Остров Харона. The Island of Charon. Премия им. А. де Сент-Экзюпери / A. de Saint-Exupery Award (Билингва: Rus / Eng) - страница 10
Конечно, и сам Остров, и его главные герои, существующие в реальности, имеют свои прекрасные имена, но для меня лично они уже не столь важны – их вытеснит из памяти потрясающее ощущение свободы (!) от настоящего, прошлого и предполагаемого будущего, которое я получила, сидя, укутав ноги в плед… вернее, в плен – да, в магический плен прозы Александры Крючковой.
E. Tallenika, «Magic captivity»
I am holding in my hands a philosophical and mystical thriller «The Island of Charon», which received several literary awards in 2021: «Ocean, Wind, Sand and Stars» after A. de Saint-Exupery (Open Literary Club «Response»)4, «Another Reality» after Leonid and Daniil Andreev (Creative Center «Clouds of Inspiration»)5, «Running on the Waves» after A. S. Grin (Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia together with the Museums of A.S. Grin in Feodosia and Stary Krym), «Case No.» 2021 after Alfred Hitchcock and «The Book of the XXI century» in the nomination «Wings» after A. de Saint-Exupery (Moscow City Organization of the Union of Writers of Russia together with Non-commercial Partnership «Literary Republic»)6. However, I’ve studied some reviews to decide whether to read it or not.
And I begin reading the book to the music from Christopher Nolan’s film «Interstellar», which appears almost out of nowhere and sounds like a refrain on that very Island. I recreate the reality of events, because it’s to this music that the reader is about to learn how tender the embrace of even the most horrible death can be.
«Everyone has their own island here…»
The music of the stars and planets places me to the space-time tunnel «Island» – «Island», one of them is in the Sun Book, and the other one is in the Moon Book. Christopher Nolan with his film crew beneath my windows of the hotel on Tatari Street in Tallinn, 2019, immediately came up to my mind. I was watching the process of making his new film «Tenet» from the inside.
Nolan was focused and serious. He gave the command to start.
And I see Alexandra writing her «Island»: