Oleg Zaionchkovsky’s prose can successfully replace an effective antidepressant. Soft benevolent irony and a special view of the world — sober, without the slightest sentimental falsehood, but at the same time purely positive — make Zayonchkovsky’s books not only pleasant reading, but also, as they used to say in the old days, spiritually useful.
Oleg Zaionchkovsky’s prose can successfully replace an effective antidepressant. Soft benevolent irony and a special view of the world — sober, without the slightest sentimental falsehood, but at the same time purely positive — make Zayonchkovsky’s books not only pleasant reading, but also, as they used to say in the old days, spiritually useful. It is extremely difficult to retell his last novel, Happiness is Possible: the stories of different people are united in it, in fact, only by the figure of the narrator — a middle-aged writer, from whom his beloved wife left after many years of marriage. Two solitudes meet in the elevator; a young nurse from the provinces marries a wealthy Muscovite for love; in his old age, an elderly romantic literary critic realizes an unrealizable dream of a Moscow apartment … These and other simple plots might seem small and insignificant if it were not for the amazing warm light that permeates the entire atmosphere of the novel. Every detail, every character of Zaionchkovsky is molded in detail, slowly and with great love, filling any episode with special meaning.
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