The game

Overview of the book: the novel "The Game" by the great Russian writer Yuri Bondarev, whom the Arab reader knows through his novels "Hot Snow," "The Choice," and "The Last Shots." He dedicates it to the subject of Russian intelligentsia, genius, and its inevitable clash with bureaucracy and the totalitarian system. A genius facing a controlling bureaucratic system that is like an octopus, and it is very difficult, even sometimes impossible, for someone caught in its nets to escape, no matter how talented – that is the story this novel tells. The protagonist is an innovative film director whose films elevate him from the local level to the international level, and he is contested by major global film companies. The bureaucratic and administrative circles play their dirty game, driven by filthy, inhumane motives that include lying, slander, fakery, envy, and corruption. The game takes on human dimensions as the author raises issues of good and evil, beauty, creativity, art, love, war, faith, justice, and the conflict of generations. The author's name is Yuri Bondarev. Publisher: Al-Mada.