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Laureat Gonkurovskoĭ premii i Gran-pri Frant͡suzskoĭ akademii Patrik Rambo izvesten vo Frant͡sii kak avtor populi͡arnykh istoricheskikh romanov, no na seĭ raz on obrashchaetsi͡a k nedavnemu proshlomu svoeĭ strany: geroĭ 'romana-vymysla', nash sovremennik, perenositsi͡a na polveka nazad. Li͡ubimai͡a fantastami tema puteshestviĭ vo vremeni blagodari͡a tonkomu psikhologizmu zvuchit v 'Derevenskom durachke' svezho i neizbito.Kak chasto my vozvrashchaemsi͡a mysli͡ami v proshloe... Geroĭ romana Patrika Rambo okazyvaetsi͡a v proshlom na samom dele. Iz 1995 goda geroĭ v odnochasʹe perenositsi͡a v 1953-ĭ: mnogoe eshche svezho v pami͡ati, i vse-taki skolʹko razlichiĭ! Ri͡adovoĭ frant͡suz kont͡sa tysi͡acheletii͡a zazhil dvoĭnoĭ zhiznʹi͡u. Fantastika? Psikhologicheskiĭ ėksperiment? Avtor nakhodit neozhidannoe reshenie, kotoroe pomozhet ego geroi͡u vzgli͡anutʹ na sebi͡a i na okruzhai͡ushchiĭ mir po-novomu.Proshloe, dalekoe i nedavnee, predstavli͡aetsi͡a nam galereeĭ divnykh lakirovannykh kartin; krasivye legendy i rekonstrukt͡sii zastavli͡ai͡ut zabytʹ o glavnom: proshloe bylo kogda-to budnichnym nastoi͡ashchim…Patrik Rambo

The winner of the Goncourt Prize and the Grand Prix of the French Academy, Patrick Rambaud, is known in France as the author of popular historical novels, but this time he turns to the recent past of his country: the hero of the 'fiction novel', our contemporary, is transported back half a century. The theme of time travel, beloved by science fiction writers, thanks to subtle psychologism, sounds fresh and unbroken in The Village Fool.How often we think back to the past... The hero of Patrick Rambeau's novel turns out to be in the past in fact. From 1995, the hero is transferred overnight to 1953: much is still fresh in memory, and yet how many differences! An ordinary Frenchman of the end of the millennium has lived a double life. Fiction? A psychological experiment? The author finds an unexpected solution that will help his hero look at himself and the world around him in a new way.The past, distant and recent, appears to us as a gallery of marvelous lacquered paintings; beautiful legends and reconstructions make us forget about the main thing: the past was once an everyday present…Patrick Rambo