Sergey Babayan

Leading program "Topics" Andrey Sharry:

The man of the day of Radio Liberty is Moscow Prose -prose Sergey Babayan, the laureate for the first time handed by the literary prize named after Ivan Petrovich Belkin for the story “Without a Return”, published in the journal “Continent”. He was born in 1958 in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute, the author of several books, including the historical dilogy "Lord Officers" and "Nevin's captain", a collection of stories and novels "My wine", the book "Mamaevo Battle". Married, has a daughter, loves pets. The person of the Day of Radio Freedom of the writer Sergei Babayan is represented by a member of the Jury of the Belkin Sergey Yursky Prize.

Sergey Yursky:

I am glad for Babayan unusually, I have been reading him for a long time, I am glad for this writer, who is a sufferer, and who has a sense of pity, a feeling that is considered despicable, but on him, maybe you can stretch out a terrible burden that is now hanging on us. I like this story. I do not like them, she is so painful in the finale that I no longer know how to breathe. I’m not a literary critic, but I’m going to write a comparative analysis of Babayan’s novel, which has a subtitle of “Neero of our time” and the story of the famous, world famous writer Patrick Zyuskind, which is called “Dove”. They are exactly the same by the message, because there is a dove that ruined the life of a person, and here is a raven. Both work as a result as a guards. There is a striking similarity. It is clear that neither one nor the other read the story of one and the other, and this is the exact opposite of mentality. Babayan talked about how, in the name of love for an unhappy and absolutely unnecessary raven, not standing and only spoiling life, but in the name of this love you can lose everything. This is a strange and completely different consciousness. This is a very interesting analysis of today's bifurcation of the world. I am also glad for the Magazine "Continent", a literary and religious magazine, although Babayan never wrote about the church, prayers, or about repentance. All his work is painful repentance

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