Swan Zero

They say that once Socrates stood in one place for a day, thinking about something (this I understand the store 24 hours!). But this is not about the " new literary review " - here in the extraordinary movement everything, "in one place" is just an enduring cultural and historical significance of the magazine and the publishing house of the same name. In a single denominator of all the initiative - except that the personality of Irina Dmitrievna Prokhorova herself, everything else can hardly be brought under some one pontoon. There is only one strategime: we are all, and more. Many episodes, many names. But all this sometimes resembles a languid and measured knock of a walled or promoted series. As one popular author of the UFO admitted: "We need to urgently write the next book so that they do not forget!" He was not unacceptable that such recognition was already oblivion. But we will not bury the cart in front of the horse ahead of time, can be displayed as the heroine of the Tarantinovsky Kill Bill-2 will break into the light of God.

Pasternak B.L. Letters to parents and sisters. 1907-1960 / entered. Article, comment. And prepare. text by E.B. and E.V. Pasternakov . M.: New Literary Review, 2004. - 896 p., Il.

I have a friend - an excellent gourmet and a bizar. In his youth, he decided that his body "dryly asks for grapes." And in the market it was not always possible to find it. And now he got this core from sweet buns - Kish -Mish will eat, he will leave on a table for birds. Of course, he was a clinical gastronom -amateur of white -toothed poems - he made a diagnosis by Mandelstam, and he chose the healing by "spectors": "Having used to open the raisins of melting from the life of sweet Saika ...".

The nine hundred of the harmonious pages of the epistolary are incredibly tidbine booty, which you will only meet the rows ... It is extremely funny that are often unknown to the correspondents themselves, okay marching straight in commentary on poetry, prose, biography of the experimental poet. This is for the minority, i.e. UFO readers, the attractiveness and historical usefulness of any correspondence or memoir. An increased percentage of information content, the number of raisins (not to be confused with strawberries) goes to the publication, this is its asset. Having enjoyed the roots, you can most, i.e. To show the population, the goods with a face - delicious and healthy vitamins from the life of wonderful people ,ubed blessed stories in details. And finally, with the look of the accountant who has bargained in the economic intricacies, smoothly go to the passive negative of this chubby "Grossbukh".

In this wonderful book about the correspondence of poets and artists, the deficiency is not hidden - it is here, on the cover and foreman, the question "why?" Of course, the book is called “Boris Pasternak. Letters to parents and sisters”, but was it really necessary to carefully cut out from the photograph (front side of the cover), and from the picture of Leonid Pasternak (the back cover), standing on the right of brother Shuru? This is not funny. But the foresight shines with humor - Boris Pasternak in the hat and on a horse ... Well, naturally - "meowed the horse and the cat neighed - the Cossack imitated the Jew"! But this is now in the order of things. What is there, the seizure of Alexander Pasternak - the children's "UA" in comparison with the "twins in the clouds", who abundantly flooded the horizon of "Pasternakov" publications.

On December 3, 1929, a son from Moscow writes to his father in Berlin:

"To the second State Publishing House ... I gave poetry without your resolution the head of your work. They reversed how they can do it better. They forced me to give my autograph right there, in the name of my father and son, as you put it, the pencil was given fat, no matter how much and there is no other. It turns out that I want to defy you. Please, and still it's too late.

There were two poetic "heads" of the paternal work, Boris looks up at one (1924), and on the other - he pulled the eyes (1923). The first portrait is discussed in a letter, it is placed in Two Books (M., 1930). Almost 75 years have passed, but they can do it, they can - "they can’t better." Now these scorched heads-non-referred the walls went to breed on the covers. 2003 - Borya looks down against the backdrop of a cubist -symbolic fabric - this is all the same publisher of a UFO (N. Fateeva. Poet and prose. Book about Pasternak). 2004 - the poet looks up, von - Peredelkino Dacha, St. Petersburg publishing house of Zvezda magazine (Ev. Pasternak, ate Pasternak. Life of Boris Pasternak. Documentary narration). Again 2003 - again, the head is down, the von - the Kremlin wall and the Mausoleum, St. Petersburg, the Publishing House "Academic Project" (l. Fleishman. Boris Pasternak in the twenties). And nod to the poor poetic chapter, until the artists will live?

