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Andrei Makine

saliotthomas

saliotthomas

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Andrei Makine is Russian writer,I just read one of his book "Dreams of My Russian Summers" i loved it,and advise the one among you like who Russian literature to try it;
I'm in Paris for few days,i shall try to get some others

any one read him?
 
I just finished Requiem for the East,The best book i read this years and a complete surprise.When the woman who waited was very similar in style and pace to testamant Francais this one is about war and spies ,about memories and roots also but the writing is much harder.Nothing of the Proustian reminisence in this,we are in Africa tarcking arms dealers,In Russia during the revolution,the first war the segond and the cold.With images so vivid,so true that they will follow you for a while.I have never read something like that before,ever.
259 pages for three generations,insight about Russian history,a strange kind of love,death,lot's of them,all held by the magnificent prose of Andrei Makine.
I just realized i was witnessing the blooming of one of the greatest writer of our century,and if there is one man i would like to meet,it's him.
 
I read Dreams of My Russian Summers last year, and as you say, it is a beautiful book. I chose it as my Best Book of the Year in a very difficult choice against Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! I'll certainly be reading more of him. Very highly recommended.
 
Peder said:
I read Dreams of My Russian Summers last year, and as you say, it is a beautiful book. I chose it as my Best Book of the Year in a very difficult choice against Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! I'll certainly be reading more of him. Very highly recommended.
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As you rightly mention on another coversation,Andrei Makine is an author whom one come to put one his "read all" list.In the sense that the more book you read the more you want to percive general image emanating from his work.A book been merely a mouvement of the music.
Requiem should come as a shock to you Peder.
 
I just finished Once Upon the River Love thanks to Peder posting the first line. I just had to find out where Makine was going with "Her body is a softened, glowing crystal on a glassblower's pipe. . ."

Thanks, Peder. I really enjoyed it.
 
Robert said:
I just finished Once Upon the River Love thanks to Peder posting the first line. I just had to find out where Makine was going with "Her body is a softened, glowing crystal on a glassblower's pipe. . ."

Thanks, Peder. I really enjoyed it.
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Yayness! /happy banana dancing/

Yes, Robert, that is quite a line, and now that I think of where it does go, it provides a smile of amusement. Makine spins a neat tale. I'm waiting to get sorted out here with some other reading before taking up Thomas' shocking recommendation. :eek:
I can hardly wait.
 
Dreams of My Russian Summers is on my reading list. I was going to read it this week, but it got bumped when I picked up Once Upon the River Love at the library.

I'm still thinking about adding Requiem for the East to my shopping list.
 
I certainly will put Once Upon the River Love on mine,but this list include all of Makine books anyway,so i just put this one on the top.
 
I love this writer, especially for his style and for the music in his prose, the images and the amazing metaphors that make you feel the air of Russian winters.
I read The Music of a Life about a pianist who runs away during the war, Human Love, The Woman who Waited and others. Well, these titles were originally in French, they might sound a bit different in English.
 
just got human love amour humain in French and from the first few pages it resemble the style of Requiem for the East,the hard side of Makine.I was amazed to discover this part of his writing delighted by the comfirmation of a segond book.

I get more of them tomorrow.
 
I finished Music of a life last night and :star5:a half
If any of you want to try Makine,this is the book i would most recommand.It's short,beautifull as always,incredibly clever and humain,ironique at times.Little more than 100 pages of pure mastery,of perfectly balance prose,of images that seems futiles and becoming escential to the story.
If was in bed shaking my head,stuned by the power of the tale,very few books left me in that state of wonder.
I came prepared and still was again surprised.
 
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