The Aviator
11 hrs. 44 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Eugene Vodolazkin
Author
Eugene Vodolazkin
Narrator
Gennady Smirnov
Narrator
Gennady Smirnov
Description
Yevgeny Vodolazkin is a prose writer and philologist. He is the author of the bestseller “Laurus” and the elegant historical fiction “Solovyov and Larionov.” In Russia he is called the “Russian Umberto Eco,” and in America—after the English-language release of “Laurus”—the “Russian Márquez.” But he only has to be himself. Vodolazkin’s works have been translated into many foreign languages.
The hero of Vodolazkin’s new novel “The Aviator” is a person in a state of tabula rasa: after waking up one day on a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself—not his name, not who he is, not where he is. Hoping to restore the story of his life, he starts writing down the memories that have come to him—fragmentary and chaotic: early 20th-century Petersburg, country childhood in Siverskoye and Alushta, gymnasium and first love, the 1917 revolution, falling in love with aviation, Solovki… But how does he remember so precisely details of everyday life, phrases, smells, and sounds of that time if the calendar says 1999?
The hero of Vodolazkin’s new novel “The Aviator” is a person in a state of tabula rasa: after waking up one day on a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself—not his name, not who he is, not where he is. Hoping to restore the story of his life, he starts writing down the memories that have come to him—fragmentary and chaotic: early 20th-century Petersburg, country childhood in Siverskoye and Alushta, gymnasium and first love, the 1917 revolution, falling in love with aviation, Solovki… But how does he remember so precisely details of everyday life, phrases, smells, and sounds of that time if the calendar says 1999?
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