But all this sad multiped number is forgotten, as soon as you go to the text, two-thirds of a familiar, joyfully recognizable but expanded horizon, with smart and tactful inserts-comments, with the highest intensity of stories about the properties of passion, friendship, love, struggle and resentment of fathers and children.

The deceased Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman had a favorite topic - the degradation of the epistolary genre. Whether it is a matter of Pushkin’s time, in the Golden Age! Then there was such a culture of the letter - not to surpass. Judging by the solid correspondence of Lotman himself, prepared at one time, Egorov and published in the " languages ​​of Slavic culture " - the epistolary decline certainly took place. Tom "letters" is completely uninteresting. But the fault here is, first of all, at the time when the panic fear of per lustration made the most cherished not to trust the paper (“Well, about this - at the meeting!”) And the most important “this” went into the sand. All this can not be said about the Silver Age, which calmly could surpass the Pushkin time in terms of correspondence. This book is the certificate.

And the iron curtain of the Soviet era forced them to "expand the novel an unprecedented, composed in the fall, in the rain." And I disappeared, drowned, or as Pasternako contemporary used to say, trying to get out, even to the crazy house, from the military system: "I died in the 93rd regiment, as the children die." Everyone is invited to the pool of this epistolary, whose whirlpool, for my taste, is fresh and newer than Nobel Exrasis.

Shruba Manfred . Literary associations of Moscow and St. Petersburg 1890-1917: Dictionary . M.: New Literary Review, 2004. - 448 p., Il.

A very necessary dictionary, a meticulous study, an excellent in fullness of the collection of manifestos - everything is fine, dignified, the word is not, - as the magic mirror says. As you know, this follows "but." So far, to go to him reluctantly. The feat of the book is worthy of rewards and enthusiasm, and even with all his "reference" - just reading. Remove the hat before Mr. Shruba. But not before the publishing house - in order to turn illustrations into such a blind Guryevskaya porridge, more than one saboteur had to work hard. The book, among other advantages, is presented by the trivial and regrettable literary fact - history acts as a hackneyed gramophone plate, everything is repeated again and again. Judge for yourself.

At first, in Russia it was impossible to emerge such a dictionary as “Shrubovsky” due to ideological prohibitions, when they collapsed, then there was simply no money. Finances for the study of lithobobes of Russian capitals were found in Bochum (383 thousand inhabitants, engineering, including auto -building). We are taken to the light "Opel". Greetings to the customs officer Luspekaev, who died under the white sun of the desert. In the Shruba reference book, almost every page has an ABBREVIA of the RP that “Russian writers 1800-1917: Biographical Dictionary. M., 1989-1999. T. I-IV” deciphered. A mug of like -minded enthusiasts who overcome all ideological obstacles, the dictionary was stuck on Pogodin (even Pushkin did not reach Pushkin!) - there are no money to release a fully prepared fifth volume.

And now, a quote from “literary associations ...”, for example, about the collapse of “ centrifugi ” (S. Bobrov, B. Pasternak, N. Aseev, etc.): “In mid -February 1917, the relations of the centrifugiists with Vermel have ended with a complete gap; Vermel did not suit the role of the sponsor without the influence and the intention of some members of the group“ to resolve the predestination of the predestination And to push him to the darkest gap "... A number of centrifugi projects of the winter 1916-1917. Due to the lack of funds, it remained unfulfilled, including the publication of the" third collection of centrifuga "already prepared for the press (materials for it were preserved in the Bobrov archive)" (p. 253).

And now the time has come to say “but” - for all the beautifulness, there are conceptual losses in the dictionary of M. Schrubs. And this is the trouble not only of this reference book, but wider - a literary approach. What to consider a literary association (so that it does not become, may this pun, methodological ease)? What is the criterion? This remains a mystery. And just as the objectionable figure is cut off from the right, then on the left, the left-handed figure was broken in the reference book, some associations of musical and literary and literary associations disappeared. Only two examples.

It is known that a romance, which is screaming from all windows of the era, nothing prevented from getting into the "darkest gap", falling between the chairs of philologists, musicologists and folklorists. Even his most refined representatives. Shruba strives for the fullness of the picture and therefore includes in the "literary groups" clearly excessive information about "parties" parties "(the collection annually, on the birthday of the hostess") or the very sensitive property of the gathering "at Pallada" (Bogdanova -Beli) - well, God may not be discharged from the song ... But there is no way anywhere and do not get it anywhere. Pierre d'alheim and his wife singer Marie Olenina-d'alheim, the creators of the "Song House", the Center for Concert and Electrical Propaganda of New Ideas in Music are mentioned.

