“The team worked sleeplessly on it, accepting the death of the author as their personal tragedy”: a novel by the deceased Pavel Kushnir was published in Germany
“The novel by the talented musician and writer Pavel Kushnir, who died as a martyr in a Russian prison, was published on the samizdat platform back in 2014. But he did not see the light, just as the reader did not notice him, — says in the announcement. “Paul died in obscurity and loneliness.”
The book "Russian cut" prepared for publication in just an unimaginable 48 hours - “the publishing team worked sleeplessly on it, accepting the death of the author as their personal tragedy.”
“Cut-up is a cut-up of Burroughs, whom Pavel compares to Mozart in the novel. The novel begins with a homage to Pierre Guyot - “Eden. Eden. Eden”, only it does not take place in Algeria, but during the Soviet offensive in East Prussia. Like Guyotat, Kushnir explodes syntax and twists words: unspeakable atrocities destroy the Russian language, abolishing any rules. Pavel was an ideal reader of Mitya's Journal: it is clear that he knew not only Acker, Guyot and Burroughs, but also Ilyanen, Ulitin, Kharitonov - recalls Russian writer, translator and publisher Dmitry Volchek. “All my life I dreamed of receiving such a manuscript, made from everything that is dear to me in literature, and, one must think, Pavel intended to send it to me.” But I did not respond to his letter about transfers, and he decided not to pester me. Everyone writes that he was a brilliant musician, but he was also a wonderful writer.
A significant part of the novel is his diary, going backwards, as if running away from the events of 2014 that shocked the author, which he compares to the coming of a giant pig.”
“Yes, the writer’s body has left this world, but his spirit, his thoughts and hopes, his talent and uniqueness will now be revealed to everyone who reads this book.”, writes the publishing team.
“I just read it, a wonderful text. It’s incredible, we all haven’t even heard of him,” “Unfortunately, recognition comes again only after death. Few people knew about this man, and he, apparently, was killed because he simply was not famous and no one fought for his release,” “Pushkin was right: we are lazy and not curious, and we only know how to love the dead. A genius had to die in prison in order to be noticed and appreciated,” - social network users comment on the news about Kushnir’s “Russian Cutting”.
