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vlad menshov: interview


I do not want, that my life included the literature

-- Well, have begun, have begun...

Not knowing as - in eyes or for eyes, but you often reproach that you not so qualitatively work with the text. Well at you the text as though syrovat a little bit always. What do you think of it?

-- H'm... You Understand, if my text syrovat it syrovat it is composite and sjuzhetno. It means, to the reader can seem, that certain subject lines are torn off, cut off, or any courses suddenly break also I now just I try to look, in what there business. There is it of that, probably, me thirty with a horse-radish of years and at me are certain life experience and for me some situations break purely, that is called, on a default, by default. And when me ask: and why here it is cut off, I ask a reciprocal question: and, what is not clear? All the same at a fantasy specific enough reader. It if is physically adult, is infantile enough also to it it would be desirable to receive the full answer to the already ready question and, that is more awful, to receive the already ready question on already ready answer. Probably, in it business.

As to cleanliness of the text I would like these charges just and otmesti. This time with the text I try to work very accurately. Probably it is a question of a composition, about such breakages.

These tails, they deliberate and you write not on the average reader?

-- Not on... Average-bottom, and on average-average. It as with middle-middle a class. I have my reader whom all it perceives absolutely easy. As far as I know this reader it is perfect the young man, but not the infantile. The person with the life experience.

The person who has got used raschityvat of a consequence of the acts, got used not to let out a hysterics outside. That is the person the adult is elderly... And at what age... It - from twenty and upwards. But, the main thing that there was a certain life experience. And, then, for it all it on a default. Probably, it is my error. Probably, I to myself narrow target group.

You think of the reader or he sozvuchit to you: there is there somewhere a reader and it is good.

-- On early books I precisely reflected on the reader. And, when at me already became books five-six-seven and I began to imagine that part of readers with which I communicate on the Internet which makes my fan club with those my readers who enter into an active part of a fandom, I have created to myself about them representation and I have really started to cut off the ends.

You understand, here same "Saboteur", let us assume, I perceive this thing, as, substantially, stebnuju. And, for modern youth, let us assume, it is all seriously. They are set by these questions. And I have ceased to be set by these questions in elementary grades.

When has read yours "Law Frontira" has apprehended it as a series of shots of dreams.

-- So and was. You said it. and how still to realise a dream on a paper, which such dream. When you in a dream appear in obespamjatevshem the world and see such pieces. How?! Only a tax fairly. I do not give answers. I only set questions. Those questions which at me have appeared. I vystrelivaju these questions. This so was with "Vybrakovkoj". This book is perceived by all differently, and actually is a book in which questions are set. Though, it not the sleepy. It is designed through. "Law Frontira" - yes, but is a dream. I speak: give together with me we will go through it. Both this horror and this misunderstanding of an event, and sensation of feebleness, also we will look, as we will leave therefrom.

Borches has a thing in which in a dream the person is created and it appears a priest of fire. Borches in last jobs comes back to this theme. Whether can be, what in many years you have tried to write a thing similar to "Interpretation of Dreams"?

-- The matter is that other dream should dream me. This history about the guy who has moved down on mountain skiing has dreamt me, has stopped. Nearby the woman whom he not so likes, but well understands, and she madly likes it. And then all these transitions and all these of trample without boots, but with two stools under the arm - it me so shibanulo, that I have simply risen and have written down this piece and and so it have frankly reproduced. Here here anything for the reader it has not been made. Here was vyplesk such. It seemed to me, it can be what is it interesting to people. And it is valid, was - the guy who is meeting half-way in a suit, all poured by iridescent labels... The First part, it is reproduced one in one.

It seemed to me interestingly. And, then already, as it happens in job to dreams, you start to reflect: and to what it all it was? What from this it will turn out? Here, as with "Traitor". I simply re-read before a dream of "the Technician of the Big Kiev".

I still consider, that Vohe it was necessary to write this book of years through five-six. Because it has not held on it. But at me... It is said that it is a parody to "Patrol", and I did not read this "Patrol"! I have read "patrol" much later and absolutely for other book. And it was "the Technician of the Big Kiev" and, anything else.

I consider, that at Vohi there is a book proryvnaja, but it should grow up. Because it, in general has filled up this thing. It could be a nail and a hit, because the world which it there has described - cosy, accurate, absolutely viable. It could make it. So that all from this book it was good. Voha it has not held on. And I it state this my opinion not hesitating.

vlad as happens, that you has started to write. Whence roots grow?

-- The first book which I have read independently (me was six years), it was the "Winnie-the-Pooh", the second book which I have read independently, it was collection Hola Klementa - "Expedition Gravitation" and "At a critical point". After that... It was necessary to write a fantasy.

You then also the beginnings?

-- No. I have started to write a fantasy only in twenty five years. Then I have made the first book. And, in general, I always had certain literary abilities. And that I have gone on journalism faculty is it was simple that... The Journalism during Soviet time is there was a good exit on the first book. So all was utilitarian, but the way of another at me was not. I wished to write, to write a fantasy and I dreamt to become the writer. It was impossible to write a fantasy, I have understood, that I at first will become the good journalist. I did not know, that all will turn back here so. Here it is direct here and so. So differently. I in general was going to to leave in writers to years to forty, having saved up very powerful life experience.

