Summary
Pavel Selukov: Getting hold of Tarkovsky: Non-cultural stories
A new voice of Russian literature. Life on Proleterka is instructive, especially for young people. Proleterka is a suburb of Perm squeezed between a women's prison, a factory, a railway and a cemetery. On all four sides - the limit states of human existence. Boys from Proleterka chase trains, steal bicycles, fall in love with excellent schoolgirls, fall in love with prisoners. They learn to argue and keep quiet, to drink beer instead of breakfast and not to hope for anything. Sometimes they watch Tarkovsky to win a girl, sometimes the girl introduces them to Brodsky. However, love lasts until the first fist. After that - brotherhood. Because it is important that you are part of a team, that you have someone you can call when the police knock on your door or when you start causing damage. Ako netko pokuša pobjeći od kraja, kraj ga uvijek nađe - u vojsci, na poslu, u zatvoru, na internetu. And so, between "we are emperors" and "this is our world", between attempts at cultural elevation and mason's beer, there are stories about growing up without childhood. For the first time in the Serbian language, translated by Ana Jakovljević Radunović, we present the new voice of Russian literature, the Permian writer Pavel Selukov, who became a literary sensation almost overnight. In 2018, the two-time winner of the Russian National Award for Novel of the Year, Leonid Yuzefovich, shared one of Selukov's stories on social networks, which launched the young writer right into the center of the contemporary literary scene.
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