Moscow-Petushki

Venedict Erofeev is a bright and ambiguous phenomenon in Russian literature. His famous poem "Moscow - Petushki", written back in 1970, a kind of philosophical parable, a work out of time, because Yerofeev created his world in the book, his universe, in the center of which is a person, man as a meeting place for all plans of being . For the first time appeared on the pages of the magazine and culture, the poem "Moscow-Petushki" became a real revelation for readers and was later translated into many languages ​​of the world. In the Universe of Yerofeyev, there is no common sense, logic, there is no law, about. If you look at it outside, it will remain incomprehensible. Just inclusion in the poetics of Yerofeyev, only by going to his surreal language, only becoming one of the characters, in the end - co-author, the reader can feel the ideological tension of the philosophical and religious dialogue, which is leading "leaps. But even then the reader will be able to learn the Erofeev picture of the world, but not understand it. The truth is generally not possible to get from the second hands" (A. Genis)