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Ilya Utekhin . Essays on communal life. - M.: OGI, 2001 (series "O.G.I / Polit.ru"). - 248 pp.; circulation not specified; ISBN 5-94282-002-3.
The 30-year-old St. Petersburg philologist androck poet subjects the iconic space of a modern communal apartment to total deconstruction. The monograph, stuffed with semiotic barbarisms, might seem mocking if in the epilogue entitled “Notes on an Observer,” Utekhin did not deconstruct himself. More precisely, your own narrative image; however, for you and me, who do not know Ilya personally, this is one and the same.
From Ch. 4 (“The Danger of Cleanliness”) : After the drunkard has talked on the phone, the receiver is wiped with a cloth (sometimes with cologne). A drunkard's room is considered a source of cockroaches and bedbugs for the entire apartment; There may not be bedbugs in the apartment, but cockroaches will almost certainly be in the kitchen, although they may not be present in some rooms. “They are crawling to us from drunkards ,” say the residents (cf. the white lines around the sinks in Fig. 42 , drawn by the magic “crayon against cockroaches”; such lines can be observed in intricate patterns around the doors, along the walls of the corridor, in the restroom, but in mostly in the kitchen). From all that has been said, it is clear why they try to allow drunkards into the bathroom as little as possible.
Mikhail Berg . Literaturocracy : The problem of appropriation and redistribution of power in literature. - M.: New Literary Review, 2000 (Scientific supplement. Issue XXV). - 352 s.; circulation not specified; ISBN 5-86793-101-3.
A chronicle of invisible changes and insinuating rebellions on the approaches to the feeding trough. Provided with a solid bibliography and a comprehensive index of names.
Quote: If we compare Rubinstein’s discourse with the discourses of Prigov or Sorokin, the difference can be summarized by the assumption that in the pre-perestroika period Prigov and Sorokin were consciously focused on working with “sacred” things, and Rubinstein - with “favorite ones.” A slightly different register, a different keyboard, a different color scheme, a different material. Ideological, flammable, flashing brightly and quickly burning - in Prigov and Sorokin, and capable of smoldering or burning for a long time without burning out - in Rubinstein... The crisis of “Russian postmodernism” turned out to be synchronous with the end of the Soviet era, when “old sacred things” lost their inviolability and, therefore, energy, but new sacred things, symbols, concepts and ideas have not yet emerged. While the objects of Rubinstein's disposal - that vulgar thing that evokes not disgust, but a smile and the energy of sympathy - did not so much lose relevance, but changed their position in the social space, as a result of which the archive gradually turned into a hospice... The value of the archive is in completeness and representativeness, among the potential possibilities remained the practice of adding to the archive, its commentary and representation. And, of course, archival storage, which, however, in a situation of the decline in the social status of literature, turned out to be deprived of the previous opportunities for working with power discourses; It is characteristic that Rubinstein, the first of the conceptualists, had to supplement the list of roles he performed with the functions of a critic , journalist and columnist .
V.F. Markov . History of Russian futurism / Trans. from English V. Kucheryavkina, B. Ostanina. - St. Petersburg: Aletheya, 2000. - 438 p.; circulation 1500 copies; ISBN 5-69329-274-Х.
Russian Futurism: A History (Berkeley, 1968) was written by a man of a very extraordinary fate. Before the war, V.F. Markov graduated from Leningrad University, where he studied with Viktor Zhirmunsky and Grigory Gukovsky. In 1941 he joined the army, was captured, survived and, as a result of many adventures and wanderings, ended up as a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. Due to his youth, Markov did not develop a specific emigrant tear; the result was a rigorous and verified study in the spirit of Leningrad philological historicism. (The natives of the University of California, fortunately, did not yet have any methodology.) The funniest thing that unexpectedly reveals itself under the academic thoroughness is surprisingly personal assessments like “weak poetry,” “ridiculous imitations,” and so on.
Quote: His zealous denial of the artistic past was heavily mixed with his fundamental ignorance of it - the main reason why Burliuk became and always remained a futurist... Kruchenykh can be accused of anything, from having dirty thoughts to linguistic ignorance... Kruchenykh’s weakness is obvious . “Shift” turned from a poetic instrument into a parlor game. And yet, Kruchenykh is incredibly entertaining, and the venerable Bryusov was never able to satisfactorily explain the blunder noticed by Kruchenykh, “And your step weighed the earth” (Your donkey weighed the earth).
