Чертёж Ньютона

Aleksandr Ilichevskiĭ (r. 1970) - prozaik i poėt, laureat premiĭ "Russkiĭ Buker" ("Matiss") i "Bolʹshai͡a kniga" ("Pers"). Geroĭ ego novogo romana "Chertëzh Nʹi͡utona" sovershaet tri bolʹshikh puteshestvii͡a: derzha putʹ v amerikanskui͡u religioznui͡u sektu, peresekaet na mashine pustyni͡u Nevada, vsmatrivaetsi͡a v eë landshaft, nochuet v zakholustnykh gorodkakh; razbiraet nasledie zabroshennoĭ sovetskoĭ laboratorii na Pamire, sredi gor i mestnykh zhiteleĭ s ikh nekhitrym bytom i glubokimi verovanii͡ami; ishchet v Ierusalime ott͡sa - izvestnogo poėta, mechtateli͡a, brodi͡agu, kumira tvorcheskikh tusovok i znatoka drevneĭ istorii Svi͡atoĭ Zemli… "Chertëzh Nʹi͡utona" - kniga s obshirnoĭ, podrobnoĭ i krasochnoĭ geografieĭ: Nevada, Pamir, Ierusalim… Glavnyĭ geroĭ - fizik, zanimai͡ushchiĭsi͡a "problemoĭ tëmnoĭ materii", - ishchet propavshego ott͡sa. Ėtot poisk v bolee shirokom smysle oborachivaetsi͡a metaforicheskoĭ vstrecheĭ s utrachennym Bogom ili zhe bogom-s-malenʹkoĭ-bukvy - nekoĭ magistralʹnoĭ ideeĭ, v kotorui͡u ty verishʹ. I na samom dele, nevazhno, nauka ėto ili religii͡a. Kak neredko govoril katolicheskiĭ svi͡atoĭ padre Pio svoim dukhovnym deti͡am, zhalovavshimsi͡a na bogoostavlennostʹ: "Syn moĭ, ty Emu slishkom dorogo oboshëlsi͡a dli͡a togo, chtoby On tebi͡a ostavil". Esli razobratʹsi͡a, v korne ėtogo utverzhdenii͡a - chistai͡a fizika. (Sergeĭ Kumysh, "RBK STILʹ")

Alexander Ilichevsky (b. 1970) - novelist and poet, winner of the Russian Booker prize (Matisse) and the Big book (Persian). The hero of his new novel "Newton's Drawing" makes three big trips: going to an American religious sect, crosses the Nevada desert by car, looks at its landscape, spends the night in backwoods towns; analyzes the legacy of an abandoned Soviet laboratory in the Pamirs, among the mountains and local residents with their simple life and deep beliefs; searches in Jerusalem for his father — a famous poet, dreamer, tramp, idol of creative parties and expert in the ancient history of the Holy Land... extensive, detailed and colorful geography: Nevada, Pamir, Jerusalem... the main character — a physicist who deals with the "problem of dark matter" — is looking for a missing father. This search, in a broader sense, turns out to be a metaphorical encounter with a lost God, or a God-with-a-small — letter-some main idea that you believe in. And in fact, it doesn't matter if it's science or religion. As the Catholic Saint Padre PIO often said to his spiritual children, who complained of being abandoned by God: "my Son, you have cost Him too much to leave you." If you look at the root of this statement-pure physics. (Sergey Kumysh, RBC STYLE»)