Incident at the Junction Station
12 hrs. 29 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Alexey Varlamov
Author
Alexey Varlamov
Narrator
Stanislav Ivanov
Narrator
Stanislav Ivanov
Description
The winner of the «Big Book» Alexey Varlamov reflects on the Russian character—on how, along winding paths, a person sometimes saves himself thanks to those he encounters along the way.
Alexey Varlamov is a prose writer and philologist, a researcher of 20th-century Russian literature, the recipient of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize and the «Big Book» award.
«An Incident at a Junction Station» is not just a collection of short stories, but an entire territory of Russian life, where, on a single line, «trains» from different eras unexpectedly come together: from a pre-revolutionary exile to the turbulent nineties. A mute wanderer, a bought-and-paid-for journalist, the merchant’s daughter deprived of her voice, and a professor ready to trade the Ghent Altarpiece for a cheap passion—these heroes never choose a direct route. They wander through other people’s cities, vanish in the steppe, freeze at random halts, and find shelter where they least expected it.
Varlamov shows how terrifying and, at the same time, beautiful it is to remain human in an age when «everything has been mixed up» and the usual supports have disappeared—both faith and disbelief. This is a piercing prose, almost physically tangible, about the Russian make-up of the soul in the tradition of Leskov, Bunin, and Shukshin, where the only truly authentic mystery becomes the bond between people.
Alexey Varlamov is a prose writer and philologist, a researcher of 20th-century Russian literature, the recipient of the Alexander Solzhenitsyn Prize and the «Big Book» award.
«An Incident at a Junction Station» is not just a collection of short stories, but an entire territory of Russian life, where, on a single line, «trains» from different eras unexpectedly come together: from a pre-revolutionary exile to the turbulent nineties. A mute wanderer, a bought-and-paid-for journalist, the merchant’s daughter deprived of her voice, and a professor ready to trade the Ghent Altarpiece for a cheap passion—these heroes never choose a direct route. They wander through other people’s cities, vanish in the steppe, freeze at random halts, and find shelter where they least expected it.
Varlamov shows how terrifying and, at the same time, beautiful it is to remain human in an age when «everything has been mixed up» and the usual supports have disappeared—both faith and disbelief. This is a piercing prose, almost physically tangible, about the Russian make-up of the soul in the tradition of Leskov, Bunin, and Shukshin, where the only truly authentic mystery becomes the bond between people.
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