October, 11 2008

Organizers: the International Association “Live classics” together with “Amfora” publishing house.

Ludmila Petrushevskaya came to the Northern capital especially to meet her St. Petersburg readers.

As usual she wore an exquisite garn and hat and told the guests about her books, read “enigmatic tales” and showed animated cartoons which were produced by so called “Handmade studio”. Some cartoons stylized as silent films were voiced by Ludmila Petrushevskaya who read the notes in different voices.

Ludmila Petrushevskaya spoke about her literary position both seriously and with humor: “From time to time I hear that my novels are called “black stories” and I’m very happy about it because it could be said only by those whо haven’t read my books. I’m looking for the reader who thinks in the same manner with me, who opens the book and understands everything”.

“Black butterfly” is a rare case of connection of mystic novels, stories, plays, dialogues and modern city fairy-tales for adults. This collection of stories is made according to the simple principle: things change each other as if they are included in the author’s notebooks. These are not always tragic stories traditional for the author. For instance, there is a play devoted to the first marital hour of a woman and a strange male creature who admits that he is an oak and reproduces by breath. And all the fairy-tales have the happy end.

The book “Boundary fairy-tales about kittens” consists of a collection of totally new genres – these are absurd fairy-tales allegedly about kittens, in fact about Chapaev, Anna Karenina, Ivan Turgenev and even Lenin. The next section of the book comprises funny fairy-tales-riddles, it is a genre which hasn’t exist before. This extraordinary book finishes with comic verses as well as parody poems in rap style