The novel features an Arabic version of “Kalima”
“The Wolf of Ideas” .. about a touching moment in Russian history
About the "Kalima" translation project at the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Center, affiliated with the Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi, the Arabic version of the novel "Wolf of Ideas", by Russian writer Alexei Varlamov, was published, which was translated by Karam Rustam, and the translation was reviewed by Dr. Tahsin Aziz.
The Wolf of Ideas is one of the best novels published in the second decade of the 21st century.
For Alexei Varlamov, his novel represents a "personal attempt to speak publicly about the Silver Age", as he chose one of the most poignant moments in Russian history - "the brink of falling into the abyss" - from the summer of 1914 to the winter of 1918, to chronicle the factors that caused the outbreak The October Revolution, and provides a review of the nature of that era and the lives of the people in it, especially those affiliated with the cultural movement in Russia.
The novel “The Wolf of Ideas” is a postmodern text, extracted from fragments of real autobiographies, and a paraphrase of real articles and narrative texts, presented under the guise of internal reflections, dialogues and monologues, in addition to permanent looks towards the future.
The novel won several awards, the most important of which is the "Student Booker Prize", and was shortlisted for the "Big Book Award".
It is noteworthy that the author of the novel, Alexei Nikolayevich Varlamov, born on June 23, 1963, is a writer of political and social articles, a researcher in the history of Russian literature in the 20th century, and holds a doctorate in philology, as well as a professor at Moscow State University, and since 2011 a member of the Council for Culture and Arts of the Presidency of the Russian Federation.
In the "Excellent Lives" series, he authored a group of biographical books by Russian writers of the twentieth century: Mikhail Prishevin, Alexander Green, Alexei Tolstoy, Grigory Rasputin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Andrei Platonov, and Vasily Shushkin.
He is the author of the novels “The Dull” (1995), “The Birth” (1995), “The Eleventh of September” (2003), and “The Imagined Wolf” (2014).
The novel won several awards, the most important of which is "Student Booker", and was shortlisted for the "Big Book Award".
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