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- Author: Elizarov Mihail
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Availability: Available
- Condition: Excellent
- Code: 56271
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Elizarov Mihail
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Mikhail Elizarov: Librarian
»So what is this, for God's sake? What kind of book is this?" I have to admit that while reading the novel The Librarian by Mikhail Elizarov, a Russian novelist of the younger generation, these and similar questions did not leave my mind...
Postmodernist literature is fascinated by books and literature: The Name of the Rose, Khazarian Dictionary, Coral Gate, Dumas Club, Babylonian Library... are just some of the numerous works that illustrate the range, quality, and mass acceptance of "books about books". This Russian example does not stay within the genre, moreover, it is a contemporary variation of at least a few other genres, including the one that is reflected in the obsession with serial killers, psychopaths and violence in general - it is easy to identify it in the novels: American Psycho, When the Lambs Shut Up, This Is Not a Country for Old Men, Elementary Particles, Men Who Hate Women...
Just as unexpectedly fragmentary, yet relatively linear and readable composition, the unexpected and bloody environment of the librarian's shop, filled with merciless confrontations and wars, whose participants are even more unexpected: former heroes of socialist work, retired canal diggers and crane operators, former party secretaries and other dispossessed officials, war veterans and singers of revolutionary songs, and all sorts of other items of Soviet relics of the past. They join together in separate "libraries" and mercilessly clash to get hold of the outdated books of the forgotten regime writer Dmitri Gromov and thus afford the new youth, power and wisdom hidden in them. Because it turned out that these books, which to any normal person seem like derisive scraps of socialist realist literature, give readers supernatural power!
This brutal fixation, this shocking orgy of warring book lovers, is still not completely incompatible with the apparently "erudite", "academic", "bloodless" (yes, that's what they called it!) genre of "books about books". Namely, as here, in most examples of that genre, the books are - killer!
(from Denis Peričić's review)
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- Author: Elizarov Mihail
- Publisher: Šareni dućan
- Year of publication:2012
- Place of publication:Koprivnica
- Pages:331
- Dimensions:16x24 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:Excellent
- Binding:Hardcover
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