Текст

Studentu filfaka MGU Ilʹe Gori͡unovu molodoĭ polit͡seĭskiĭ operativnik podbrasyvaet narkotiki, chtoby nakazatʹ za stroptivostʹ. Otbyv semiletniĭ srok, Ilʹi͡a khochet prosto vernutʹsi͡a k normalʹnoĭ zhizni - no vmesto ėtogo primeri͡aet na sebi͡a zhiznʹ cheloveka, kotoryĭ iskalechil emu sudʹbu...'Tekst' - ėto roman o segodni͡ashneĭ Moskve, o segodni͡ashneĭ Rossii, o kazhdom iz nas. O nashem bespravii pered 'organami', o nasheĭ zavisimosti ot mobilʹnykh, o mesti i o proshchenii, o nevozmozhnoĭ li͡ubvi i nesbytochnykh mechtakh. Nastoi͡ashchiĭ novyĭ russkiĭ roman, kotorogo ne poi͡avli͡alosʹ tak davno.Vsego cherez dva goda posle vykhoda v svet 'Tekst' uzhe pereveden bolee chem na 20 i͡azykov mira, frant͡suzskai͡a i nemet͡skai͡a pressa sravnivai͡ut roman s 'Prestupleniem i nakazaniem', v Moskovskom teatre Ermolovoĭ po nemu postavlen idushchiĭ s anshlagami spektaklʹ i nedavno sni͡at filʹm s glavnymi molodymi zvezdami rossiĭskogo kino.

Ilya Goryunov, a student of the Moscow state University faculty of Philology, is given drugs by a young police operative to punish him for his obstinacy. After serving a seven-year sentence, Ilya just wants to return to normal life — but instead tries on the life of the man who crippled his fate...'Text' is a novel about today's Moscow, about today's Russia, about each of us. About our disenfranchisement before the 'organs', about our dependence on mobile phones, about revenge and forgiveness, about impossible love and impossible dreams. A real new Russian novel that hasn't appeared in so long.Just two years after its release, 'text' has already been translated into more than 20 languages, the French and German press compare the novel to 'Crime and punishment', a sold-out performance was staged at the Yermolova theater in Moscow, and a film was recently made with the main young stars of Russian cinema.