Симонов и Цапля: роман

Avtor: Ulybysheva Marina, "Simonov i T͡Sapli͡a: roman": "Simonov i T͡Sapli͡a" - mistiko-filosofskiĭ roman o prikli͡uchenii͡akh Iudy Iskariota, obrechennogo za svoĭ grekh na vechnui͡u zhiznʹ. Neizmenno prebyvai͡ushchiĭ v sorokaletnem vozraste, geroĭ romana skitaetsi͡a po svetu, perezhivai͡a muki odinochestva, li͡ubvi i predatelʹstva. Pytai͡asʹ vyzhitʹ v novykh, chuzhdykh emu vremenakh i stranakh, on uchitsi͡a i uchit, vstrechaetsi͡a i rasstaetsi͡a, vli͡ubli͡aetsi͡a i teri͡aet blizkikh. Ego sovremenniki ukhodi͡at v nebytie, a on ostaetsi͡a i prodolzhaet svoi͡u beskonechnui͡u zhiznʹ, muchitelʹnui͡u i polnui͡u ti͡azhelykh ispytaniĭ, no ne lishennui͡u ėpizodicheskikh probleskov schastʹi͡a. Sudʹba geroi͡a okazyvaetsi͡a tesno svi͡azana s tainstvennym artefaktom - serebri͡anoĭ statuėtkoĭ t͡sapli: v neĭ on nakhodit zavet ob osvobozhdenii ot svoego prokli͡atii͡a. Sledui͡a ėtomu zavetu, geroĭ v techenie vekov znakomitsi͡a s tremi͡a personazhami, kotorye pronikai͡utsi͡a k nemu iskrenneĭ li͡ubovʹi͡u, no v kont͡se kont͡sov predai͡ut ego, kazhdyĭ - po svoeĭ prichine. Molodai͡a vaskonka, vovlechennai͡a v razgorevshui͡usi͡a v VIII veke voĭnu baskov s frankami; oderzhimyĭ iskusstvom i tvorchestvom angliĭskiĭ khudozhnik kont͡sa XVI veka; muchimai͡a neschastnoĭ li͡ubovʹi͡u leningradskai͡a aspirantka kont͡sa 1980-kh godov - vse oni igrai͡ut kli͡uchevui͡u rolʹ v vypolnenii geroem zadanii͡a, sformulirovannogo v iskupitelʹnom pergamente. Avtor masterski perepletaet zhanry istoricheskogo romana, filosofskogo detektiva i misticheskoĭ pritchi, raskryvai͡a tragedii͡u bessmertii͡a i problematiku vechnoĭ zhizni, a takzhe temy predatelʹstva, dukhovnogo poiska, oderzhimosti mestʹi͡u, iskusstvom i naukoĭ.

Author: Marina Smybysheva, "Simonov and the Heron: a novel": "Simonov and the Heron" is a mystical and philosophical novel about the adventures of Judas Iscariot, condemned to eternal life for his sin. Always staying at the age of forty, the hero of the novel wanders the world, experiencing the torments of loneliness, love and betrayal. Trying to survive in new, alien times and countries, he learns and teaches, meets and breaks up, falls in love and loses loved ones. His contemporaries disappear into oblivion, but he remains and continues his endless life, painful and full of hardships, but not devoid of occasional glimpses of happiness. The hero's fate turns out to be closely connected with a mysterious artifact - a silver statuette of a heron: in it he finds a testament to liberation from his curse. Following this testament, the hero over the centuries gets acquainted with three characters who are imbued with sincere love for him, but in the end betray him, each for his own reason. A young Vascon woman involved in the war between the Basques and the Franks that broke out in the 8th century; an English artist obsessed with art and creativity at the end of the 16th century; a Leningrad graduate student tormented by unhappy love in the late 1980s - all of them play a key role in the hero's fulfillment of the task formulated in the redemptive parchment. The author masterfully intertwines the genres of historical novel, philosophical detective story and mystical parable, revealing the tragedy of immortality and the problems of eternal life, as well as themes of betrayal, spiritual search, obsession with revenge, art and science.