Requiem is a detective novel by Alexandra Marinina , the twentieth of a series about Kamenskaya.
| Requiem | |
|---|---|
| Author | Alexandra Marinina |
| Genre | detective |
| Original language | Russian |
| Original published | 1998 |
| Series | "Nastya Kamenskaya" |
| Publisher | Eksmo |
| Pages | 384 |
| ISBN | ISBN 5-699-04416-7 |
| Previous | I died yesterday |
| Next | Ghost of music |
Content
Story
In the service of Nastya Kamenskaya a dangerous situation arose, and Gordeev asked General Zatochny to take Nastya to his place. Now Kamenskaya is creating an analytical department in the department of Sharpening and at the same time helping former colleagues to solve the murder of a young police officer.
Reviews and criticism
Ilya Ovchinnikov in the article “The Pendulum of Marinina” wrote:
| “ Requiem ” and “The Phantom of Music” seem to be written in the same handwriting as “ Killer involuntarily ”, but something has changed. And the matter is not only in pompous and almost identical titles ... not only in simplifying dialogs and complicating author's retreats; not only that Marinina turns into a moralizer and teacher of life. Her previous books were just fine as detective stories - in the best of them at least three storylines were usually developed, which managed to weave in the most bizarre way to the finale. In the last two novels - exactly the same line; and even the most perplexing reader will figure out the killer around the middle of the book. [one] |
Vyacheslav Kuritsyn notes metaphorosis in this novel
| The twentieth novel with the proud name “Requiem” revealed to the reader a story written from the perspective of knowledge: not so much Nastya Kamenskaya investigated the morals of show business, but the already sophisticated Alexandra Marinina exposed them to us. And if in one of the early texts the appearance of a man by the name of Rudin, who runs a Sochi film festival, did not violate Mark Rudinshtein’s privacy at all, because it was a naive and completely speculative device, then in Requiem the author cynically exploits the story of Pugacheva and Kirkorov, clearly making it clear that knows more than us. |
Kuritsyn reproaches “Requiem” for self-confident intonation: “as if the lieutenant colonel, having jumped over the next rank, received general epaulettes” [2] .
Adaptations and translations
The novel was filmed in the fifth part of the television series "Kamenskaya" (two episodes).
Notes
- ↑ Ilya Ovchinnikov Pendulum Marinina . Russian Journal , March 4, 1999
- ↑ Vyacheslav Kuritsyn Contemporary Russian literature with Vyacheslav Kuritsyn. Alexandra Marinina.