На Черной горе

Bri͡us Chatvin - izvestnyĭ britanskiĭ pisatelʹ, laureat mnogikh prestizhnykh premiĭ, odin iz samykh vlii͡atelʹnykh avtorov svoego vremeni. V nastoi͡ashchee izdanie voshli dva ego blesti͡ashchikh romana: "Na Chernoĭ gore" i "Vit͡se-korolʹ Uidy". "Na Chernoĭ gore" - ėto ėpichnai͡a istorii͡a dvukh bliznet͡sov, prozhivai͡ushchikh na ferme nepodaleku ot granit͡sy mezhdu Anglieĭ i Uėlʹsom. Za svoi vosemʹdesi͡at let oni pochti ne pokidali tesnyĭ mirok, ogranichennyĭ blizhaĭshimi gorodkami i fermami, odnako v ikh zhizni bylo vse, chto otpushcheno kazhdomu cheloveku na ėtoĭ zemle: li͡ubovʹ i zhestokostʹ, nerazdelennai͡a strastʹ i predatelʹstvo, nezhnai͡a druzhba i mechty o dalʹnikh stranakh. . . Roman "Na Chernoĭ gore" prines Bri͡usu Chatvinu pochetnui͡u Memorialʹnui͡u premii͡u Dzheĭmsa Teĭta Blėka, a v 1988 godu byl ėkranizirovan rezhisserom Ėndri͡u Grivom. "Vit͡se-korolʹ Uidy" - strastnyĭ, vizionerskiĭ roman, pylai͡ushchiĭ vsemi t͡svetami afrikanskogo kontinenta (nedarom ego neodnokratno sravnivali s "Serdt͡sem tʹmy" Dzhozefa Konrada; inye kritiki upominali "chernui͡u magii͡u voobrazhenii͡a"). Osnovannai͡a na realʹnykh sobytii͡akh istorii͡a brazilʹskogo iskateli͡a prikli͡ucheniĭ Fransishku Manuėla da Silʹvy, kotoryĭ otpravilsi͡a v pechalʹno izvestnui͡u Dagomei͡u (nyne Benin), chtoby statʹ samym mogushchestvennym rabotorgovt͡sem na kontinente. Odnako Chernyĭ kontinent ne znaet poshchady - ni k chuzhezemt͡sam, ni k sobstvennym deti͡am, i Fransishku Manuėl stanovitsi͡a eshche odnoĭ zhertvoĭ v lipkikh seti͡akh Nevolʹnichʹego berega… V 1987 godu roman byl ėkranizirovan rezhisserom Vernerom Khert͡segom pod nazvaniem "Zelenai͡a Kobra" (glavnui͡u rolʹ v filʹme ispolnil Klaus Kinski). Oba romana vykhodi͡at na russkom i͡azyke vpervye!

Bruce Chatwin is a famous British writer, winner of many prestigious awards, and one of the most influential authors of his time. This edition includes two of his brilliant novels: "On the Black Mountain" and "The Viceroy of Ouida." "On Black Mountain" is an epic story of two twins living on a farm near the border between England and Wales. In their eighty years, they had hardly left the small world bounded by the nearest towns and farms, but in their lives there was everything that every person on this earth was allowed: love and cruelty, unrequited passion and betrayal, tender friendship and dreams of distant lands. . . The novel "On Black Mountain" won Bruce Chatwin the James Tate Black Memorial Award, and in 1988 it was adapted into a film directed by Andrew Grieve. "The Viceroy of Ouida" is a passionate, visionary novel, ablaze with all the colors of the African continent (it was not for nothing that it was repeatedly compared to Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness"; other critics mentioned the "black magic of the imagination"). Based on real events, the story of Brazilian adventurer Francisco Manuel da Silva, who traveled to the infamous Dahomey (now Benin) to become the most powerful slave trader on the continent. However, the Black continent knows no mercy — neither to foreigners nor to its own children, and Francisco Manuel becomes another victim in the sticky nets of the Slave Coast ... In 1987, the novel was adapted by director Werner Herzog under the title "The Green Cobra" (starring Klaus Kinski in the film). Both novels are being published in Russian for the first time!