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Vyacheslav Kuritsyn (for the newspaper "Time Mn") : "The Big Buker Prize ($ 12,000) was awarded to Mikhail Shishkin for the novel" Ishmael. "This is a heavy, but touching and virtuoso absurd epic on fair philosophical deviations. It is worth congratulating on this decision and talented author, and the prize, and the very premium, the prize, and the prize. which did not further spread rot of her reputation, which has become several humorous over 9 years. "

Dmitry Olshansky ("Today") : "Having at his disposal a very bad assortment of a short leaf, the jury, nevertheless, made the most reasonable decision." The capture of Ishmael "Mikhail Shishkin - the novel, though, is very professional, made soundly and at a decent level. Everything could be much worse."

Sergey Khvostov ("Gazeta.ru") : "Well, the universal harmony of Russian style and fate, apparently, is better seen from the beautiful far away, in this case from Zurich (and not from the literary Saratov, through which almost all other participants in the short list). A familiar picture for domestic literature."

Irina Kolesnikova ("Country.ru") : "Roman" Ishmael "consists of continuous literary quotes: literal, stylistic, etc. According to the author, the main character is the style that he skillfully manipulates. The main characters of the novel are words that defend each of his own picture of the world. The text consists of flickering plots and situations. At the beginning of the reader. At the beginning of the reader. It may seem that the author writes the biography of the judicial official Alexander Vasilievich, but Shishkin says that he wrote a book about the impossibility of freeing from Russia. "

Arkhip Angelievich (Izvestia): “Emigrant consciousness, permeating its voluminous prose, is slightly notorious, library, slow, multilingual, - apparently, it turned out to be the hearts of the Buker jury of the 2000 model. You can understand them; the corresponding moods in the intellectual environment again arose. let them answer the historical process. "

Andrei Nemzer (“News Time”) : “Not about Shishkin’s personal choice. And not about his vivid novel. Having proved“ Izmail ”, the jury supported the author’s concept. Meanwhile, the poet Oleg Chukhontsev, prose writer Galina Shcherbakova, book publisher Gennady Komarov and film director Valery Todorovsky worked in these very 90s in the very 90s Russia is very friable. Colleagues in the jury, then I'm only happy. "

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Lisa Novikova (Kommersant-Daily): "Mr. Shishkin completely counts on a competent reader-with him, who has passed through the forest of historical stylization, in the final fragment the writer will share his real tragedy. It becomes clear why the novel decays into two unequal parts: the entire fuss of Zatean Mikhail Shishkin in order to try to get rid of his intimate pain. Personally. I am grateful to him for such confidence, although after the “capture” my human sympathy was anesthetic as an aesthetic cold.

“It was our child - in blood and mucus. Covered with fat grease. Blue. Handles, legs twitch, spray flies from them. Nose and ears are pressed. Wet rare hairs, adhering to the crown.

The sister who accepted the child holds out scissors to me:

- Do you want to cut the umbilical cord?

She is thick, twisted. Pulsates. In it, two wiring are visible - red and blue.

I take scissors, cut.

The living is cut softly, but slightly resisting, as if you cut poorly cooked pasta. "