Атлас, составленный небом

"Atlas, sostavlennyĭ nebom" - pervyĭ roman Gorana Petrovich, napisannyĭ v dukhe magicheskogo realizma, vypushchennyĭ v 1993 godu.V predmestʹe odnogo serbskogo gorodka vozvyshaetsi͡a strannyĭ dom. V otlichie ot okruzhai͡ushchikh ego stroeniĭ, krytykh cherepit͡seĭ, krysheĭ emu sluzhit beskonechnostʹ neba. Pod stolʹ prekrasnoĭ senʹi͡u obitai͡ut neobychnye postoi͡alʹt͡sy - oni mogut poĭmatʹ lunnyĭ svet, stri͡akhnutʹ s persikovogo dereva brillianty ili magieĭ pesni pustitʹ sozvezdii͡a v pli͡as. Kazhdyĭ, kto otvazhilsi͡a postuchatʹ v dverʹ sego divnogo doma, stolknetsi͡a s dosele neizvedannoĭ i prekrasnoĭ Vselennoĭ…Samai͡a dobrai͡a kniga. Sbornik chuvstv, mysleĭ, sostoi͡aniĭ. Atlas iz metafor i nedoskazannosti. Snachala kazhetsi͡a fantasmagorieĭ, a potom ponimaeshʹ, chto ėto prosto takai͡a realʹnostʹ, i uzhe ne mozheshʹ ostanovitʹsi͡a. Volshebnyĭ mir magicheskogo realizma udivli͡aet i pogloshchaet, i net zhelanii͡a iz nego vozvrashchatʹsi͡a.Kniga-zagadka, kniga-klad. A prochitaeshʹ ee, i mir stanet i͡arche, i bolee chelovechnym staneshʹ sam. I okazyvaetsi͡a, chto mozhno ostavatʹsi͡a samim soboĭ, mechtatʹ i bytʹ schastlivym, ne ogli͡adyvai͡asʹ ne mnenie drugikh.Li͡ubitelʹ skazok naĭdet v ėtoĭ knige umili͡ai͡ushchui͡u i zabavnui͡u istorii͡u o zhizni neobychnykh sushchestv, polnui͡u samykh raznykh personazheĭ iz narodnogo folʹklora. V neĭ perepletenie serbskoĭ i russkoĭ mifologii.T͡Senitelʹ aforisticheskogo i͡azyka obnaruzhit massu genialʹnykh t͡sitat, kazhdai͡a iz kotorykh imeet polnoe pravo bytʹ vygravirovannoĭ zolotymi bukvami v annalakh chelovecheskoĭ pami͡ati.Znatok igry voobrazhenii͡a uvidit psikhodelicheskie motivy, rasshiri͡ai͡ushchie soznanie.Neobychnai͡a kniga dostavit mnozhestvo udovolʹstviĭ liricheskim i͡umorom i poėticheskoĭ fantazieĭ.Serbskiĭ magicheskiĭ realizm.Kniga G. Petrovicha blizka k tvorchestvu Pavicha, Borkhesa, Markesa, Kortasara, Ėko, Gofmana... Tem, kto li͡ubit takoĭ nabor smyslovykh istoriĭ, vesʹma proizvolʹnykh po si͡uzhetu, mozhno rekomendovatʹ znakomstvo s ėtoĭ knigoĭ.

Atlas Made by Heaven is Goran Petrovich's first novel written in the spirit of magical realism, released in 1993.There is a strange house on the outskirts of a Serbian town. Unlike the tiled buildings surrounding it, it is roofed by the infinity of the sky. Unusual guests live under such a beautiful shade — they can catch the moonlight, shake diamonds from a peach tree, or dance constellations with the magic of a song. Anyone who dares to knock on the door of this wonderful house will encounter a hitherto unexplored and beautiful universe.…The kindest book. A collection of feelings, thoughts, and states. An atlas of metaphors and understatement. At first it seems like a phantasmagoria, and then you realize that it's just such a reality, and you can't stop. The magical world of magical realism surprises and absorbs, and there is no desire to return from it.The book is a mystery, the book is a treasure. And if you read it, the world will become brighter, and you will become more human yourself. And it turns out that you can remain yourself, dream and be happy, without looking back at the opinions of others.A lover of fairy tales will find in this book a touching and funny story about the life of unusual creatures, full of a variety of characters from folk folklore. It is an interweaving of Serbian and Russian mythology.A connoisseur of aphoristic language will discover a lot of brilliant quotations, each of which has every right to be engraved in golden letters in the annals of human memory.A connoisseur of the game of imagination will see psychedelic motifs that expand consciousness.An unusual book will bring a lot of pleasure with lyrical humor and poetic fantasy.Serbian magical realism.G. Petrovich's book is close to the works of Pavich, Borges, Marquez, Cortazar, Eco, Hoffman... For those who like such a set of semantic stories, which are very arbitrary in plot, we can recommend reading this book.