You should to force have a seat yourself to write, you do not reflect at all when you write?...

-- If I can not write, I do not write. I now very fine vary. And on the first books, from twenty five to thirty I has lived the whole life not only in books, but also lichnostno. Plus, that I have gone through in these books, it has appeared very good psihoterpiej from any very serious vital problems of which I have got rid. And, now, by and large, I realise any projects of ninety eighth. Any things which to me then have dreamt, became then. They are a pity for throwing, and to do it is necessary already absolutely other things. I am simple now in the crisis of middle age aggravated with very heavy birth of the child and if I can not write, I do not write, certainly. I not that force myself, but I somehow plan it, certainly. A complicated question, I can not answer it. I not grafoman, here am exact. Well, on gramme... Excuse it it is aggravated by that I since sixteen years write for money. I speak often it, but is the fact. It is my bread, my money, my job and at me to it absolutely other relation.

Than grafoman from the writer differs?

-- To tell the truth, me the question grafomanii, does not excite. I would like to be such: has met, it is necessary to run and write. I would like to be such to write every day, how to write, naturally enough. A lot of prophetic which at me were thought up, thought out - and it it would not be desirable to write. And there are things which at me were thought up several years ago and as I it name - has become rotten.

Recently I have written the story first in a life fantastic, Vase to the Miller have given, vasja the Miller has filled up the collection, well there to this story other places were...

Very often arising moment... Has thought up rasskazik, it with me happens very often. I do not know Russian visionary who could such idea to register. A pornography at us can write very many people, and about nightmen mentally retarded (because who will work for us still, moreover in the water drain, moreover in the next century)... The Story, naturally, is called "the Harmful trade". It not everyone undertakes. I wished to write it in the last summer, this summer. Villages to write its this autumn. And it on sheet approximately. Villages, has registered... I Feel - boredom mortal. Has started to play with language. Has started language to lower in accuracy to the graphic form when in accuracy informal conversation is reproduced. When not "that", and "cho". It was pleasant. It became difficult. Has still complicated. In general it became dreary. Two times found, specified all within the limits of this concept, and then already I understand: Children, action occurs somewhere in Yakutia, and a dialect at them any, approximately, the White Sea, here is everything, Arkhangelsk... But already all so has turned out... And and a horse-radish with it! You understand, here...

I think, that it will get to any my collection after the big thing. But, basically, there was a question, probably it takes in the noncommercial limited book about toilets in cultures of the world. Peter there podsuetilsja. And the story has turned out very ridiculous.

By the way, as I did it for Vasi the Miller there on an action course fills in with a shit street of the cosmonaut of the Miller.

The cult character. Like Semetsky of which kill all time...

-- Well, yes, you see at me a badge "Fan club of colonel Popova".

Well, though you explain, what is it?!.

Further the explanation of that such a fan club of colonel Popova follows. However a secret to open to us have forbidden, and consequently we have no right to tell who such this colonel Popov and why the group of the largest visionaries was organised in its fan club and carries special badges as a distinctive sign.

-- Understand? Here it already absolutely adult level. JUrika Semetsky we already naubivali...

By the way, why writers consider as cynics? It is said that the writer necessarily becomes cynical necessarily because it should be above a problem, over a life when he writes. There is something sacred?

-- I, probably do not get to this category, absolutely any side because my cynicism which is inherent in me, it was already generated to years to twenty five. That is "to". As to sacred it is perfect lichnostno. If it is, it and will be. You understand, obstebat all is possible. To turn all is possible and thus to remain in frameworks not troganija sacred. But, besides, sacred at everyone the. But, anyway that I write... Those large forms which I write... I do not think, have what is it affected me, as on the person. Because, my installations, in frameworks to which I write are installations human. That's all.

Very often say, that the hero at you only one. It can look differently and to be in different situations and times, but it always the same person.

-- The matter is that I do not know, of course, that will be further, but to the last, let us assume, year, I advanced certain enough image... We Will tell so: here these estimations, these words, they were distributed from one accurately outlined party. For this purpose, who perceives organically my hero, it, just, very wide spectrum. It, as a rule, the person who estimates the acts and thinks of in what they will result to consequences. This being - without dependence from that, what is his name, what its vital history, - but is adult enough and generated enough man though, it can be a little hysterical or, on the contrary, it can be concrete, subordinated one purpose. All of them different, but it, all the same this all the young men who are halfway from the boy to the adult person. After all the adult person too can be the boy outwardly, but it is purely psychological internal category. And, can be therefore, there is an impression, that I write all time about the same person. And, especially, behind the extremely rare exception, there it is written off nothing from me. There there is a pair of the characters who have been written off from me, but they with such additives, that they are strongly enough carried. But, as the main positive character, me interested until recently, the character who thinks, estimates, and tries to predict and is always ready to answer, even if he has made a mistake. As one my character has told... I think it would tell so: "it is good! But, before to make a mistake, think, whether there will be it for you fatal!". Therefore I here this phrase, this charge, I do not sweep aside it, but I speak: children, you simply grow up. You simply grow up also all will understand. Here so. I now think aloud. Actually, I did not prepare it absolutely.

