Боги и лишние

Roman, kotoryĭ nachinaetsi͡a kak ostrosot͡sialʹnai͡a satira, a zakanchivaetsi͡a absoli͡utnoĭ fantasmagorieĭ, okhvatyvai͡ushcheĭ i proshloe, i budushchee chelovechestva. S pervykh zhe stranit͡s romana Oleg Radzinskiĭ vvodit odnu iz glavnykh ego tem: temu oshibki v tkani realʹnosti, nu, ili v nashem predstavlenii ob ėtoĭ samoĭ realʹnosti. Tak, glavnyĭ geroĭ Alan Ashotovich Arzumani͡an -vovse ne armi͡anin, familii͡a i otchestvo dostalisʹ emu ot otchima, a imi͡a iznachalʹno dolzhno bylo zvuchatʹ, kak Alen: matʹ, kak i bolʹshinstvo zhenshchin SSSR, byla vli͡ublena v Alena Delona, no registratorsha v zagse pereputala bukvy. Kompanii͡a "Ni͡u Realiti", v kotoroĭ rabotaet st͡senaristom glavnyĭ geroĭ, - tozhe rezulʹtat oshibki, registrirovali eë kak "Nʹi͡u Realiti", no v prot͡sesse bi͡urokraticheskikh utverzhdeniĭ mi͡agkiĭ znak poteri͡alsi͡a. Oshibki, podlogi i namerennye iskazhenii͡a realʹnosti - khleb glavnogo geroi͡a, uspeshnogo sozdateli͡a realiti-shou. Vot tolʹko na ėtot raz situat͡sii͡a okonchatelʹno vyrvetsi͡a iz-pod kontroli͡a. Zagadochnyĭ zakaz ot otechestvennykh oligarkhov obernëtsi͡a krusheniem privychnogo mira, i polnyĭ edkoĭ satiry roman prevratitsi͡a v filosofskui͡u pritchu o tom, chto voobshche takoe realʹnostʹ i kakovo nashe mesto v neĭ.

A novel that begins as an acute social satire, and ends with an absolute phantasmagoria, covering both the past and the future of humanity. From the very first pages of the novel, Oleg Radzinsky introduces one of its main themes: the theme of error in the fabric of reality, well, or in our view of this very reality. So, the main character Alan Ashotovich Arzumanyan is not an Armenian at all, the surname and patronymic came to him from his stepfather, and the name was originally supposed to sound like Alain: the mother, like most women of the USSR, was in love with Alain Delon, but the registrar at the registry office mixed up the letters. The company "Nude Reality", in which the main character works as a screenwriter— is also the result of an error, it was registered as "New Reality", but in the process of bureaucratic approvals, the soft sign was lost. Mistakes, forgeries and intentional distortions of reality are the bread of the main character, the successful creator of a reality show. Only this time the situation will finally get out of control. A mysterious order from domestic oligarchs will turn into the collapse of the familiar world, and a novel full of caustic satire will turn into a philosophical parable about what reality is in general and what our place in it is.