Sasha Sokolov — the legendary author of «School for Fools», a mysterious inhabitant of the world who answers e-mail with scanned letters written by a pen — after many years of silence, released the first fiction book.
Sasha Sokolov — the legendary author of «School for Fools», a mysterious inhabitant of the world who answers e-mail with scanned letters written by a pen — after many years of silence, released the first fiction book. This is «proesia», three poems written in free verse, with a barely visible plot. Much more than the plot, our «prosopoet» is occupied by speech, the language in which Pushkin and Bunin wrote. Sasha Sokolov crumples, rubs words, idioms, metaphors, archaisms in his fingers, inhales and in some incredible way conveys the finest aromas exhaled at the same time, demonstrating once again — the power of the word, interjection, pause is boundless: “with the voices of people who subtly feel the beauty of the moment: look , the end of the quote coincided with the end of darkness, it dawned, it was fast dawning … «
OGI, 268 p.
Maya Kucherskaya