Petrovy v grippe i vokrug nego - Sal'nikov A.B.

Alexey Salnikov was born in 1978 in Tartu. Published in the almanac "Babylon", magazines "Air," "Ural," "Volga." He is the author of three poetry collections. Winner of the "LiteratourGengen" Award (2005), a finalist of the "Big Book" and "NOS". He lives in Yekaterinburg. "Salnikov writes like, perhaps, no one else today, namely - fresh as the first day of creation. At every step, he knocks the reader's soil out from under his feet, shakes the vestibular apparatus trained by years of reading "normal" books. All the random signs, met by the flu-flu-buying Petrov in their painful half-wander, are assembled into a slender structure without a single superfluous detail. Of all the cracks begins to ooze such a cheerful htone and infernal creepy that Mamleev and Gorchev amicably start dancing, and Gogol and Bulgakov applaud. Striking, one-of-a-kind language, grounded and tangible material world and truly magical flickering ambiguity (whether everything that happens in the novel - flu hallucinations of the three Petrovs, or the truth is exposed for a moment witchcraft's from the world) - no matter how you look, an outstanding text and a real reader's holiday." Galina Jozefovich