Yevgeny Vodolazkin – prose writer, philologist. Author of the bestseller "Lavr" and the elegant historical fiction "Solovyov and Laryonov." In Russia, he is called the "Russian Umberto Eco," and in America, after the release of "Lavr" in English, the "Russian...
Marquez." It is enough for him to be himself. Vodolazkin's works have been translated into many foreign languages. The hero of the new novel "Aviator" is a man in a state of tabula rasa: awakening one day in a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself – neither his name, nor who he is, nor where he is. In hopes of restoring the history of his life, he begins to record the memories that come to him, fragmentary and chaotic: Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century, summer childhood in Siverskaya and Alushta, gymnasium and first love, the revolution of 1917, infatuation with aviation, Solovki... But how can he remember the details of domestic life, phrases, smells, sounds of that time so accurately, if the calendar shows 1999?..
Yevgeny Vodolazkin – prose writer, philologist. Author of the bestseller "Lavr" and the elegant historical fiction "Solovyov and Laryonov." In Russia, he is called the "Russian Umberto Eco," and in America, after the release of "Lavr" in English, the "Russian Marquez." It is enough for him to be himself. Vodolazkin's works have been translated into many foreign languages. The hero of the new novel "Aviator" is a man in a state of tabula rasa: awakening one day in a hospital bed, he realizes that he knows absolutely nothing about himself – neither his name, nor who he is, nor where he is. In hopes of restoring the history of his life, he begins to record the memories that come to him, fragmentary and chaotic: Petersburg at the beginning of the 20th century, summer childhood in Siverskaya and Alushta, gymnasium and first love, the revolution of 1917, infatuation with aviation, Solovki... But how can he remember the details of domestic life, phrases, smells, sounds of that time so accurately, if the calendar shows 1999?..
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