Sergey Nosov is a contemporary writer

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Sergei Anatolyevich Nosov is a contemporary St. Petersburg writer who in 2015 received the National Best, the annual all-Russian literary award for the book Curly Braces. Perhaps in the future his works will be included in the school curriculum. Some of his plays are already being analyzed by students in extracurricular reading classes.

Biography

Sergey Nosov is a prose writer, essayist and playwright. He writes plays, fiction and non-fiction. He was born in 1957 on February 19 in St. Petersburg, then still in Leningrad. Now the writer is 58 years old. He graduated from two institutes in St. Petersburg: Aviation Instrumentation and Literary Institute named after Gorky. At first he worked in the first speci alty, then he went into journalism. He was an editor in the magazine "Bonfire", worked on the radio.

How did it all start?

Even in the third year of the Leningrad Institute, he began to write poetry. As the author himself says, it happened to him quite suddenly, as if a big book hit him on the head. Burned most of those first poems.

Literary debut in 1980. His poems were published in the Aurora magazine. The first prose book was published in 1990 - "Down Under the Stars". Sergey Nosov - writer, novelswhich was repeatedly included in the short lists of the National Bestseller and Russian Booker awards. In addition, he is a finalist for the seventh season of another literary award - "Big Book". In 1998, Sergei Anatolyevich received the Golden Pen journalistic award.

Writer-playwright

Sergey Anatolyevich wrote more than twenty plays. They are successfully staged in theaters. His favorite genre is tragicomedy. In addition, he writes radio plays, mostly for children, in collaboration with the poet Grigoriev. He also wrote scripts based on Russian classics for radio shows.

Nosov neglects theatrical conventions, which makes his plays paradoxical and his dialogues very lively. The plays of Sergei Anatolyevich are liked not only by the audience, but also by the readers. They have been repeatedly reprinted in various magazines and collections. He received the Tolubeev Prize as a playwright for exploring the artistic nature of dramatic absurdity.

Most famous plays: "Don Pedro", "Berendey" and "Way of Columbus".

Resemblance to Gogol

Often, the writing style of Sergei Anatolyevich Nosov is compared with the style of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Sergey Nosov is a modern writer, and he writes in modern Russian, but he was brought up on the Russian classics and from childhood he loves Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. In addition to being educated on good literature, which affected the author's own writing, he also loves phantasmagoria, just like Gogol. Plus, the writer's surname evokes associations with the story in reading people. Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol "Nose", that is, his last name is to some extent "Gogol".

Even as a child, Nosov deliberately learned from Gogol to tell scary stories. Then in the summer he rested in a pioneer camp, and in children's summer camps, as you know, scary stories are very much appreciated. Sergei Anatolyevich did not yet know that he would become a writer, but he was already learning from the classics.

Sergei Nosov: non-fiction books

Until 2008, Sergei Anatolyevich did not try himself in the genre of journalism, except for his magazine columns at the beginning of his literary career. And in 2008, the book "The Secret Life of St. Petersburg Monuments" was published. The book was referred to the genre of “other local history”, the author himself calls his texts essays or essays. The author was not looking for familiar monuments, but those that are little known, those that are not written about in guidebooks. He learned their story and told it to the reader. The monuments in this book look like mysterious aliens.

Also in 2008, Nosov's collection of essays "The Museum of Circumstances" was published.

Novel Curly Braces by Sergei Nosov

This is the writer's sixth tragicomedy novel. It combines both magical realism and the absurd. Like all Nosov's texts, it is also filled with good irony. The novel was created for ten years, periodically the writer abandoned his manuscript, and then returned to it again.

In "Curly brackets" Nosov disguised in his characters real people belonging to the so-called St. Petersburg vip-party, as well as his own books.

The plot of the novel is that the mathematician Kapitonov is going to St. Petersburg for the founding congress of illusionists, or the congress of micromagicians, as they call themselves. Kapitonov knows how to guess two-digit numbers that other people guess. How he does it, he himself does not understand, the ability appeared unexpectedly at a time of stress. Upon arrival, Kapitonov meets the ex-wife of his colleague Mukhin. She gives him the diary of her husband, which he kept before he committed suicide. Throughout the story, the reader watches how the congress of micromagicians is going on, and together with Kapitonov reads Mukhin's diary.

Sergey Nosov is a uniquely talented writer, but he did not expect his novel with text in text to win the National Bestseller award. However, the jury appreciated his work.