The Veil

6 hrs. 37 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Vladimir Sotnikov

Narrator Nadezhda Vinokurova

Description

This book introduces us to an author who is interesting in many ways. Sotskov continues to stubbornly write prose in exactly the sense developed by Russian classics—meaning artistic prose. After Yuri Kazakov, the desire for such a tradition only weakened, and in the present generation it has almost run out. So Sotskov is, in a way, a “fragment” of the past in the future—which has always been difficult, and yet also promising. His efforts, for the most part, resolve the artificial artistic contradiction between the so-called “town dwellers” and “country people.” Sotskov does not set himself against culture—he is grounded in it. Being rural by origin, experience, and subject matter, Sotskov fully moves away from nostalgic depiction of everyday life and, as a person of a new generation, writes not just the estrangement of the rural person due to the city (though of course that’s part of it), but writes about the modern person in a much broader and more general sense. This is a very important effort.