Tales of All Sorts, Good and Nasty...

3 hrs. 13 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Vovsha Khmelev

Narrator Vyacheslav Gerasimov

Description

Tales of all sorts, both good and nasty, told by native Ural man Vovsha Khmelev, a former factory worker and now a pensioner and janitor, overheard, written down, and published through the zeal of lovers of Russian literature.
Under the pseudonym Vovsha Khmelev hides the remarkable St. Petersburg writer Vladimir Sutyrin, winner of the "Laurel Hat" prize in the "Satire and Humor" section of the magazine Yunost. Vovsha is a filigree-carved archetypal character of a semi-bylina kind. In the modern space of megacities, where the folk character has long dissolved in the streams of migration, the philosopher from the Ural plow, nurtured by the author, can surprise not only with the original style of presentation, but also with paradoxical interpretations of historical events and contemporary social realities. Speaking in simple language about highly complex phenomena, the former factory worker, and now pensioner and janitor, appeals to folk myths, weaving historical facts and personal observations into their pattern. This book begins to play with special colors in audio format. Brilliant work by the performer, who managed not only to realize the writer’s intent, but also to lend genuine force of conviction to theses born of the collective unconscious and snatched by the storyteller directly from the national noosphere. In the voice of Vyacheslav Pavlovich Gerasimov, the real Vovsha speaks to the listener in a measured and sly way, someone with whom, from time to time, one really wants to enter into dialogue, into an unhurried and substantial conversation, full of irony and kindly humor, weaving together the past and the present. So then, allow me to introduce: Vovsha Khmelev — a modern storyteller and wag, wandering with a broom beneath your windows in a shabby earflap hat.