parable, full of mythological allusions, language games and black humor - earned among critics the nickname "magical surrealism"
American novelist Russell Hoban - an unusual phenomenon for the United States. To start with the fact that in 1969 he moved to a residence in London. This city was elected the scene of many of his novels, the famous London accent (which is so difficult to convey when translated) is used by him with amazing virtuosity, and this gives many critics to believe that Hoban is a native London. However, this son of the emigrants from the Ukrainian town of Ostrog was born in 1925 in Lanceil, Pennsylvania, participated in the Second World War in the Italian campaign and was awarded a bronze star. After the war, he moves to New York, where he earns a living by illustrating books, the scripture of commercials, in general, all that his heroes will subsequently do. Age, participation in the Second World War, moving to New York - all this resembles the biographies of an entire generation of American writers, to whom Norman Meyler, J. D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller belong. But Hoban never particularly participated in the stormy life of the literary New York. His first books are books for children, the most famous of which, the novel "Mouse and her child", published in 1967, is already recognized as classics of the genre and is appreciated by criticism along with the works of Andersen and Milna. Since 1973, he begins to write "adult" prose: one after another his novels “Leo Woaz-Yahinov and Ikhin-Wells",“ Kleintsait ”, "Diary of Turtle", Riddle Walker, Pilgerman” were released.
The prose of the hoban - the parable, full of mythological allusions, language games and black humor - earned among critics the nickname "magical surrealism"
Author:
Author:Hoban R.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Series:
Series: Hidden gold of the twentieth century
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-86471-823-0
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