Venedikt Erofeev - "Moscow-Petushki" and "Notes of a psychopath". Gift book bound in leather

A philosophical parable alongside youthful notes finally published in 2004

"Moscow-Petushki" is a philosophical parable, a work out of time. erofeev created in the book his world, his universe, in the center of which is man, " man as the meeting place of all planes of existence." First appeared on the pages of the magazine "Sobriety and Culture", the poem" Moscow-Petushki " became a real revelation for readers and was later translated into many languages of the world. "In the universe of Yerofeyev there is no common sense, logic, there is no law, order. If you look at it from the outside, it will remain misunderstood. Only by engaging in Yerofeyev's poetics, only by switching to his surreal language, only by becoming one of the characters, and eventually a co-author, can the reader feel the ideological tension of the philosophical-religious dialogue conducted by"leap people". but even then the reader will be able to recognize the yerofeyev picture of the world, but not understand it. after all, the truth cannot be obtained at second hand" (a. genis).

"Notes of a psychopath" (1956-1958), started at the age of seventeen, "the most voluminous and ridiculous of all written". For a long time, the "Notes "were not published, while in his interviews Yerofeyev again and again stressed that he considered this text worthy of publication, but hardly believed in such a possibility, since the" Notes "are full of"unexpected lexical turns, to put it mildly." And indeed, the full, carefully verified text of "Notes of a psychopath" was published only in 2004. "when i was expelled from moscow state university," venedikt yerofeyev said in an interview, "i was already writing purely youthful" notes of a psychopath." classmates, those who read, said that this is impossible, that it is impossible to write like this. "You,...