Legends and Myths of the Ancient Sovok
8 hrs. 34 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Aleksey Didurov
Author
Aleksey Didurov
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Narrator
Alexey Bagdasarov
Description
Moscow of the 1950s, 60s, 70s… Much of what is happening today with Russia and with us was taking shape and ripening on the crooked and lumpy Moscow streets, in echoing lanes, and deep inside the courtyard passage labyrinths of the USSR capital. Fates, plots, people, character types and figures of the adventurous, tragicomic theater of city life—these are the objects of Alexei Didurov’s authorial gaze. He wrote this book, in which, despite the abundance of its most vivid performers, the main character is still the author’s beloved Moscow—Moscow that raised in him both a sense of humor and the ability to feel compassion, and a special, epic approach to fact, detail, event, and to the very language—to the word itself. A life in which, at city prices, sometimes even a moment costs centuries, and a century is shorter than a blink…
“Didurov wrote a grandiose self-commentary on his poetry and his life—‘Ogonyok’ couldn’t keep up with printing the continuations, and Didurov’s peers and fellow citizens couldn’t get enough of this dense, precise, compact prose, which preserved and transformed the realities of their everyday existence. The text proved that life was real. Like any great book, the book wrote itself.
Moscow—with its underground rivers, deep-dwelling personalities, green courtyards, basketball courts, school terror, bandit romance, all the trappings of Didurov’s childhood, which seems like paradise only to those who lived in that hell and didn’t know anything else—at last burst onto the page… and spoke in full voice.”
Dmitry Bykov, from the foreword to the book “Legends and Myths of Ancient Ussr”
“Didurov wrote a grandiose self-commentary on his poetry and his life—‘Ogonyok’ couldn’t keep up with printing the continuations, and Didurov’s peers and fellow citizens couldn’t get enough of this dense, precise, compact prose, which preserved and transformed the realities of their everyday existence. The text proved that life was real. Like any great book, the book wrote itself.
Moscow—with its underground rivers, deep-dwelling personalities, green courtyards, basketball courts, school terror, bandit romance, all the trappings of Didurov’s childhood, which seems like paradise only to those who lived in that hell and didn’t know anything else—at last burst onto the page… and spoke in full voice.”
Dmitry Bykov, from the foreword to the book “Legends and Myths of Ancient Ussr”
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