Writer Alexei Ivanov's new novel "Vegetation" will show the world of the future

The new novel of the largest Russian writer Alexei Ivanov "Vegetation" is released on November 28 at once in audio format and as a printed book. "Izvestia" read the book before its release.

Ivanov, who in his work intersperses historicism with modernity, this time rushed into the future. In the new novel, Russian forests will become radioactive, China will be at war with the West, and the most valuable people will be stalkers-"vagabonds". Small gangs on huge machines will be carried through the taiga, fight each other and die in the swamps, reaping the fruits of the new gold rush.

There is something here from the early story "Earth-Sorting" and other, later works of his, where the evil doom always hangs over myopic heroes who do not know that their passions lead them to a deadly dead end, where they are at best waiting for the moment of truth before death. And, most likely, they will disappear among the endless forests and mountains, only a piece of text in the book of a great Russian writer, which, of course, has long been Alexei Ivanov. And once again he proved that this status is well-deserved.

Let's not forget that we are dealing not only with the most screened, but also the most cinematic writer in the country. Here Ivanov even names each chapter as a place of action, without any other details: the 1st chapter Socialist City of Magnitka, the 2nd chapter Socialist City of Magnitka (II), the 3rd chapter Socialist City of Magnitka (III), and so on. He switches between characters very montage-like, allowing us to see things a little more broadly than the protagonist sees when he gets to the city, but not too much so that the reader still wanders and stumbles. To be like in a deep forest - impenetrable and fearful.

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