The new novel is dedicated to the enigma of the great Eisenstein. "Eisen" is a buffoon-novel, a story in eight parts. It is neither a study of his creative method nor a detailed biography, but cinema in prose: a film about the world-renowned star of Soviet cinema. The book’s protagonist is a genius, and, as befits a genius, an enfant terrible, yet one who enchants with an energy that turns every moment of his complicated life into art. Was he the creator of desperate propaganda films from the early years of Soviet power or masterpieces of world cinema? A legendary lover or an ice-cold heart? An egocentric drowned in his own fears or a great scientific mind? This book is an invitation to reflect, admire, be horrified, fall in love, or freeze with aversion, and at times simply laugh out loud. This is precisely the palette of emotions that surged in everyone who once had the joy or the misfortune of interacting with Eisen.
Author: Guzel Yakhina
Pages: 544 (offset). Hardcover
Dimensions: 146x219x32 mm
