Burattini
7 hrs. 54 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Mikhail Elizarov
Author
Mikhail Elizarov
Narrator
Gennady Smirnov
Narrator
Gennady Smirnov
Description
Mikhail Elizarov is a prose writer, musician, author of the novels “Earth” (National Bestseller award), “The Librarian” (Russian Booker award), “Pasternak” and “Multiplikations,” collections “Fingernails” (shortlist for the Andrei Bely Prize), “We went out for a smoke for 17 years” (prize of the readers’ vote of the NOC award), and “Building Blocks.”
“It would be a mistake to perceive ‘Buratttini’ as purely essayistic writing. What you have here is closer to monologues of characters from an unwritten novel. The characters snap and philosophize, and then do some absurd, provocative things—in a normal novel, that would be called the plot. The actions themselves are, as it were, ‘off-screen,’ so the reader is invited to do them independently, as they read.” (Mikhail Elizarov)
“Buratttini is an upbeat wooden creature: a leader and speaker, a man of action, a cynic who despises education and decadence. For him, there is no such thing as a woman—and yet he is the embodiment of ‘potency.’ The eternally erect nose of Buratttini is a symbol of his masculine viability. Buratttini is brave, cheerful, unscrupulous—and at the same time irresistibly charming.”
“It would be a mistake to perceive ‘Buratttini’ as purely essayistic writing. What you have here is closer to monologues of characters from an unwritten novel. The characters snap and philosophize, and then do some absurd, provocative things—in a normal novel, that would be called the plot. The actions themselves are, as it were, ‘off-screen,’ so the reader is invited to do them independently, as they read.” (Mikhail Elizarov)
“Buratttini is an upbeat wooden creature: a leader and speaker, a man of action, a cynic who despises education and decadence. For him, there is no such thing as a woman—and yet he is the embodiment of ‘potency.’ The eternally erect nose of Buratttini is a symbol of his masculine viability. Buratttini is brave, cheerful, unscrupulous—and at the same time irresistibly charming.”
