Sergei Anatolyevich Nosov is a modern St. Petersburg writer who in 2015 received the National Best, the annual all-Russian literary prize for the book “Curly Braces”. Perhaps in the future his works will be included in the school curriculum. Already now, some of his plays are being sorted out by students in extracurricular reading lessons.
Biography
Sergei Nosov is a prose writer, essayist and playwright. He writes plays, works of art and non-fiction. He was born in 1957 on February 19 in St. Petersburg, then back in Leningrad. Now the writer is 58 years old. He graduated from two institutes in St. Petersburg: Aviation Instrumentation and Gorky Literary. First he worked in the first specialty, then went into journalism. He was an editor in the magazine "Bonfire", worked on the radio.
How it all began?
In his third year at the Leningrad Institute, he began to write poetry. According to the author himself, it happened to him quite suddenly, as if they had hit him in the head with a big book. Most of those first poems burned.
The literary debut took place in 1980. Aurora magazine published his poems. The first prose book was published in 1990 - "Below, under the stars." Sergey Nosov is a writer whose novels have repeatedly been included in the short lists of awards "National Bestseller" and "Russian Booker". In addition, he is the finalist of the seventh season of yet another literary prize - The Big Book. In 1998 Sergey Anatolyevich received the Golden Pen journalism award.
Playwright
Sergey Anatolyevich has written more than twenty plays. They are successfully staged in theaters. His favorite genre is tragicomedy. In addition, he writes radio plays, mainly for children, co-authored with the poet Grigoryev. He also wrote scripts in Russian classics for radio shows.
Nosov neglects theatrical conventions, which is why his plays become paradoxical, and the dialogues are very lively. Sergey Anatolyevich’s plays are liked not only by the audience, but also by the readers. They have been reprinted several times in various magazines and collections. He received the Tolubeev Prize as a playwright for researching the artistic nature of dramatic absurdity.
The most famous plays: Don Pedro, Berendey and The Way of Columbus.
Similarity to Gogol
Often, the writing style of Sergei Anatolyevich Nosov is compared with the style of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol. Sergei Nosov is a modern writer, and he writes in the modern Russian language, but was brought up in Russian classics and since childhood loves Gogol, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy. In addition to educating on good literature, which affected the author’s letter, he also loves phantasmagoria, just like Gogol. Plus, the surname of the writer causes associations in reading people with the story of Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol “Nose”, that is, his name is somewhat “Gogolevskaya”.
Even as a child, Nosov consciously studied with Gogol to tell scary stories. Then in the summer he had a rest in a pioneer camp, and in children's summer camps, as you know, scary stories are very appreciated. Sergei Anatolyevich did not yet know that he would become a writer, but he had already borrowed experience from the classics.
Sergey Nosov: non-fiction books
Until 2008, Sergei Anatolyevich did not try himself in the genre of journalism, except for his journal columns at the beginning of the literary path. And in 2008, the book "The Secret Life of St. Petersburg Monuments" was published. The book was attributed to the genre of “another local history”, the author himself calls his texts essays or essays. The author did not search for familiar monuments, but those that are little known, those that are not written in guidebooks. He recognized their story and told it to the reader. The monuments in this book look like mysterious aliens.
Also in 2008, a collection of Nosov's essays “Museum of Circumstances” was published.
The novel “Braces” by Sergei Nosov
This is the sixth novel of the writer, written in the genre of tragicomedy. It combines magical realism and absurdity. Like all Nosov’s texts, he is also filled with good irony. The novel was created for ten years, periodically the writer threw his manuscript, and then returned to it again.
In “Braces” Nosov disguised in his characters real people belonging to the so-called St. Petersburg vip party, as well as his own books.
The plot of the novel is that the mathematician Kapitonov goes to St. Petersburg to the constituent congress of illusionists, or a congress of micromages, as they call themselves. Kapitonov can guess the double-digit numbers that other people make up. How he does it, he himself does not understand, the ability appeared unexpectedly in times of stress. Upon arrival, Kapitonov meets the ex-wife of his colleague Mukhin. She gives him the diary of her husband, which he kept before committing suicide. The reader over the course of the story observes how the micromage congress takes place, and together with Kapitonov reads Mukhin’s diary.
Sergei Nosov is a uniquely talented writer, but he did not expect his novel with text in the text to receive the National Bestseller Award. However, the jury appreciated his work.