《自学成才的人们》(Caмоучкц,1997—1998)是俄罗斯当代作家安东·亚历山德罗维奇·乌特金(АнтонАлександровичУткин,1967—)的成名作之一,1998年首发于《新世界》杂志第12期,1999年出单行本,2002年译成德语在维也纳出版,2015年8月中文版由北京大学出版社出版。这部小说和1996年发表的长篇小说《环舞》(Хоровоб,1991—1995)一起为乌特金赢得了文学声誉。乌特金是70后作家,虽然出生于莫斯科,但是就像作家自己说的:“我是在白俄罗斯的土壤上成长起来的,还有顿河和库班河岸边,童年时常常去那里。我对世界最初的记忆和印 Caмоучкц (1997-1998) is one of the famous works of the contemporary Russian writer Anton Alejandrovic Utkin (1967-), first published in New World in 1998 No. 12, out of a single in 1999, translated into German in 2002, published in Vienna, August 2015 Chinese version published by Peking University Press. This novel, along with the novel ”Ring Dance“ (Хоровоб, 1991-1995), published in 1996, won Uttrak a literary reputation. Utkin, a post-70s writer, was born in Moscow, but as the writer himself said: ”I grew up in the soil of Belarus, along with the banks of the Don and Kuban rivers, where I often go when I was a child. The first memory of the world and India