Chagin

Evgeny Vodolazkin is the author of the novels "Lavra", "Aviator", "Soloviev and Laryonov", "Brisbane", "The Justification of the Island", and the short prose collections "Go Without Fear" and "The Language Tool", winner of the "Big Book", "Clear Glade", and "Book... of the Year" awards. His books have been translated into many languages. Isidor Chagin can memorize texts of any complexity and retain them in memory for as long as he likes. His phenomenal abilities become a heavy burden for the hero, as Chagin is deprived of simple human joy - forgetting. Everything he touches becomes, literally, unforgettable. Every great gift is a disturbance of harmony. Memory needs oblivion, word - silence, and fantasy - reality. In life, they are intertwined as tightly as the tragic and comic in the novels of Evgeny Vodolazkin. The novel "Chagin" is no exception. Among its characters are Heinrich Schliemann and Daniel Defoe, secret agents, archivists, and masters of ceremonies, as well as a unique author's style.