International Booker Shortlist - Six Authors Seeking Truth Automatic translate

LONDON. 6 authors entered the final of the International Booker Prize.

The establishment of the International Booker Prize is a chance to receive one of the most prestigious literary awards by nominees from different countries.

The shortlist of the 2018 Man Booker International Prize includes works by six authors, one of which will receive £ 50,000 if won. On the short list are Virginie Despentes, Han Kang, Laszlo Krasnochorkai (Krasznahorkai László), Antonio Muñoz Molina, Ahmed Saadawi, Olga Tokarczuk.

Virginie Depant’s novel is compared to the “Human Comedy” of our day, a mirror that reflected modern French society. Vernon Subutex 1 is the story of an urban legend, the owner of a notorious music store. The ruin, the unexpected death of a friend who helped him out in difficult times. A hero roaming the streets of Paris is at the epicenter of incredible intrigue.

Virginia’s biography abounds with such twists that could form the basis of an action-packed novel. Alcoholic intoxication from adolescents 13 to 30. Stay in a psychiatric clinic. Violence experienced in 17 years, several years of prostitution, outing. Her novels, shocking the respectable bourgeois, became bestsellers, they are filmed and receive prestigious awards.

Korean Han Khan - Booker 2016 for the gloomy allegory of The Vegetarian. In the new season, she claims to win the novel The White Book. White is a special color for Koreans. No wonder they are called the "nation in white robes." It is a symbol of purity and desire for peace, but at the same time a symbol of mourning. The Gan book is about death through a white prism.

Laszlo Krasnorkorkai is another owner of the coveted Booker, received in 2015 for the totality of all the works. The authority of the “living classic” from Hungary is so high that the receipt of the Nobel Prize in literature in the near future is not in doubt. The domestic reader knows his work only from the collection of short stories and the brilliant Satanic Tango (Sátántangó), published in Russia 32 years later. And also according to the monochrome masterpieces of Bella Tarr (Tarr Béla), who filmed the five novels of Krasnokhorkai in close collaboration with the author. Krasnokhorkai once said, trying to formulate the essence of his own style: “Each of us has only one proposal, and we have been looking for this proposal all our life. Each extraordinarily long utterance in his novels is the quintessence of all the truths and meanings embedded in them. The World Goes On - eleven amazing stories that evolve beyond the logic of linear narrative.

The book of the Spanish writer Antonio Munoz Molina, “Like a Fading Shadow”, returns to the events of 1968 - the murder of the famous Baptist preacher, an active advocate for the rights of African Americans Martin Luther King (Martin Luther King). His alleged killer, James Earl Ray, after pronouncing a sentence that doomed him to 99 years in prison, pleaded not guilty. He died in custody at 70. Irrefutable evidence of his guilt was never received. Molina proposed a detailed reconstruction of the events of 50 years ago and her own paradoxical conclusions.

Ahmed Saadawi is a famous Iraqi poet, prose writer, screenwriter, documentary director. His Frankenstein in Baghdad is a classic story in a new way. The face of a beautiful ancient city is distorted by chaos and incessant violence. Scavenger Hadi, like the hero of the gothic novel Mary Shelley, sews together parts of the bodies found after the explosions. The resulting creature calls itself the first true citizen of Iraq, since the fragments belong to representatives of different classes, races, ethnic groups, and goes to avenge.

Olga Tokarczuk is one of the most famous modern Polish writers. Her parents are immigrants from Ukraine. Flights - a bizarre mosaic of stories about the body and soul, about what happens when they leave each other. Heroes, circumstances, countries, historical figures, anatomical pathologies are changing - an exciting search for truth.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru