Alexander Pokrovsky, writer: biography, creativity

Alexander Pokrovsky is a former submarine officer, a seascape writer. Satire of this author is compared with the work of Konecki and Zoshchenko. The whole spectrum of human relations - from the absurd to the fateful expectation of death - determines the construction and poetics of Pokrovsky's language. Exquisite refined humor, ernichestvo, sitcom, sharp satire, strong sailor's word are transmitted by this author with the accuracy of the cartographer.

Biography

Pokrovsky Alexander Mikhailovich was born in Baku in late November 1952 in the family of an electrician. After graduating from high school in 1970, Alexander entered the naval school named after SM Kirov, who graduated successfully in 1975. Alexander received a specialty radiochemist.

Alexander Pokrovsky on distribution was sent to the Northern Fleet for service. In 1976 he was appointed to the post of chief of the chemical submarine. He served on missile submarine nuclear powered boats, took part in twelve combat campaigns.

In 1985, Pokrovsky was sent to Severodvinsk, and from there he was transferred in 1986 to the northern capital at the Central Research Institute of the RF Ministry of Defense. In 1991, he retired to the reserve in the rank of captain of the 2nd rank.

Alexander Mikhailovich recalls that he wrote his very first story "Naida" in the distant 1983. For the first time the author's stories were transferred to the publishing house "Soviet Writer" in 1989, and four years later the book "Merlezon Ballet" was published. In 1994, the book "Shoot ..." was published. The novel brought the author fame and popularity.

Alexander Pokrovsky won the glory of a brilliant storyteller. Today he has about forty books on his account, which have been published and continue to be published in huge editions.

Alexander Pokrovsky: books. The Cat (2002)

The book consists of short stories and the novel "Revelations of the Cat of Sebastian". The language of the author, voiced by the cat of Sebastian, sounds comical and caustic. The rest of the characters appear before funny animals in the most unexpected angles, which he tells the readers.

Behemoth (2005)

The reader will meet in this book old acquaintances and new heroes who have adapted to modern life. It is filled with comic situations, and indeed dramatic. How they manage to cope with all the trials, how they resist the onslaught of time - you will learn from this book.

"72 meters" (2007)

Stories are the most popular genre that Alexander Pokrovsky most often uses. The books of the author are often collections that are composed of short stories written at different times.

This is the collection of "72 meters". The name he received from the same story, which tells of a group of sailors trying to survive in the complete darkness of a flooded submarine.

"Logbook" (2007)

This is a series of books, which today consists of seven issues. In these books, the writer is true to himself - witty and at the same time seriously writing about the present, about difficult conditions. The author has a rare gift - he can, with sarcasm and humor, analyze the features, sometimes very serious, of our reality. A thoughtful, unique literary style allows the author to be jerked, but not to use malice, to joke, but not pouring bile, spying, not mocking.

His literary observations, he accompanies sketches, which he succeeds as brilliantly. Thanks to the penetrating style of A. Pokrovsky, getting into the pages of the "Logbook", to experience the test of time becomes a little easier.

"People in the army" (2009)

This is a collection of letters, notes, short prosaic passages, observations sent to the author from all parts of our country, by people who have gone through an army school. These materials are collected and systematized by a remarkable master of words in a holistic narrative, telling about the life of a man in the army.

Expressive and somewhat caustic humor, the comic of unexpected situations demonstrate how a person overcomes a fairly rigid system, adapts it to himself. This book tells about overcoming difficult circumstances, about the bitter and ridiculous in the life of the military, about how to live in the proposed circumstances.

Arabesques (2010)

Under one cover Alexander Pokrovsky gathered his "arabesques". And he did not just collect it, but he illustrated them, emphasizing the virtuosity and vivacity of the unique literary genre, which today disappears from our literature.

Observations of the jolts of history behind the mutating Russian language are transformed in the author's most interesting narrative, in the center of which he himself is - a witty and mocking, subtle observer, nothing will hide from his gaze.

"Disappointment" (2012)

In the book "Пропадино" the surprising history written under laws of a phantasmagoria and grotesque which always were the base of the Russian literature is stated. How not to disappear in time? This question writer Alexander Pokrovsky responds with imagination and sparkling humor.

"... Shoot" (2001) and "... Shoot 2" (2004)

This is one of the most famous books by A. Pokrovsky. It consists of two parts. It included stories written by the author in the Navy. Magnificent style, lightness and wit, lyricism and honesty - this is a real breakthrough, which allows attributing this work to the serious achievements of Russian prose of the twentieth century.

The stories collected in the book are not always amusing, sometimes they are full of true drama, but they are very lyrical and sweet, they happened with the main character, an officer, the faithful son of his Motherland. Against this background, the absurd accidents that have occurred with his close and distant relatives and friends are described.

Sistema (2004)

In this work Alexander Pokrovsky offers his readers stories and a short novel "System". This is the name of a closed institution where future officers-submariners (cadets) are taught to live according to the laws of sacrifice and valor. How they manage to exist, understand each other and the world around them, the author tells, studying the shades and peculiarities of being in an environment where the pressure of life and strength, together with human weakness, turn into a single whole.

Alexander Pokrovsky is a talented author whose every work is a real event in the world of contemporary literature.