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Vasiliĭ Aksenov - vsemirno izvestnyĭ pisatelʹ, laureat rossiĭskogo Bukera i kavaler frant͡suzskogo Ordena iskusstv i literatury. Povestʹ 'Bumazhnyĭ peĭzazh' (1982) napisana v pervye gody ėmigrat͡sii i vpervye izdana v SShA. Glavnyĭ geroĭ Igorʹ Velosipedov popadaet v Ameriku iz sovetskoĭ deĭstvitelʹnosti, kotorai͡a izobrazhena s gorʹkoĭ ironieĭ.Vcherashniĭ sovetskiĭ inzhener, ubezhdennyĭ, chto vo vsem vinovat 'bumazhnyĭ mir bi͡urokratii', s udivleniem obnaruzhivaet v Amerike tu zhe bumazhnui͡u volokitu i bi͡urokratii͡u - vse to, ot chego on tak stremilsi͡a uĭti. Stanet li ėto krusheniem illi͡uziĭ? Estʹ li nadezhda na novui͡u zhiznʹ i li͡ubovʹ?I͡A za revoli͡ut͡sii͡u 465 gradusov po Farengeĭtu, i pozvolʹte s vami ne soglasitʹsi͡a, dorogoĭ tovarishch Rėĭbrėdberi: unichtozhenie bumagi vyzovet ne totalitarizm, a, skoree, naoborot - nastoi͡ashchiĭ kommunizm, mechtu Fridrikha Ėngelʹca. Vedʹ v svi͡ashchennom ogne antibumazhnoĭ revoli͡ut͡sii sgori͡at vse nashi omerzitelʹnye spravki, zai͡avlenii͡a, kharakteristiki, prikazy i vypiski iz prikazov, rezoli͡ut͡sii, protokoly, kvitant͡sii, ordera, grafiki, diagrammy, donosy… Mne skazhut, chto postradai͡ut khudozhestvennye t͡sennosti, v chastnosti literatura. Chto zh, kak ni pechalʹno, no ei͡u pridetsi͡a pozhertvovatʹ. Budem bolʹshe petʹ, bolʹshe igratʹ na muzykalʹnykh instrumentakh.Vasiliĭ Aksenov

Vasily Aksenov is a world-famous writer, winner of the Russian Booker Prize and a knight of the French Order of Arts and Literature. The novel "Paper Landscape" (1982) was written in the early years of emigration and was first published in the USA. The main character Igor Bicycles gets to America from the Soviet reality, which is depicted with bitter irony.Yesterday's Soviet engineer, convinced that the "paper world of bureaucracy" is to blame for everything, is surprised to find in America the same paperwork and bureaucracy - all that he was so eager to get away from. Will this be the collapse of illusions? Is there any hope for a new life and love?I am for a revolution of 465 degrees Fahrenheit, and let me disagree with you, dear Comrade Ray Bradbury: the destruction of paper will not cause totalitarianism, but rather, on the contrary, real communism, the dream of Friedrich Engels. After all, in the sacred fire of the anti-paper revolution, all our disgusting certificates, statements, characteristics, orders and extracts from orders, resolutions, protocols, receipts, warrants, graphs, diagrams, denunciations will burn… They will tell me that artistic values, in particular literature, will suffer. Well, it's sad, but it will have to be sacrificed. We will sing more, play more musical instruments.Vasily Aksenov