Лев Боаз-Яхинов и Яхин-Боазов

The British novelist of American Jewish origin Russell Hoban is a separate phenomenon in English-language literature, a magical surrealist, a real Londoner, born in Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian Jews, a participant in World War II. At first, Hoban wrote only for children, but since 1973 - just from the novels "Lev Boaz-Yakhinov and Yakhin-Boazov" (1973) and "Kleinzeit" (1974) - he begins to compose for adults, and this is our great luck . "Dodo Press" has long wanted to publish two of his much denser and more powerful novels - two parables about fearlessness and immortality, the strength and weakness of the creators, about personally suffered meanings, about what fathers and children owe or do not owe each other, "Lev Boaz -Yakhinov and Yakhin-Boazov" and "Kleinzeit". And besides, Hoban is a true poet and linguistic balancing act, his figurative language creates a multi-layered shadow of fresh meanings behind each object. "Kleinzeit" (1974) is a black parable based on the Greek myth of Orpheus. The protagonist of the novel, Kleinzeit (which in German means "small time", and in translation into English turns into a different meaning and takes on the meaning of "ordinary, ordinary") suddenly gets fired, feels incomprehensible pain, finds himself in a hospital, falls in love with a beautiful Nurse, and all this in one day. Then it turns out that his illness lies not somewhere, but in the region of the hypotenuse, range and asymptotes. The game continues, and stretto, theme and response, fugue and other musical terms enter the stage, which turns Kleinzeit's disease into ...