State-owned fairy tale

"State tale", despite the fact that nothing supernatural in it does not happen and everything is taken from the realities of Russian life - the work is fantastic. This fantastic, by nature, by substance is the same that in Gogol"s" dead souls" and in Platonovsky "Cheving . This is a fairy tale about Russia. And may not be cast in a classically perfect form, she immediately took his place in Russian literature, causing the admiration of the living classics Viktor Astafieva and George Vladimov. And in 2012, its author "for confessional prose, imbued with poetic power and compassion, for the artistic and philosophical search for the meaning of the existence of a person in the border circumstances" was awarded the literary award of Alexander Solzhenitsyn