Letter in the snow

"The writer of writers. Mikhail Shishkin about Robert Valisere, James Joyce and Vladimir Sharova

Mikhail Shishkin was born in Moscow in 1961, lives in Switzerland. The author of the novels "Notes Larionov", "the Capture of Izmail", "Venus hair", "the Dark" and the literary-historical guide book "Russian Switzerland". Winner of the "Big book", "Russian Booker" and "national bestseller".

Robert Walser, James Joyce, Vladimir Sharov. In life they knew and loved only a few connoisseurs of this literature. A great life of their books began only, alas, after his death. So it was with Valsera and Joyce. No doubt, so it will be appear Spherical. To determine the true magnitude of such authors need distance.
I write about those writers who are dear to me and important. The name “Letter in the snow” is taken from the ending of an essay about Valisere. Dead writer found children at the Christmas walk, his body lay in the snow, like a letter of the alphabet. Writers become letters, and letters not know death.