In 1910-1911 In Moscow, the newspaper "The House of Song" was published twice a month, Alexander Blok enthusiastically wrote about them, Andrei Bely dedicated dozens of pages in his memoirs, whose symphonia poems cannot be understood without the knowledge of the texts of the lowest genres of musical urban culture. In order not to be unfounded, pushing on the literary significance of the "house of the song", only one excerpt from the "beginning of the century" white:

"The thought of d'Alheim worked on each concert so that it was embedded from a whole stone so that the song grows out of the song as a poetic line from a line so that the song rhymes with a song." The House of Songs "declares a number of competitions to the best translations of cycles into Russian, to the music, etc. Berns), a competition for the translation of 12 songs to the words of Goethe, on the translation of Müller's poems laid to the music by the Schumann, on the translation of the drama "Rama" of the Hindu poet Bavabuti, etc. " .

Hundreds of researchers and bibliographers worked on a full set of publications of Osip Mandelstam. They searched, but still missed a trifle - after all, literary scholars do not look into such a border zone as musical publications, and even produced at the beginning of the twentieth century by Jewish musical society. In addition, the question remains open: "The rope is what thing?" Musical or literary? Or maybe for the better that we did not find, otherwise we would have on the stage of F. Kirkorov or M. Razvutin, singing "your hand is more tender ...". The omission on the other, the artistic side - the Schruba dictionary lost a charming small community "Beski -Killer". Most often, the circle gathered in the 1910s in the apartment of Olga Leshkova, the girlfriend of the artist Mikhail Le Dantu. Of the subsequently famous members, except for the named - Ilya Zdanevich, Vera Ermolaeva, Yanko Lavrin. Here, the "drama" of Zdanevich "Yanko Krul Alban" was staged, a hectographed magazine "Accense Murder" (more than ten issues) was published. The community is interesting in that it was a completely decorated embryo of literary and artistic absurdism, when in the world it has not yet been smelled of dadism or zerius. In the twentieth-thirties, O. Leshkova, the archivist and chronicler of the group, was friendly with the artist Alice Porus, a friend of Daniil Harms. And the moral of the short fable is this: the boundaries and criteria for the approach to the era and - God forbid - the replenishment of these gaps.

Zhivov V.M. From the church history of the times of Peter the Great: research and materials . - M.: New Literary Review, 2004. - 360 p., Il.

As if often, inevitably erased from use, the lines were quoted about who "once ... inadvertently and probably at random called the historian a prophet, predicting back", this idea of ​​historical science was rooted in our minds. Victor Zhivov does not need special recommendations, and his book is in a common publishing formula for popularization: "Designed for a wide reader audience." No, it is not intended, but the stories told in it have the inescapable quality of "sixties" - regardless of the author’s intentions, are trampled into topicality. This property of the book is inherent in the entire modern theater, which reveals "man for all times in ancient heroes." But, let us say goodbye to us a heretical statement - is it not because the church fought so fiercely in Rus' with the theater that it itself no less diligently absorbed its laws and magnificent decoration? The Book of Zhivov is dedicated to two local, but therefore no less important, issues of the church history of the Petrovsky period of the Russian state, which made it possible for the author to enthusiastically expand the scope of the object for several centuries. One of the topics is the analysis of textological changes in the rank of election and delivering the bishop. The hero of another story was Stefan Yavorsky, the so -called "locomotive of the patriarchal throne" (the book proves the inconsistency of this later standard name Stephen's status). The newly essay of the Javorsky “Apology or Verbal Defense”, which is essentially directed against the establishment of the Holy Government Synod, is first introduced into the scientific circulation, and the carefully analyzed activity of Stefan closes the final epitaph: “If you look at the direct results, all these experiments were unsuccessful. Peter achieved his own, and Stephan had to be cunning, and to retreat. Nothing else could happen: the apparatus of power and coercion remained in the hands of the king, and he skillfully used it ... Whatever the subsequent narrative consisted, the narrative of the Petrine era is too poor and straightforward without the history of the struggle of church education with secular despotism. " Over three hundred years, the confrontation has shrunk, and the magnificent theatricality prevailed.