Sapphire albatross
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Melikhov A.M. Sapphire Albatross: a novel. A provincial boy discovers the gift of seeing the world through others' eyes and as an adult finds himself in the St. Petersburg House on the embankment opposite the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood. This house, too, stands on blood and the suffering of the Soviet writers who lived there, yet the ruthless critic Felix calls this house the Henhouse on the Canal, depicting the history of its famous inhabitants as a story of cowardice and adaptability. But for the main character, who must pass through their suffering in a phantasmagorical world, Soviet literature appears in the form of an albatross in the henhouse. The novel is filled with vivid sketches from the past and present, with life, tears, and love, with the shock of a father seeing his adult son for the first time, with a vanished monument of the Soviet era. The novel combines everyday authenticity and fascination with strong symbolic and phantasmagorical elements. What is more valuable: truth or mercy? Melikhov's novel, despite its bitter truth, is not a merciless tribunal, but a search for understanding.
Author:
Author:Melikhov A.M.
Cover:
Cover:hardcover
Category:
- Category:Fiction
- Category:Reference books
Publication language:
Publication Language:Russian
Paper:
Paper:offset
Dimensions:
Dimensions:21x13x3 cm
Series:
Series:It's time!
Age restrictions:
Age restrictions:16+
ISBN:
ISBN:978-5-9691-2416-5
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