Yeltyshyovs

Roman Senchin is a prose writer, author of the novels "Flooded Zone", "Rain in Paris", collections of prose "The Nineties", "The Naughties", "The Tens". He is a laureate of the "Big Book" and "Clear Skies" awards, a finalist for the "Russian Booker" and "National Bestseller". The novel "Yeltyshyovs", significant for the noughties, long set a special theme for literature: "the ordinary Russian family". Who are they? Are they "the people"? How much are we – the Yeltyshyovs? What lies in our character when hopes almost always turn into collapse, joy into routine, nature into an enemy, and strength into permissiveness? What did these and other Yeltyshyovs do (or not do) for themselves and the country twenty years ago?