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Mikhail Elizarov is a prose writer, musician, author of the novels “Earth” (National Bestseller Award), “Librarian” (Russian Booker Award), “Pasternak” and “Cartoons”, collections “Nails” (shortlist Andrei Bely Prize), “We went out to smoke for 17 years” (reader voting prize of the “NOS” Prize), “Cubes.”

“It would be a mistake to perceive „ Burattini" as essayism in its purest form. Rather, you see monologues of characters from an unwritten novel. The heroes make sarcastic remarks and philosophize, then commit some absurd, provocative actions - in a regular novel this is called a plot. The actions, in fact, remained “behind the scenes,” so the reader is invited to perform them independently, as he reads.” Mikhail Elizarov

“Pinocchio is a resilient wooden organism, a leader and an orator, a man of action, a cynic who despises education and decadence. For him, women do not exist, and at the same time he is the embodiment of potency. Pinocchio's eternally erect nose is a symbol of his masculine wealth. Pinocchio is brave, cheerful, unprincipled and at the same time indestructibly charming.”