Shattering someone else's fate is as easy as breaking the screen of a new smartphone. One awkward movement, and a crack divides life into before and after. In the past, Moscow State University student Ilya spent seven years of his life in captivity due to a setup by police officer Pyotr. When he was released, he realized that he had lost his future. Unexpectedly, Ilya gets the opportunity to take possession of the phone, and with it, the life of his abuser. Seductive revenge and a chance to start a new life. Love, friends, and money - all this is on Pyotr's smartphone and in Ilya's hands. But how easy is it to put on the mask of another person, especially such a scoundrel? What will Ilya choose, read in the book! In 2019, a film based on the book 'Text' was released, with the screenplay written by Dmitry Glukhovsky himself and the main roles played by Alexander Petrov, Ivan Yankovsky, and Kristina Asmus. Audiences enthusiastically received the film adaptation, and it received four Golden Eagle awards, including 'Best Feature Film' and 'Best Actor in a Film.'
Abstract
A young police operative plants drugs on Ilya Goryunov, a student at the Philology Department of Moscow State University, in order to punish him for his obstinacy. After serving a seven-year sentence, Ilya simply wants to return to normal life—but instead, he tries on the life of the man who ruined his fate...
'Text' is a novel about today's Moscow, about today's Russia, about each of us. About our lack of rights before the 'authorities', about our dependence on mobile phones, about revenge and forgiveness, about impossible love and unrealizable dreams. A truly new Russian novel, the likes of which haven't appeared for so long.
Just two years after its publication, 'Text' has already been translated into more than 20 languages, the French and German press are comparing the novel to 'Crime and Punishment,' a sold-out performance based on it has been staged at the Yermolova Theatre in Moscow, and a film starring the leading young stars of Russian cinema has recently been made.
