An attempt at experimentally constructing oneself. Book 1: "Innocence"

The frank, provocative and ironic novel "An Attempt at Experimental Construction of the Self. Book 1. Innocence" is an autobiographical experience of the poet and translator Max Shchur. This is a book about Belarusianness, Soviet childhood, the literary underground and the search for oneself. For an adult audience.

The book is a fictionalized autobiography. The author himself defines the genre of the book as "mem-ugary." His attempt to understand what the individual human "self" is and how it arises is presented with the author's characteristic humor, often bordering on mockery: not only of the reader, but also of himself.

Who is Max Shchur? Max Shchur is a political immigrant, poet, translator, winner of the Giedroyc Prize (2016) for the novel "To Complete the Gestalt" and the Yukhnavec Prize for the novel "Where We Are Not" (2004). He has lived in the Czech Republic since 1998. Author of several books of poetry and prose ("A Letter Found in the Ashes", "Voices", "Kinoraman"), translator from English, Spanish, Czech and other languages. Editor-in-chief of the website "Invisible Places" (2003–2008) and the virtual literary magazine "LitRazh" (2013–2020). Translated the film "Criminal Reading" into Belarusian, in 2008–2020. collaborated with Belsat television as a translator. The author of a YouTube channel where he publishes his translations of songs and reflections on Buddhism.