Alfons, who was not: Hanon, Alfons

And the truth: so far there was no such writer – Alfons Alla. And there was “just” comedian and journalist. He was not in great literature. He was not in Russian. He did not succumb to translation and transfer. This is the first book of the French black comedian and blue cynic. The eternal juggler with words, the forerunner of the surrealists and the friend of Eric Sati, with a careless movement of his hand, he founded conceptualism and minimalism. Yuri Hanon set a goal to make a new writer: whose Alfons was not there. And here he is already here.
In addition to this book, the hand of the second author – Yuri Hanon – belongs to five more thick books based on Alfons or with his (not) mediocre participation. In the early 2010s, Yuri Hanon completed and published with closed circulations: “Two processes”, “We are not pork!”, “Hanon Parade Alla”, “Do not hit hysteria!”, “Three disabled people” and, perhaps, the crown of all creativity – the huge fresco of “Black Alleys”, in the middle of the pages of Alle’s outside world, is accompanied Friedrich Nietzsche and Zak …

Author
Hanon Yuri, Alfons Alla
Publisher
Faces of Russia, 2013