Journalists (novel)

Journalists
Author Sergei Aman
Original title Журналюги
Country Russia
Language Russian
Genre Thriller, fantasy
Publisher “Zebra E” (Russia)
Publication date
 2013
Pages 224 pp
ISBN 978-5-905629-31-0

Journalists (Russian: Журналюги) is a thriller novel by Russian writer Sergei Aman, published in 2013.

Plot

The novel begins with a bomb eruption at a newspaper, Moskovskij Bogomolets (Moscow Believer), which affects the editorial staff killing a famous Moscow journalist. The main character of the novel is a journalist Sergei Ogloedov from the newspaper. The newspaper is very similar to the famous Moskovskij Komsomolets, and the novel's action follows similar to events in the nineties and early 2000s. The story focuses on the tragic love relationship between Sergei Ogloedov’s and Natasha Guseva, a fling from their time at Moscow State University that revives as they both join the editorial staff of Moskovskij Bogomolets.

Literary features

The book covers the time period from the eighties of the last century and to the tenth years of the present century. All fifteen parts of the novel devoted to newspaper journalists, each of whom has a real prototype, which are current and former employees of the Editorial staff of Moskovskij Komsomolets — Dmitry Kholodov, Andrei Lapik, Vadim Poegli, Pyotr Spectr, Alexey Merinov, Andrei Gusev, Natalya Zhuravleva, Elena Vasiluhina and others, including the Chief Editor Pavel Gusev.[1] They all in one way or another connected with the main character — Sergey Ogloedov, in which the author described himself. And really: the novel describes real events in which, depending on the situation, journalists are both saints and sinners.[2]

Publication history

The novel details the manners and methods of work (including unsightly), which reigned in the newspaper Moskovskij Komsomolets. Publishing houses in Moscow refused to print the book for nearly two years, because they feared backlash and possible sanctions from Moskovskij Komsomolets’s editor-in-chief and owner Pavel Gusev.[3]

The thriller novel Journalists has not been published in English yet.

References

  1. ↑ Andrei Gusev «Журналистика, киты и любовь» (“Journalism, Whales and Love”), Echo of Moscow, 6.07.2013.
  2. ↑ «Роман без героя», Literaturnaya Gazeta, 25.11. 2013.
  3. ↑ Lev Anninsky «Красавчики и чудовища», Trud (Russian newspaper), 13.09.2013
  • Journalists («Журналюги») in Lady’s Club (in Russian)
  • Сергей Аман «Журналюги». Роман/ М., «Зебра Е», 2013. — 224 с. ISBN 978-5-905629-31-0
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