Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya suddenly spoke in the first person, which she had never done before in fiction. We have the opportunity to hear about the legendary “Kirov” apartment on Karpovka and the life of the heirs of Russian literature easily and in a neighborly way.
1. First hand. Tatyana Nikitichna Tolstaya suddenly spoke in the first person, which she had never done before in fiction. We have the opportunity to hear about the legendary “Kirov” apartment on Karpovka and the life of the heirs of Russian literature simply and in a neighborly way: Tolstaya is the granddaughter of Alexei Tolstoy and Mikhail Lozinsky, her mother is the goddaughter of Nikolai Gumilyov, and her intonation is exemplary noble – simplicity and dignity .
2. Talent to live. Tolstoy has a special, unlike anyone else talent to live. No matter what lyrical prose she writes, no matter what light worlds she promises, Tolstaya is still detailed, textured and thorough. As if he knows what a normal (not perverted, not tortured, not neurotic) world should be like. They cook jam in it and put ironed shirts in a chest of drawers, wear a scarf because it is snowing, and store firewood in a woodshed, in it a person has the right to life, to comfortable furniture and delicious food, to beautiful things and fabrics that are pleasant to the body , for good weather and safety, and in it shoe stores do not send advertisements in verse. It seems that we hardly know such a world.
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- “Light Worlds” by Tatyana Tolstaya
3. Own truth. The book is not so much autobiographical prose as it pretends to be. Otherwise, from the fact that Tolstaya lived in New York, “a beautiful cast-iron, riveted, lancet, windy anthill that never sleeps,” we will have to deduce that she drowned two people in the December ice hole on the night before Christmas in order to get rid of the unbearable obsessive love – and so what if she invented them!
AST, 480 p.