Ebook {Epub PDF} Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin

Eugene Vodolazkin’s masterful novel Laurus is a tour de force of literary imagination and theological reflection. In a style reminiscent of Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov and imbued with as much tragic conviction as Nikolai Leskov’s Cathedral Folk, Laurus stands out as a modern-day masterwork of Russian literature. The novel is full of mystical, sacramental, and eschatological www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 7 mins. ‘Laurus is in one breath, a timeless epic, trekking the well-trodden fields of faith, love and the infinite depth of loss and search for meaning. In another, it is pointed, touching, and at times humorous, unpredictably straying from the path and leading readers along a wild chase through time, language and medieval Europe Vodolazkin has found a subtle balance and uses it to impressive effect.’Released on: Septem. “Each of us repeats Adam’s journey and acknowledges, with the loss of innocence, that he is mortal. Weep and pray, O Arseny. And do not fear death, for death is not just the bitterness of parting. It is also the joy of liberation.” (Laurus, p. 30)” ― Eugene Vodolazkin/5.

About the Author Eugene Vodolazkin was born in Kiev and has worked in the department of Old Russian Literature at Pushkin House since He is an expert in medieval Russian history and folklore. His debut novel Solovyov and Larionov (Oneworld, ) was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and Russia's National Big Book Award. Laurus, his second novel but the first to be translated into. I have been totally lost in Eugene Vodolazkin´s novel Laurus about the boy Arsenij, who becomes the holy fool Ustin, who becomes the monk Amvrosij, who becomes the eremit monk Laurus. Arsenij was born in the village Rukina in Russia may 8 the year after the Creation or the year after the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin. It is the late fifteenth century and a village healer in Russia called Laurus is powerless to help his beloved as she dies in childbirth, unwed and without having received communion. Devastated and desperate, he sets out on a journey in search of redemption.

‘Laurus is in one breath, a timeless epic, trekking the well-trodden fields of faith, love and the infinite depth of loss and search for meaning. In another, it is pointed, touching, and at times humorous, unpredictably straying from the path and leading readers along a wild chase through time, language and medieval Europe Vodolazkin has found a subtle balance and uses it to impressive effect.’. Eugene Vodolazkin’s second novel, Laurus, won both of Russia’s major literary awards, the National Big Book Award and the Yasnaya Polyana Book Award, and was shortlisted for the National Bestseller Prize and the Russian Booker Prize. His debut novel, Solovyov and Larionov, was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize and the Big Book Award. For my book report I read Laurus, by Eugene Vodolazkin Halfway through Laurus I told a friend that this book, even if no one else recognizes it, is a masterpiece. Then I looked down at the book’s cover and saw that my opinion was not so unique after all—“A masterpiece,” the Huffington Post raves.