Rossy Writers
When the sociologists asked the Russians to name Russia's greatest writers, they called classics. Based on a study in which the Levada Centre interviewed 1,600 respondents, the Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekov and Pushkin are fairly predictable. It's actually fine. British respondents sometimes show similar conservatism. If you read the list of names, you'll find that, as you should have expected, almost all the authors are men and there is no living writer in the first ten.
Is that the best thing in Russian literature? Maybe Russian writers, as well as modern Russian writers, just doesn't make sense to read? No, it's definitely not. There are many original and interesting female authors in Russia, such as Ludmila Street, who were on the list for the last place, and Marina Stepnov. However, according to the post-Soviet Russian literature specialist Lisa Hayden (Lisa Hayden), the leading popular blog Lizok’s Bookshelf, the results were probably influenced by the wording of the question. Respondents were asked to name " eminent " writers. Of course, with this approach, people will remember more about Tolsto and Chehove than Mihaila Shiskin, Vladimir 40ina or Oleg Pavlov.
Yet many modern Russian writers They write great books. For example, one of the few living authors on the list was Boris Akunin, who was famous for the popular trillers, in particular the cycle of fine detectives from the time of the Russian king about Elegant and Reserved Eraste Fandorina, a diplomat who was a detective. The first novel from this cycle, Azasel, which is being carried out by Moscow, London and Petersburg, came out in English in 2003, entitled The Winter Queen.