Background
Andrej Lazarchuk was born on the 6th of February, 1958 in Krasnoyarsk.
Andrej Lazarchuk was born on the 6th of February, 1958 in Krasnoyarsk.
In 1981 he graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute where he became a resuscitation specialist. After that he worked in many medical centers. In 1987 Lazarchuk entered the Moscow Literature Institute, from which he graduated in 1992.
His work was published for the first time in 1978 when a gather of poetic parodies was printed in the institute house journal Medic. The first publication of his prose occurred in 1983, it was the story “The only way” in the paper “Krasnoyarsk Komsomolets”. Once and for all Andrej Lazarchuk gained a foothold in the profession of a fantasy writer in 1990 after the publication of some parts of the epic novel “Late for summer”. The novel was entirely published in 1996. The plot of the epopee is a great anti-utopia about the world which gradually goes into the Apocalypse. Later Lazarchuk showed himself as an author of social-psychological prose in the narrative “Waterloo Bridge”. Then he wrote a thriller “Another sky” which can be referred to a “hard prose” (the novel won a professional award “Wanderer” (Strannik) in 1994). The author ascribed the work to the alternative history genre. The action of the novel takes place in 1991 and Russia was conquered by Germany in 1942 at that. And now during a political crisis European Russia has cut itself off from Reich and is trying to reunite with Siberia. A supposition that the universe is a ring that can create loops lays in the basis of the author`s alternative history hypothesis. The cycle “Late for summer” and the novels “Trankwilium” and “Look at the beast`s eyes” stand by themselves. The latter was written jointly with M. Uspenskij. The novel “The Babylon’s soldiers” (the final part of the trilogy “Late for summer”) also turned out to be experimental in the form and concentrated philosophical world-view content. This work is full of allusions, proposes a lot of interpretations and presents a purely intelligent novel. The writer believes that his works are not a fantasy. Defining his artistic method, he names it a turbo realism, affirming that “some things of turbo realism are like a fantasy but it is not a fantasy in the true sense of the word.” Andrej Lazarchuk carries on an intrigue in a masterly fashion, that’s why he keeps the reader in suspense till the very end of any work. But the denouements are a weak spot of the author. They can be inadequately difficult.