Alexey Ivanov is a writer who is called Leo Tolstoy of the XXI century. The road to the recognition of his work was not easy. At first, he had to earn extra money as a watchman, a teacher at a school, a journalist. Now all the difficulties are over. His works are very popular. The writer has won numerous literary awards.
From fiction words to life's work
The writer Aleksey Ivanov was already called a new classic during his lifetime. Having started his career with fantastic prose, he soon turned to mastering other strata of literature, to describing reality in its real flesh, historically changeable and yet tending to strange constancy.
After the publication of the first three bestsellers ("Dorm-on-Blood", "Geographer Drank the Globe" and "Heart of Parma") Ivanov got the opportunity to realize himself not only as a talented and original author, but also as a cultural figure. To this day, the Production Center "JULY" organized by him is actively working, which has already released such a large-scale television project as "Russian Ridge", which included a film and an illustrated book about the Urals.
The writer is engaged in translation activities, writing scripts, willingly collaborates with cinema and theater. His active role in the modern cultural process and a sense of belonging to the history and value of his native land is reflected in the artistic originality of the works written by him.
Writer's creativity
All Ivanov's books, even historical ones, are addressed to topical and insoluble issues of our era, they are deeply social, national and piercing. Subtle observations of the incomprehensible and somewhat predictable human psychology in his novels meet with truly lyrical descriptions of nature, in which every detail is spiritualized.
One of the main features of the writer's works is to put the reader in an epic situation of choosing between three roads, to the past, present and future. But the secret goal of his work is to reject the choice between them. Ivanov, like no one else, calls to live with an eye, with history not only in your pocket, but also in your head. At the same time, his interest in the past is closely related or even welded to questions about the future.
The writer strives for universalization not only time, but also space. The native spaces explored by him in the genre of non-fiction are, as it were, re-comprehended by the reader, acquiring their multidimensional appearance in the artistic environment. Ivanov accurately photographs them with his word and develops these photos on the film of eternity.
Pictures of national life are often encountered in Russian literature. The writer, in his own way, portrays the boundless and familiar to everyone. Thus, it is quite fair to consider it the “golden fund” of Russian literature.
