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Vpervye na russkom - noveĭshee sochinenie laureata Bukerovskoĭ premii Dzhuliana Barnsa, avtora takikh mezhdunarodnykh bestsellerov, kak "Anglii͡a, Anglii͡a", "Popugaĭ Flobera", "Li͡ubovʹ i tak dalee", "Predchuvstvie kont͡sa" i mnogikh drugikh. Na ėtot raz "odnoznachno samyĭ izi͡ashchnyĭ stilist i samyĭ nepredskazuemyĭ master vsekh myslimykh literaturnykh form" obrashchaetsi͡a k zhizni Dmitrii͡a Shostakovicha, prichem v i͡ubileĭnyĭ god: v senti͡abre 2016-go vesʹ mir budet otmechatʹ 110 let so dni͡a rozhdenii͡a velikogo russkogo kompozitora. Vprochem, napisanie belletrizovannoĭ biografii volnuet Barnsa menʹshe vsego, i metit on gorazdo vyshe: imei͡a kak khudozhnik lit͡senzii͡u na li͡ubye fantazii, vli͡ublennyĭ v russkui͡u literaturu i otlichno vladei͡a kontekstom, on vystraivaet svoe sooruzhenie na zybkoĭ pochve sovetskoĭ istorii, polnoĭ umolchanii͡a i polupravd…

For the first time in Russian — the latest composition of the Booker prize, Julian Barnes, author of such international bestsellers as "England, England", "Flaubert's Parrot", "Love etc.", "a presentiment of the end" and many others. At this time, "by far the most elegant stylist and the most unpredictable master of all conceivable literary forms" refers to the life of Dmitry Shostakovich, and in the anniversary year in September of 2016 the world will mark 110 years since the birth of the great Russian composer. However, writing a fictionalized biography of Barnes care the least, and he is aiming much higher: as an artist having a license for any fancy, in love with Russian literature and is owning context, he builds his building on shaky ground in Soviet history, full of omissions and half-truths...