SPRINGFIELD

Sergey Davydov

10,00 

Publisher Freedom Letters, 2023

ISBN: 9780993820236

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Сергей Давыдов

Sergey Davydov

Sergey Davydov is a shortlisted finalist for the Dar Prize 2025. Playwright, screenwriter, prose writer.

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Николай Александров

Nikolai Aleksandrov

Cultural and literary scholar, essayist, journalist

“Sergei Davydov's text strikes not only and not so much with social and gender issues (there have been quite a few works in this series recently), or with the emphasized focus on modern colloquial language that goes beyond the accepted normativity, on uninviting speech -- but, rather, with the overall almost tearful tone of the story, the voice of a man struggling through loneliness, social and domestic inexistence in a desperate search for himself and his place in a world that seems to deny him this.”
Лиза Биргер

Elizaveta Birger-Eroğlu

Philologist, translator, literary critic, curator of literary and theater programs and “Room and a Half” bookstore in Istanbul

Objectively one of the most notable books of 2023, Springfield is a story of the search and possibility of freedom in an unfree space. It is a very dramaturgical text, it is all built on a rapid exchange of lines, jokes, dialogues, gags. And through such a fireworks of images, the characters, young men in love from Togliatti in 2021, assert with all their might their right to be alive and to love each other. Even editing errors and repetitions within the text seem to become part of this freedom - to be as you want to be, to write as you want to write, without looking back at social conventions and other morals. Breakthroughs in literature are often set up as riots, but “Springfield” is no less important as a social commentary, its purpose not to shock the reader, but to see with the reader at least a temporary escape from the death grip of society and the state. There are no illusions in this text, but there is hope.

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