Tell please, what errors are irreparable, and what is reparable? Whether you come back to about what painfully to recollect?

-- It you about what?

About you liked.

-- About me?!. Here it is simple about the person?!.

Yes. Here simply person: Vlad Menshov. Whether he likes to correct the errors? Also what he considers irreparable?

-- Well, first, I simply tried not to do errors. When I have simply grown up and have understood, how much errors become.

I very much did not want, that my life included the literature. With monstrous passions, with farewells for ever, with throwing of juvenile children, with any such things what happen in female novels. I did not manage to avoid to the full it. And the literature was. And it comes from the parties, whence do not wait. My family would Seem... Olga, it here... All of us remarkably live... But, not the literature, so hospital here has entered.

I think, I have grown to such condition when I am ready to correct errors and, let us assume, in applied such variant, the person by whom I have casually offended because I was younger for two years... I have simply told, having given up as a bad job, with all the heart, here, something such. And, then, I for two years have grown, much have seen, much jaonjal and have suddenly seen, that, having waved away, I have offended it. And now, I can approach and tell: you know, then there was that and that, I make to you the apologies.

Far not always it appears, that people are ready to accept it. (To Something smiling) there Can be it it and it is not necessary, can be simple they and do not want... Anyway, I grow and I wish it all. The main thing, probably, it simply to grow and study, and as bequeathed, grandfather Frojd to take a broad view of the world the opened eyes. Yes, it is heavy. As it was in "White group" Konan Doyle: "My God, really you all time about it think?! - yes is not present. Simply our young friend when looks at the world, sees more than things, than we, and they will wound it more deeply".

Too did not prepare.

Vulnerability is that such? A lack, advantage, sight width?

-- And, vulnerability different. Me to offend practically it is not possible, well taking into account service in armed forces. I sometimes abused the subordinates in English. Also has casually found out, that the word "villains" of children will wound, unlike abusive terms. They have approached and have asked: you, what are valid, consider us as villains?

Vulnerability - very different. I very much till now, since the childhood beginning, will be wounded by unfair charges. To me approach and ask: what for you have made it?!. And I did not do it. Here it can wound me.

And there is a painful vulnerability when the person scans surrounding space and waits... I, simply, knew such people... He waits, when him will offend. In general, it is necessary any more to me, it is necessary already to the person with vocational training in psychology to approach. It any more in our party.

You - the obligatory person?

-- For itself - is not present. For associates - yes. Here, I should wake Bessonov in twenty five minutes, I know, that I will make it. And, here it is necessary for me, let us assume, the lever of a check point with a support for the first golf [car VW-Golf-1] means - I will long search for it.

What is vzroslost?

-- Listen, it besides not to me. Though... It is responsibility. If you have there even a minute... I now will try obzhevat it... Here such open, wide vision of the world, desire to understand... The most important thing - desire to understand the latent moments and motives. And, do not do much harm. And if do much harm - to whom it is necessary. And, the most important thing, be ready to answer.

The childhood is a lack of motivation of acts, first of all. And, in-second, not readiness to answer. The mass reader in a fantasy wants some spice-cakes, but is not ready to earn on them. Here, the desire of a miracle, but let it on me will fall down.

Vzroslost is, probably, the understanding of what to answer it is necessary also spice-cakes will not be.

Was very glad... That about it I was asked by you... And then, really, but if to ask about any things it is necessary about it. This most correct... What it is possible to remove from the writer?

Probably, interview.

-- Probably, his life, its internal relation to all. Me it interests more. Though, about the technician we talk much, but...

About "Interpretation of dreams"

... I suspect, that mum read my other books, but, probably, there there was no such universal factor through which there passes such love of the character. And here this my first book which was read by my mum (the seventh under the bill) and has told: listen, you have written a good thing. And it was awfully healthy. As one my friend has told: by and large, all for mum becomes. And it when I have already lost absolutely interest something to do for mum (and did not become, actually), I suspected, that it is not interesting to it... Simply it the most abrupt also holds this place with pleasure and so it has turned out.

She has praised it and has told, what is it the good history and it to it was happy. And this woman sixty years and it the manager department of exhibitions in Tretyakov gallery. It is known by all museum world of a planet and she knows the museum world of all planet.

The severe woman with very heavy job.

Here it is necessary to give still Lenke SHkurovichu due, he very much wants, that in a series "Absolute weapon" there were books unexpected and non-standard. He has approved this name and here itself has found (shows a cover)... It is a slide, but within the limits of this series - absolutely unusual slide for this series and it... As you have understood, it very fine pushes away the population. As has told JUra Burnosov when has seen: "Good to this skier would yield a machine gun or the naked woman on zakorki have planted. It - at all that Divov which I have got used to see".

But at this book of fifteen thousand has left with whistle, and further sale have stopped. Against "Saboteur" whom everything has left for a month, and it was crisis of years, that is two weeks take off at once, and it has left at once on dopechatku. This thing was on sale very badly. It now too has gone on dopechatku, but all the same...

(Whisper) All. I all have told!