Аппендикс (Художественная серия)

by Александра Петрова

Город, который знает и любит каждый, даже если никогда в нем не был, связывает между собой восемь основных персонажей. Большинство из них никогда бы не узнали друг друга, если бы не девятый и, пожалуй, главный герой — Рим. На фоне его истории возникает Рим нуара, бездомных, нелегальной иммиграции, кризиса европейской цивилизации, поиска веры и до сих пор не разгаданных политических тайн, ведущих в 60–80 годы прошлого века. Вечный город вмещает судьбы людей, издалека привезших в него память о своем детстве — камертоне, по которому настраивается многоголосье этой прозы. И поскольку она написана поэтом, ее корни — в звуке и языке. Александра Петрова родилась в Ленинграде, авто

Genres: Russia

924 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 29, 2017

Reviews

[Inna · Rating 5 out of 5]

An amazing, beautifully written story about a meeting of the storyteller - a Russian illegal immigrant, and Rome. She lives in a Rome of those whose lives do not matter - illegal immigrants from all over the world, transvestite prostitutes, former revolutionaries. Their Rome opens its heart to a former archaeologist from Romania who turned into a day laborer creates his own small Rome in an excavations area, to a former Russian pharmacist creates for herself a home in the hills, in that Rome a former revolutionary and the storyteller fall in love and he leaves his shadowy existence to confront a former police informer, marginalized intellectuals prove themselves knights willing to risk all for justice, and a Brazilian transvestite prostituting herself to support her young cousin - a genius composer gets murdered by some politically powerful former client. This is a harsh city, a confusing one, a city in which a person might easily get lost and lose years of life without noticing. The city abused all the storyteller's friends, in one way or another. Still, these friends are the city and their generosity of spirit is what creates a community, a place where people are accepted with an open heart. This community exists side by side with the harsh, closed, self-absorbed city of the rich which periodically attacks and destroys some of its members. Still - it is alive and breathing, while the other city is barely so.
What else? There are numerous references to ancient Rome and to the mythology. In fact in the Rome of the storyteller the limits between Rome of today and ancient Rome get blurrier and blurrier and her friends are very much like mythological heroes. After all such heroes could be found only among these socially marginalized, who cannot or would not but heroically insist on their individuality.
The book is very powerful - the powerless people the author depicts are the ones with power of creativity and of individual action and this power is the key element of the story.

[Draugtaur · Rating 2 out of 5]

Очень витиеватый текст, но это в принципе не страшно. Что заставило наконец отказаться от попыток закончить книгу – возникшее к 300 странице ощущение, что автор, пытаясь написать книгу об униженных и оскорблённых, считает себя лучше них. Возможно, я не прав, но отделаться от этого чувства так и не вышло.

[Iya · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must read.