9 best audiobooks voiced by the stars

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Ideal companions for long spring walks or picnics.

1. "City of Women" by Elizabeth Gilbert

Alena Doletskaya is known to many as the head of Russian Vogue and Interview. Editor, journalist, translator, intelligent and strong woman - she was the one who could voice the book of another strong woman: the writer, author of the best-selling book "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert.

The novel City of Women is a recollection of the elderly actress Vivian. She is transported to her youth and talks about the beginning of her career in the 40s - in a burlesque theater in Manhattan. Sparkling New York, the search for happiness, creative experiments, love stories - Alena Doletskaya becomes an excellent guide to this fascinating story.

2. “iTsypkin. I da sukin syn ", Alexander Tsypkin

The attitude towards Alexander Tsypkin as a writer is controversial: some love him to the point of fanaticism, while others swear on what the world is worth. But thousands of copies prove one thing: this author has to be reckoned with. Balancing between showman and writer, Tsypkin makes fun of his own popularity - just listen to the introductory word in this audiobook. His stories are simple, ridiculous and funny - like our whole life.

The audiobook includes popular miniatures from the collections "Women of an Inflexible Age", "The Girl Who Always Laughed Last" and "Goodbye House". Tsypkin invited his friends, famous actors - Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Konstantin Khabensky, Evgeny Stychkin, Katerina Shpitsa and others to read them.

3. "Return to Ostrog", Sasha Filipenko

The novel by Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenko "Return to Ostrog" is based on real events. The plot revolves around the suicides of the orphanage pupils after a trip to the sea. At first it seems that the reader is facing a standard detective story, but the novel is not as simple as it seems. At some point, it becomes an indictment against a system in which punitive medicine is possible.

With the actor of the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater Anatoly Bely, Filipenko formed a creative tandem. Bely also voiced the author's previous novels, The Former Son and The Red Cross. He succeeds in conveying the atmosphere of the work very accurately, telling the story so that not a single detail is lost.

4. "June", Dmitry Bykov

One of the best works by Dmitry Bykov. It is included in the "I-trilogy", along with the novels "X" and "The Fighter", and is dedicated to the Soviet past, which is very interesting for the author. The novel has everything: a love story, and the horrors of denunciations and arrests, and a premonition of war, and powerlessness before what will happen. Bykov himself voices the book, focusing on what is really important to him. The case when it seems as if the reader directly enters into a dialogue with the author. Sincere and mesmerizing.

5. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

If in childhood you listened to wonderful audio performances, then the joy of recognition awaits you. The audiobook based on the fairy tale by Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland" is made in the best traditions of the radio theater. You can travel through a magical land with famous actresses Maria Golubkina and Yulia Rutberg, as well as master of voice acting Alexander Klyukvin. And in the role of the naive and inquisitive Alice - the inimitable Renata Litvinova, whose voice will forever remain in the memory.

6. "Mumu", Ivan Turgenev

People's Artist of Russia Sergei Garmash needs no introduction - tickets for performances with his participation are snapped up like hot cakes. And "Mumu" by the Russian classic Ivan Turgenev is remembered and loved by many since school. This audiobook is a creative symbiosis of two talents: writing and acting.

Garmash tells a familiar story insinuatingly, as if living it with the author. If you somehow missed this book at school and think that the joke "She drowned" is connected with this work of Turgenev, rather correct yourself and get acquainted with the trusting dog Mumu and the gloomy Gerasim.

7. "Moscow - Petushki", Venedikt Erofeev

The postmodern poem "Moscow - Petushki" is the most famous work of Venedikt Erofeev. The hero of the pseudo-autobiographical poem is the intellectual alcoholic Venichka, who travels from Moscow to the coveted Petushki. On the way, he drinks a lot, tells cocktail recipes, has philosophical conversations with fellow travelers and worries about the fate of Russia.

The audiobook can be listened to in several versions, one of which is the author's. But the most curious version was read by Sergei Shnurov, the lead singer of the cult group "Leningrad". Shnurov very organically got used to this role. Who else can voice the story of Venichka, if not him - a rebel with a romantic soul?

8. "Day of the Oprichnik", Vladimir Sorokin

The novel takes place in Russia in 2028, which has turned into a closed country, separated from the West by an impregnable wall. Remnants of the past have returned - oprichnina, familiar to us from the era of Ivan the Terrible, purges and persecution of dissidents and dissidents.

Remarkable actors of the Russian stage participated in the creation of this audio performance and did everything to convey the atmosphere of the work. You don’t have to imagine how it all happened - you seem to see what is happening with your own eyes.

9. "Compromise", Sergey Dovlatov

One of the most famous collections of short stories by Sergei Dovlatov. The plots are based on the journalistic experience of the author - he worked in the Russian-language newspaper "Sovetskaya Estonia" and has never seen anything. Actor Konstantin Khabensky reads the book mentally, as if telling stories to an old friend. We highly recommend!

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