Kirill Sorokin biography

In her new issue, the founder of the Beat Film Festival film festival Kirill Sorokin tells both those who influenced him more than others, and that he was only about to read. Mikhail Gigolashvili “Damn the Wheel” is the first truly large novel released in Russian in recent years. A completely impeccably written novel, which the author spent probably ten years on. A powerful and tragic history of personal decay against the background of the collapse of the country.

After a year and a half, I myself ended up in Tbilisi, where most of the plot is unfolding, describing the everyday life of local heroin drug addicts. I went there even with some kind of wary - so powerful impressions left images from the book. Bengt Youngfeldt “Stavka - Life: Vladimir Mayakovsky and his circle” A person with a hard -pronounced surname Bengt Yangfeldt - Swedish Slavist, specialist in the work of Brodsky and Mayakovsky.

He himself talked a lot with Brik, Jacobson and other surroundings of the poet and wrote, perhaps, the best biography that I have ever read. There are a whole mass of details, funny details: like Mayakovsky, for example, each of his new book handed a friend and many years of criticism to Jacobson with the words: “You, Romka, praised loudly! Romik, for new praises a volume!

Every time I start reading this book, it feels like I open it again. Misha himself - exactly from the eighties. He was a witness to everything he writes about, knows almost all these people and did a titanic work, collecting all these photos. This is doubly difficult, given that all these heroes, punks and metallists were not the most diligent guardians of the archives, not to mention the fact that half of these people are no longer alive.

Jonathan Franzen “Amendments” is probably the most significant foreign novel that I have read over the past five years. At first, claims were made to him, they say that this America is no longer, the moments are already in the distant past, but for me this is still the main American book. The transition to zero, incredibly piercing human history is very powerfully shown there.

I randomly meet images from the book when I read some news, plots, now and then I find situations, as if written off from there. Recently I purchased it in English in a completely wonderful Bookhunter store on clean ponds for some funny money.

I bought in many ways because of the cover, which, in terms of intelligibility and adequacy, the book seemed to me ambitious. Nicola Lajoya “Santa Claus, or a book about how Coca-Cola has formed our imaginary world” The fascinating story of the transformation of a local product into a world brand. As the image of St. Nicholas, it was transformed into the image of Santa Claus, and children from an early age became the target audience of the company and turned into a symbolic design, absolutely artificial.

As during the war, Coca-Cola was thrown out to the soldiers as humanitarian assistance-and this emphasized its importance. The story about incredible myths, which are now not always clear. Orkhan Pamuk “Museum of Innocial” this book is one of the few reasons to return to Istanbul and visit the Museum of Innocialness described there. A funny story is connected with the book, how I went to Israel for the New Year several years ago and we met our Moscow girlfriend, who made a report there.

At some point, I gave her this book on the road. And then she told me how, because of the book, she had problems at the Israeli airport, since she had a pseudo-Arab lump on the cover. It did not matter at all that this was a book of Nobel laureate translated into dozens of languages. The story of a girl who worked in a bookstore lived on a penny and at the same time was truly obsessed with a great real pure art.

Moreover, the book is read much more interesting than any non-fiction, as an exciting novel, written in the first person. Simon Reynolds “Retromania: Pop Culture Addiction to Its Own Past” is also a book of a wonderful musical journalist about why pop culture all the time steps on his tail.