Планета мистера Заммлера

Master korotkoĭ frazy i krupnoĭ formy…' - takov Sol Bellou, kotorogo neodnokratno nazyvali samym znachitelʹnym angloi͡azychnym pisatelem vtoroĭ poloviny XX veka. Ego talant otmechen vyssheĭ literaturnoĭ nagradoĭ SShA - Pulitt͡serovskoĭ premieĭ i vyssheĭ literaturnoĭ premieĭ mira - Nobelevskoĭ. V zhurnale 'Vanity Fair' spravedlivo napisali: 'Bellou - naibolee vydai͡ushchiĭsi͡a amerikanskiĭ prozaik nari͡adu s Folknerom'. V proshlom Artura Zammlera bylo mnogoe - uzhasy Kholokosta, partizanskiĭ otri͡ad, udivitelʹnoe vossoedinenie so spasennoĭ katolicheskimi monakhini͡ami docherʹi͡u, ėmigrat͡sii͡a v SShA. . . a teperʹ on prosto blagoobraznyĭ starik, kotoryĭ zhivet na Mankhėttene i skrashivaet svoĭ dosug chteniem filosofskikh knig i razmyshli͡aet o pereselenii zemli͡an na drugie planety. Odnako v ėto razmerenno-spokoĭnoe sushchestvovanie snova i snova vryvaetsi͡a stremitelʹnyĭ i buĭnyĭ Nʹi͡u-Ĭork kont͡sa 60-kh - s ego buntui͡ushchim studenchestvom i ulichnym kriminalom, podpolʹnymi abortami, boĭkimi paparat͡st͡si, aktualʹnymi khudozhnikami, 'svobodnoĭ li͡ubovʹi͡u' i prochim shumnym, tragikomicheskim karnavalom li͡udskikh strasteĭ…

A master of short phrases and large forms...' - this is Saul Bellow, who has repeatedly been called the most significant English-language writer of the second half of the 20th century. His talent has been recognized with the highest literary award in the USA - the Pulitzer Prize and the highest literary prize in the world - the Nobel. Vanity Fair magazine rightly wrote: "Bellow is the most outstanding American novelist along with Faulkner." Arthur Zammler had a lot in his past - the horrors of the Holocaust, a partisan detachment, an amazing reunion with his daughter saved by Catholic nuns, emigration to the United States ... and now he's just a good-looking old man who lives in Manhattan and brightens up his leisure time by reading philosophical books and thinking about the resettlement of earthlings to other planets. However, the rapid and violent New York of the late 60s bursts into this measured and calm existence again and again - with its rebellious students and street crime, underground abortions, glib paparazzi, topical artists, "free love" and other noisy, tragicomic carnival of human passions.…