On September, 19 in the “Russian center” on the 4th floor of the Donetsk Republican universal scientific library named after N.K. Krupskaya there was the presentation of a collection of military writers “I fought in the Novorossia”. The presentation was attended by Chairman of the Union of writers of the DPR Fedor Berezin, Deputy Vladislav Rusanov there were Vladimir Skobcsov and George Savitsky too.
The storybook was published back in April of this year by the Russian publishing house “Yauza”, but because of problems with customs copies of the book arrived in Donetsk only in August. But August is a time of vacations; it was decided to hold the presentation in September.
A collection of “I fought in the Novorossia” is actually the first prose book about the war in the Donbas. The collection includes stories by 17 authors from Donetsk, Lugansk and other cities of Donbas, as well as St. Petersburg, Moscow and the Crimea.
Note, the book also includes stories of Berezin and Savitsky.
If we talk about the stories included in this collection – they are vary in style and genre. Some can be defined as an essay or diary entries, others are realistic military prose; others include elements of fantasy and mysticism.
Introducing the book, Fyodor Berezin said:
“The collection is very strong. But its circulation of 2 thousand copies for Moscow is very small. It was as a match that was extinguished before it ignited. And given that most of the copies was brought here, I don’t know what’s left for, so to speak, the greater Russian world. Actually, I believe that instances of this collection need to import clandestinely in Kiev. So that Kiev residents could feel what the inhabitants of Donbas had felt”.
Donetsk readers can get acquainted with the stories of the collection in the “Russian center” and in the libraries of the city.
Gennady Zilaykov
