Journalists (novel)
Journalists (Russian: Журналюги) is a thriller novel by Russian writer Sergei Aman, published in 2013.
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| Author | Sergei Aman |
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| Original title | Журналюги |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Genre | Thriller, fiction |
| Publisher | “Zebra E” (Russia) |
Publication date | February 2013 |
| Pages | 224 pp |
| ISBN | 978-5-905629-31-0 |
| Followed by | Everything Will Be Okay, We're All Going to Die! |
Plot
changeThe book covers the time period from the eighties of the last century and to the tenth years of the present century. The novel begins with a bomb eruption at a newspaper “Moskovskij Bogomolets” (Moscow Believer). In result a famous Moscow journalist was killed.
The main character of the novel is a journalist Sergei Ogloedov from this newspaper. The newspaper is very similar to the famous “Moskovskij Komsomolets”. All fifteen parts of the novel devoted to newspaper journalists. Each of them has a real prototype, which are current and former employees of the Editorial staff of "Moskovskij Komsomolets" — Dmitry Kholodov, Andrei Lapik, Vadim Poegli, Andrey Yahontov, Peter Spectr, Andrei Gusev, Natalya Zhuravleva, Elena Vasiluhina and others, including the Chief Editor Pavel Gusev.[1] They all connected with the main character — Sergey Ogloedov, in which the author described himself.[2] The novel describes real events. Journalists are saints and sinners in these events.[3]
References
change- ↑ Andrei Gusev «Журналистика, киты и любовь» (“Journalism, Whales and Love”) Archived 2014-10-25 at the Wayback Machine, Echo of Moscow, 6.07.2013
- ↑ «Роман без героя» Archived 2014-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Literaturnaya Gazeta, 25.11. 2013
- ↑ Lev Anninsky «Красавчики и чудовища», Trud (Russian newspaper), 13.09.2013
Other websites
change- Journalists («Журналюги») in Lady’s Club (in Russian)
- Сергей Аман «Журналюги». Роман/ М., «Зебра Е», 2013. — 224 с. ISBN 978-5-905629-31-0