Oleg Zaionchkovski

ABOUT PETROVICH:
"On has to understand and appreciate »Petrovich« as a classical work far more than as a post modernist child. It is the novel of a contemporary author who is not pursuing any fashion either in terms of subject nor grammar. What can be more honest and unpretentious? What can be more truthful and more interesting?"
VOPROSY LITERATURY

"The greatest quality of Zaionchkovski’s »Petrovich« is not the preciseness of his character portraits but the fact that the novel works like a bullet following more than one gravitational force … above all Zaionchkovski’s prose has what the English would call understatement – a hidden irony, the absolute reluctance on the part of the narrator to impose his opinion on the other person: every statement is enclosed by a Barrier Reef of restraint and counterbalance.”
LEV DANILKIN, AFISHA

"Every insignificant happening is narrated with such attention, warmth and a sense of importance that it is transformed into an magical enticement … everything is transformed by Zaionchkovski’s pen into a magical kingdom, sometimes attractive but sometimes also appalling.”
MAJA KUCHERSKAYA, ROSSIISKAYA GAZETA

"The author of this book has a rare talent, he can see the cosmos in terms of microscopic particles and that gives his work a calm symmetry but also a tension not accessible to the majority of contemporary authors.”
TIME OUT MOSCOW