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Dmitry Bykov is a prose writer, poet, publicist, radio and television journalist. His lectures of the “Direct Speech” cycle are enormous. The author of many novels and the original literary biographies of Boris Pasternak, Bulat Okudzhava, Maxim Gorky, Vladimir Mayakovsky. Twice laureate of the Big Book Prize.
In Russia of the future, fenced off from the whole world, there is an endless war between conquerors - Khazars and Varangians. The worst of all in this war is the indigenous population. Lazy, quiet and submissive, they, however, are carriers of the innermost truth. History walks in a circle: totalitarianism, thaw, stagnation, revolution, totalitarianism, thaw ... Salvation, according to legend, will bring the baby - the son of Varangian and the priestess.
Anti -utopia. Satire. Large -scale parody. Encyclopedia of Russian life. Alternative history. Fantastic fairy tale for adults. The most inadvertible romance ... All this is Dmitry Bykov’s “railway”.
“I was born in order to write this book, and invented it for ten years. My favorite stories and the main thoughts came together in it, which have always been about the same thing, namely, about no -impending - my most terrible fear. In my country, I am also homeless, and this is not only my feeling ”(Dmitry Bykov)
In Russia of the future, fenced off from the whole world, there is an endless war between conquerors - Khazars and Varangians. The worst of all in this war is the indigenous population. Lazy, quiet and submissive, they, however, are carriers of the innermost truth. History walks in a circle: totalitarianism, thaw, stagnation, revolution, totalitarianism, thaw ... Salvation, according to legend, will bring the baby - the son of Varangian and the priestess.
Anti -utopia. Satire. Large -scale parody. Encyclopedia of Russian life. Alternative history. Fantastic fairy tale for adults. The most inadvertible romance ... All this is Dmitry Bykov’s “railway”.
“I was born in order to write this book, and invented it for ten years. My favorite stories and the main thoughts came together in it, which have always been about the same thing, namely, about no -impending - my most terrible fear. In my country, I am also homeless, and this is not only my feeling ”(Dmitry Bykov)
Author:
Author:Bykov D.L.
Cover:
Cover:Hard
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Modern Literature
- Category:Poetry & Literature
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Series:
Series: Bykov. All
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:18+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-17-122332-8
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