The fate of Oleg Zakutarov, the hero of Negative, is typical of his generation: in the 90s he was a political strategist, in the 70s he was a dissident, even earlier he was an “internal emigrant” who went into private life, just not to participate in public life.
The fate of Oleg Zakutarov, the hero of Negative, is typical of his generation: in the 90s he was a political strategist, in the 70s he was a dissident, even earlier he was an “internal emigrant” who went into private life, just not to participate in public life. However, the main charm of Timofeev’s prose is not in recreating the typical, but in the amazing ability to smooth out the feeling of the fragmentation of history into «before» and «after» (revolution, perestroika …) and create in the reader a sense of the reliability of the present and its rootedness in the past.
Hummingbird, 2006
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