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Ex libris Zakhara Prilepin
"I believed that the" Quiet Don "wrote Sholokhov." Writer Zakhar Prilepin with addiction and surprise reads books of his contemporaries 
In Russian literature, a paradoxical thing happened: in the 90s, not all writers could earn their bread with literary work, and some went into related professions, including the sphere of political PR and in general in politics. Now they are returning to literature with this experience. 
2. Yuri Kozlov , who worked for several years in the press service of the Federation Council, the author of the "Postal Pisces", wrote the novel "Always" , while not published, I read it in the manuscript. It describes how human consciousness changes. Young people, with enthusiasm and surprise, perceived perestroika and liberal-bourgeois revolution in Russia, in maturity came to paradoxical conclusions about the present and future of Russia, about liberalism. And if Terekhov is a stylist, virtuoso of the Russian language, then Yuri Kozlov is a thinker, a person who systematizes the ideological space, lays everything carefully on shelves.
3. In the “information” of the novel Senchin , the action takes place in the zero years, the hero is a young man who has complex relations with women. In theory, Roman Senchin is a writer not quite my plan, for me the most important thing in literature is a language, and his main thing is not in the field of language. But only at first glance it seems that the book is written uncomplicated. Senchin manages to achieve an amazing sense of depth, immersion in reality. In addition, as we recall from Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, the best description of life and being is given through a love tragedy. In fact, Senchin is engaged in the same thing - he wrote a gender novel, but there are absolutely wonderful modern types: men, women, young people - with all the dislocations of their chaotic consciousness.
4. The book of Jonathan Littela “Forestry” was written by an American of French origin with Jewish blood. The novel on behalf of the SS, who is fighting in Russia. Such a completely crazy conglomerate. The author’s comprehension of that reality, which has already become historical, is inexplicably even from the point of view of logic. I understand that he read two or three thousand books on this subject and thousands of documents, that he speaks the Russian language, that he was a military correspondent in Chechnya and saw how the Russians are fighting. But even all this does not give an explanation of how such a novel can be written that there is a firm feeling that he had stolen the manuscript of the real SS. In the end, I received another confirmation for myself that Sholokhov wrote “Quiet Don”, because I see: people who are not even directly related to events can make such a clear cast from reality, which is sometimes not allowed to recreate eyewitnesses.
5. The chosen lyrics of Boris Ryzhekh “in the quarters of the distant and sad” were published. Red is my favorite poet along with Yesenin, Brodsky and Yuri Kuznetsov. I love the redhead with my whole being, he physically turns me over, squeezes my whole soul out of me. Amazing musicality, a wonderful depth and, which is important to me, as a person of famous beliefs, the redhead grew during perestroika and, oddly enough,, unlike most writers of that time, in any poem, he has never been taking scores with the Soviet government, he is engaged in completely other things. Somehow, he turned out to be above all that was happening. Just this whole world, he gave this sense of God -state as accurately like no one. After the redhead, it’s scary to live, but I want to live.