The best modern novels. Modern Russian novels

For an inexperienced reader, modern novels are a unique opportunity to plunge headlong into the vortex of the saturated events of the present life through the literary works of this genre. Thanks to the fact that this genre of modern prose tries to fully satisfy the demands of all readers, its diversity is impressive. It is constantly developing, improving, pleasing the public with new ideas and names. The works of modern authors are rapidly becoming popular, collecting hundreds of thousands, millions of admirers, competing with classics.

Modern prose is multifaceted

It is possible to enumerate endlessly the universally recognized masters of today's prose: Camus, Pelevin, Anders and others. Their modern novels diverge in huge editions, making their creators famous all over the world, many become the basis for a variety of cinematic research. Modernity has no strict censorship, as the demanding critic is the reader himself, carefully selecting from all the books offered the most valuable and interesting ones. Modern novels describe not only the unadorned realities of the present life, they are so multifaceted that absolutely all genres - detective, fantasy, adventure and love - are reflected in them.

The novelist's work

The novelist's work does not differ much from any other kind of human activity. In the source of the idea (novels of contemporary authors are not an exception) lies the irresistible desire of the author to talk about something or express something. In other words, a modern novel is not just a thick book with a decent number of characters, but such an inspired text, the process of working on it changes the author himself, reveals in him something that he never thought about before or did not suspect. Unfortunately, in modern literature, short modern testimonial novels are on the verge of extinction, since these projects are always labor-intensive. Yes, and the role of a witness of history has long been entrusted to memoirists. In addition, the somewhat belated feminization of literature has led to the fact that the author's ability to squeeze out tears from readers becomes the main criterion for success and profitability. But after all, the quality of works can be determined only by the number of creeps caused by the skin. And it is unquestionably possible for selected writers, among them: Haruki Murakami, Bernard Verber, Janusz Wisniewski, Eric L. James, Jodi Pikolt, Victor Pelevin and many others.

Russian literary works

Modern Russian novels are all the same literary narrative works that have limited maximum permissible sizes. Their content traditionally includes a very significant period of time and describes the life histories of several characters in action in the event series. Art in Russia (literature including) has been considered "intelligent" from time immemorial, unfortunately, now it turns into a hobby. Modern authors do not live with their creations, they just get carried away depending on the degree and speed of development of their talents. Some are attracted only by weighty monetary grants and the possibility of publishing in the world-famous collections, and hence - glory. However, the literary men in our country have not lost their sway, the modern Russian novel is alive and developing.

Female novelists are generators of the sentimental

Lyudmila Ulitskaya

The work: "The Green Tent" is a novel about true love, about different fates, about original characters. In fact, this is a real strong psychological prose. At the same time, this new work by Ulitskaya is much broader than these clear definitions.

The second novel of this author also deserves close attention - "Medea and her children." The content of the work is a well-known all-know myth about the passionate Colchis princess Medea, about generosity and mercy that appear in the same places on the Crimean shore.

The next no less interesting contemporary Russian novel Ulitskaya - "Sincerely your Shurik" - confirmed her novelist talent, while profitingly emphasized the novelty of the chosen novel form, which absolutely no one expected from the recognized "sentimental generator". L. Ulitskaya is characterized by the adaptation of the classical novel form to the newfangled literary habits of "facilitated consumption," which translates her syllable into the more accessible language of the present culture.

Maya Kucherskaya

The author is a leading prose writer, along with this literary critic; Author of the book "The God of the Rain", who received the "Student Booker" award, and the novel "The Modern Patericon. Reading for the Disappointed", which was awarded the "Bunin Prize". The new work "Aunt Motya" is a description of the excerpt from the life of the main heroine of Marina, who in the past was a teacher of Russian and literature, and now works as a proofreader of the weekly newspaper. She, dry and tired of life, once becomes the epicenter of developing romantic relationships, with all the consequences respectively.

Marina Stepnova

This is the author of the book "Women of Lazarus" (which has a short list of prizes "National Bestseller", "Big Book", "Russian Booker", "Clear Glade"). Her works are inspired with great enthusiasm by newfangled thick magazines, while Marina is a talented stylist and competent editor-in-chief of the well-known men's magazine. In her new novel "Surgeon", a story of the life of the gifted plastic surgeon Arkady Khripunov in a close interweaving with the story of Hassan ibn Sabbah, the prophet and founder of the power of the Nizarite Islamists of the 11th century, is brought to the readers' court.

Male premium brand

Victor Pelevin

This is a real high-quality premium brand on the conditional book market, after all for all the years of publishing the works has proved to be irreproachable. The books of this writer are read by absolutely everything: students, oligarchs, housewives and politicians and the President himself. They are willingly quoted in the rating media, and in social networks, and fashionable get-togethers. His new work - a modern Russian novel "Pineapple water for a beautiful lady" - will necessarily become one of the most successful and bright events in the world of literature. After discovering each of his books, the reader receives not only high-quality exemplary literature, but also the actual modernized philosophy of one of the most boldly and ingeniously thinking people of our time.

Aleksey Ivanov

The author of the novel with the concretizing title "Geograf globus propyl." It may seem that the outward appearance of the book is simple and simple: a young biologist Vitya Sluzhkin has to go to work as a simple geography teacher in one of Perm schools. He conflicts with the pupils, the director of studies, drinks wine, tries to establish relations with his wife and daily leads his daughter to the kindergarten. He just lives. Even such at first sight ordinary everyday histories take as a basis modern novels.

Eugene Vodolazkin

The author is a philologist writer, a competent expert on ancient Russian literature and the author of the novel "Soloviev and Larionov", a magnificent collection of essays "The Instrument of Language" and many other books. His new novel "Laurus" tells the story of the life of a medieval doctor who, having a unique gift of healing, is not able to save his dying beloved, therefore he is going to go through the hard road of the earthly instead of it.

20 best foreign books of the XXI century

The category "the best modern novels" will not be complete without the best foreign books:

• "The middle floor" of the Pulitzer Prize winner Jeffrey Evgenidis.
• "Kafka on the beach" by the Japanese writer and translator Haruki Murakami.
• "Do not Let Me Go" by a British writer with a Japanese background, Kazuo Ishiguro.
• "Short and amazing life of Oscar Wo" American writer of the Dominican origin Zhuno Diaz.
• "2666" of the Chilean poet and prose writer Roberto Bolaño.
• "Cloud Atlas" by the English author of the novels David Mitchell.
• "Road" of the American novelist, playwright Cormac McCarthy.
• "Austerlitz" by the German poet, prose writer and essayist VG Zebald.
• The "Atonement" of the British writer, the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Ian McEwan.
• "Running after the wind" of the American writer of Afghan origin Khaled Hosseini.
• "The Adventures of Chevalier and Clay" by American writer and screenwriter Michael Chabon.
• "Amendments" by the author-American of numerous novels and essays by Jonathan Franzen.
• "White teeth" of the English writer Zedi Smith.

Not the last of the popular

The list under the title "best modern novels" also includes the following books: a collection of short stories by the outlandish prose writer Kelly Link "It's all very strange", "The Wonder World" by the famous American writer Edward P. Jones, "The Bastion of Loneliness" by the born American Jonathan Lethem , "It's time to take away the horses" of the Norwegian author Per Petterson, "Pastoralia. Ruin in the Civil War Park "essayist and screenwriter George Saunders.