Аннотация: Tatyana Polyakova and the huge print runs. The essay on the mechanisms of Russial culture.
Tatyana Polyakova and the huge print runs. The essay on the mechanisms of Russial culture.
Suppose there are people interested in Russian literature.
They see the name in Internet: Tatiana Polyakova.
They read materials about Tatyana Poyakova, they look at photographs ...
What can they add to the knowledge they already have about Russial literature?
Let's not dwell on topics such as the starts of aspiring writers, as the destruction of the national book market, but let's go straight to the topic of interest to us.
("Young authors do not know this rule and are trying to be clever. They don't just want to write a detective story, they need an idea, Dostoevsky! And after that, many are offended that no publishing house takes them. Then novice authors post their creations on the Internet: but there are only five views [inspections] [of the novice authors' work], of which only two [attempts] had read to the end and then scolded." https://yandex.by/turbo/minsknews.by/s/luchshij-stimul-dlya-tvorchestva-dengi-pisatelnicza-tatyana-polyakova-provela-vstrechu -s-chitatelyami-v-minske /)
"Tatiana Polyakova has written over 90 detective novels, which have been sold with a total circulation of over 42 million copies. (...)
According to the books of Tatiana Polyakova filmed "The Thin Thing" (1999), "Damn with two" (2009), TV series "As if not so" (2003), "Diamonds for dessert" (2006), "Shadow of dragonflies" (2015) "Moor did his job" (2016) and others.
Tatyana Polyakova has repeatedly occupied leading positions in the ratings of the most published authors of Russia. "(Https://ria.ru/20210309/polyakova-1600446604.html)
Logically, it turns out that Tatyana Polyakova has become a very wealthy Russian author.
However, there is some skepticism in the talk about royalties:
"- Do you follow the pirate distribution of your books on the Internet?
- I don"t watch. This is absolutely not interesting to me: somehow I do not have the opportunity to counteract such outright theft, and since the change in this situation does not depend on me, in any way, - well, why would I waste time and precious nerves on this?
- How do you think it is possible to defeat piracy on the Internet? How can you explain to a reader that they have to pay for the author's work?
- This should be done by the state. We even have an appropriate law, but no one is following it. We all hate it [such a situation] terribly, but to one degree or another, everyone encourages it. "(Https://www.litres.ru/intervju/tatyana-polyakova/)
I recall an interview with some writer [woman] on the radio. This writeress (her last name is forgotten; a lot of time passed off) spoke about income as follows. She meets periodically with the publisher and unofficially receives from him several tens of thousands (30,000?) dollars per book. Everything is built on trust. The rest does not interest her.
Nowadays such interviews are not in vogue.
Travel lovers may to recall the kiosks located before boarding a plane or train. Many people buy a book to spend their time on the road.
Yes, there are those who are trying to be like Dostoevsky.
There are those who found Priam's Treasure (somewhere in the center of Moscow).
But there are also remnants of the national book market - points of sale of books in obviously advantageous places ...
We were interested in the huge print runs of Tatyana Polyakova. We have not read her books and do not intend to read them yet. We will not say anything (neither positive nor negative) about the content of her books. ("Polyakova wrote in the genre of "adventurous detective story ". The heroine of her books is a modern intelligent adventurer [woman]." In our interesting time, the topic of sophisticated actions of a modern intelligent adventurer [woman] is not interesting for everyone - except those, who are a regular passengers of an airplane or train).
We have nothing against books-detective stories, we do not dispute their right to exist. We would be pleasantly amazed if knowledgeable people surprised the citizens of Russia with the incredibly large literary income of Tatyana Polyakova - income that is interconnected with the circulations of her books and with their film adaptations ...
[MMXLXII. The treasure of Priam. Valentin Kurbatov. The essay on the mechanisms of Russial culture.].
March 9, 2021 15:33
Translation from Russian into English: March 9, 2021 21:04.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Татьяна Полякова и большие тиражи. Очерк механизмов российской культуры".