Bibliotekar' - Elizarov Mikhail

Mikhail Elizarov is the author of the novels "Earth", "Pasternak" and "Multiki" (shortlist of the "National Bestseller" award), collections of short stories "Nails" (shortlist of the Andrei White Prize), "We went out to smoke for 17 years" (the prize of reader voting of the "NOS").
"Librarian" is a novel that won the Russian Booker Prize and generated scandals and discussions in society; a novel about sacred texts - but without the "book dust" of Borges and Eco: books here are used for a direct archetypal purpose - straightened into metal, they crush weak cranial boxes, break fates, call on a fire and invade the fabric of the universe.
... Boring production novels by all the forgotten Soviet writer Gromov years after his death discover magical properties: everyone is able to endow the reader with supernatural powers. It is important not only the text, but also the printing paint and paper; for rarities hunt several sects of bibliophiles, for the right to read the Book have to fight with an axe in his hand ...
"Elizarov and Sorokin work on the same material, but Sorokin consciously travesties and parodies this material (in the spirit of Sots Art), while Elizarov takes it seriously."
(Victor Toporov).