Yablonsky’s new novel does not look like all his previous books, unusual on the topic, genre and composition. This is anti -utopia, which is fundamentally different from the anti -utopia of Zamyatin, Orwell or Huxley. Deprived of far -fetched science fiction, the realities of the “future” or “other” world, it is overwhelmed by its everyday reliability and is precisely why it is so terrible. The book amazes with the power of the foresight, the energy of the language, the persuasiveness of the psychological motivation for the behavior of its characters.
It would be an absolutely incorrect perception of the novel by A. Yablonsky as a political pamphlet or a topical feuilleton. Its semantic rod is an eternal and unshakable urgent problem: personality and power, but not specific representatives of the political elite, but the types of carriers of power, serve as prototypes of the characters, in each era with their names and guides, but the mentality of which (in any case, in Russia) remains unchanged.
Author
Yablonsky Alexander Pavlovich
Publisher
Aquarius, 2013
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