Читать книгу Остров Харона. The Island of Charon. Премия им. А. де Сент-Экзюпери / A. de Saint-Exupery Award (Билингва: Rus / Eng) - Александра Андреевна Крючкова, Александра Крючкова - Страница 17
О КНИГЕ / About the BOOK
The Ghost Ship
ОглавлениеI read «The Island of Charon» by Alexandra Kryuchkova in one breath. I am shocked. In my opinion, it is a masterpiece! I haven’t read anything like this before. It is a modern parable with a deep philosophical meaning, hidden behind a transparent, well-balanced form. The author offers her own concept of immortality.
The main characters have something in common with the characters of Alexander Grin, with the little prince of Antoine de Saint-Exupery and with the sad mermaid of Hans Christian Andersen. Assol can be guessed in the protagonist’s features, although, instead of the happy «Scarlet Sails»20, she is destined to meet the Ship full of Ghosts.
The boundaries between reality and fantasy are so blurred that the plot twists and turns are impossible to predict! There are no random details in the book, they are all deeply symbolic, and the Greek myths, passed through the heart, gain a second life. Poems are harmoniously interspersed in prose, giving the story a special intimacy21. However, the entire text is pure poetry! It seems that a magical film about the worlds of water and sky, love and death is unfolding before your eyes.
Of course, Kryuchkova’s prose deserves the highest praise. Surely, it will be translated into many languages and brilliantly filmed!
Irina ANTONOVA,
member of the Union of Writers of Russia,
laureate of literary awards
The newspaper «Poetograd» No. 4 (400), 2022.
http://www.poetograd.ru/arch.html
https://reading-hall.ru/publication.php?id=30662
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*The most famous novel of Alexander Grin is called «Scarlett Sails». The main character, named Assol, lives in a seaside village and believes that one day a ship with scarlett sails would come to their pire, and the captain of the ship, named Gray, would marry her.
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Poems are present in the original. There is only one of them included by the author into English version of the book.
