Sergei Nosov - the writer of our time

Sergei Anatolyevich Nosov is a modern Petersburg writer who in 2015 received the National Book - an annual all-Russian literary award for the book Curly Braces. Perhaps in the future his works will be included in the school curriculum. Already, some of his plays students are disassembled in the lessons of extracurricular reading.

Biography

Sergei Nosov is a writer-prose writer, essayist and playwright. He writes plays, works of art and non-fiction. He was born in 1957 on February 19 in St. Petersburg, then in Leningrad. Now the writer is 58 years old. He graduated from two institutes in St. Petersburg: Aviation Instrumentation and Literary named after Gorky. First he worked in the first specialty, then went into journalism. He was an editor in the magazine Koster, he worked on radio.

How it all began?

Even in his third year at the Leningrad Institute he began to write poetry. As the author himself says, it happened to him quite suddenly, as if a big book had been hit on the head. Most of those first poems burned.

Literary debut took place in 1980. The journal Aurora printed his poems. The first prosaic book was published in 1990 - "Below, under the stars". Sergei Nosov is a writer whose novels have repeatedly been included in short lists of the National Bestseller and Russian Booker prizes. In addition, he is a finalist of the seventh season of another literary prize - "The Big Book". In 1998, Sergei Anatolyevich received a journalist prize "Golden Pen."

Writer-playwright

Sergei Anatolievich wrote more than twenty plays. They are successfully staged in theaters. His favorite genre is a tragicomedy. In addition, he writes radio plays, mostly children's, in co-authorship with the poet Grigoriev. He also wrote scripts for Russian classics for radio shows.

Nosov neglects the theatrical conventions, why his plays become paradoxical, and the dialogues are very lively. Sergey Anatolyevich likes plays not only for spectators, but also for readers. They were repeatedly reprinted in various magazines and collections. He received the Tolubeev award as a playwright for exploring the artistic nature of the dramaturgic absurdity.

The most famous plays are "Don Pedro", "Berendey" and "The Way of Columbus".

Similarity with Gogol

Often, the style of writing Sergei Anatolyevich Nosov compared with the style of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Sergei Nosov is a modern writer, and he writes modern Russian, but he was brought up in Russian classics and loves Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy since childhood. In addition to education on good literature, which affected the letter of the author himself, he also loves phantasmagoria, as well as Gogol. Plus, the surname of the writer causes reading people to associate with the story of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol "The Nose", that is, his surname is somewhat "Gogol".

Even in his childhood, Nosov consciously learned from Gogol to tell terrible stories. Then in the summer he was resting in the pioneer camp, and in children's summer camps, as is known, scary stories are very much appreciated. Sergei Anatolyevich did not yet know that he would become a writer, but he already learned from the classics.

Sergey Nosov: books non-fiction

Until 2008, Sergei Anatolyevich did not try himself in the genre of journalism, except for his magazine columns at the beginning of the literary path. And in 2008 the book "The Secret Life of St Petersburg Monuments" was published. The book was attributed to the genre "other local studies", the author himself calls his texts essays or essays. The author was looking for not all familiar monuments, and those that are little known, those that are not written in the guidebooks. He recognized their history and told it to the reader. Monuments in this book look mysterious aliens.

Also in 2008 there was a collection of Nosov's essay "Museum of Circumstances".

The novel "Braces" by Sergei Nosov

This is the sixth novel of the writer, written in the genre of a tragicomedy. It combines both magical realism and absurdity. Like all Nosov's texts, he is also filled with good irony. The novel was created ten years, periodically the writer threw the manuscript, and then again to it came back.

In "Braces" Nosov disguised in his characters real people belonging to the so-called St. Petersburg vip party, as well as his own books.

The plot of the novel is that the mathematician Kapitonov goes to St. Petersburg for a constituent congress of illusionists, or a congress of micromagics, as they call themselves. Kapitonov knows how to guess the two-digit numbers that other people think. As it turns out, he himself does not understand, the ability appeared suddenly in times of stress. Upon arrival, Kapitonov meets his ex-wife Mukhina. She gives him the diary of the spouse he led before he committed suicide. The reader observes during the narrative how the congress of micromags passes, and, together with Kapitonov, reads Mukhin's diary.

Sergei Nosov - a writer uniquely talented, but he did not expect that his novel with the text in the text will receive the "National Bestseller" award. However, the jury evaluated his work with dignity.