Aaron Zalkind. Pedology: Utopia and reality / Preface. K. Farajeva ; afterword A.S. Zaluzhny. - M.: Agraf, 2001 (series “Symbols of Time”). - 464 pp.; circulation 2000 copies; ISBN 5-7784-0142-6.
Continuation of the quote: The leader must always remember that his personal behavior is the most seductive example for the sexual experiences of pioneers. The pioneers listen carefully to the ambiguous anecdotes and stories exchanged between their older comrades. They will be keenly interested in both the pornographic cards that they find in the counselor’s desk and the flirting that the counselor leads; at all costs in this matter they will follow their “leader”.
Ernst Junger . Worker. Dominance and Gestalt; Total mobilization; About pain / Transl. with him. A.V. Mikhailovsky, ed. D.V. Sklyadneva; rise Art. Yu.N. Solonina; afterword A.V. Mikhailovsky. - St. Petersburg: Nauka, 2000 (series “The Word of Existence”). - 539 pp.; circulation 2000 copies; ISBN 5-02-026781-3, ISBN 3-608-95022-2 (German).
A. Mikhailovsky: “At the end of the 40s, Jünger called these three works his “Old Testament.” Well, what can you say; his anger dominated the day.
Quote: There is no doubt that a road guide today is of greater importance than a burgher novel with its hackneyed unique experience. Anyone who seeks to elevate this experience by placing it at the center of the work or battle landscape exposes himself to ridicule. The point is not that the new space cannot be grasped in literary form, but rather that no individual formulation of the question finds support for itself in it. To comprehend this space is the task, the special pattern of which has yet to be discovered. Only when this happens will it be possible to question books and their readers again.
Emmanuel Levinas . Favorites: Totality and the Infinite / Trans. from fr. I.S. Vdovina, B.V. Dubina , N.B. Mankovskaya ; afterword A.V. Yampolskaya. - M.; St. Petersburg: University Book, 2000 (series “Book of Light”). - 416 pp.; circulation 3000 copies; ISBN 5-7914-0023-3 (Book of Light), ISBN 5-7914-0083-5.
“From Existence to Existence” (1947), “Totality and the Infinite” (1961), “Foreshortenings” (1967), “ From Being to Otherness ” (1972). An attempt at a new, gentle, post-existentialist ethics is slightly naive and therefore piercingly lyrical. With the appendix of a fragment of J. Derrida's essay "Violence and Metaphysics".
"Perspectives": A shift is a movement that does not propose any lasting order, contrary to or consistent with a given order; it is a movement that already carries away the meaning it carries: the shift displaces the order without actually truly shaking it. It comes so quietly that it is already gone unless we hold it back. It penetrates and slips out without entering. It remains only for those who want it to continue. Otherwise, he already restores the disturbed order: they called, but there is no one at the door. Was there a call? Fortunately or unfortunately, language is a possibility of mysterious ambiguity, which people abuse... The lover makes advances, but the decorum, if you like, of speeches and poses is not violated by a provocative or seductive gesture - he slips out as easily as he entered. God appeared on a mountain or in a burning bush, which is attested in the Books. What if it was a thunderstorm! What if the books were written by dreamers! Let's throw the illusory call out of our heads! Insinuation encourages us to do this.
Nijo. Unsolicited story / Trans. from Old Japanese, preface. and comment. I. Lvovoy. - St. Petersburg: Crystal, 2000 ( “Library of World Literature: Eastern Series” ). - 448 pp.; circulation 10,000 copies; ISBN 5-306-00019-3.
XIII century AD Murasaki's ghost haunts Kyoto .
Quote: In the New Year, I served the sovereign on all three first holiday days; I can’t count how many bitter minutes I had to endure in this short period of time! The sovereign did not say directly why I did not please him, but I felt that he had already moved away from me in his heart. Living in the palace became more and more joyless and depressing. Only he, Snowy Dawn, who once loved me (just think how long ago that was!), often inquired about me, saying: “Stronger than resentment is love...”
Friedrich Schiller, Hans Heinz Evers . Spirit Seer: From the Memoirs of Count von O*** / Trans. with him. R. Wright , E.V. Golovina . - M.: Languages of Russian Culture, 2000 (“Garfang Collection: Literature of a Restless Presence”). - 384 pp.; circulation not specified; ISBN 5-7859-0184-6.
Schiller and Rita Wright: I want to tell one story that many will find implausible, although almost all of it happened before my eyes.
Evers and Evgeniy Golovin: When, due to someone’s indiscretion, it became known that I was thinking of finishing Schiller’s fragment “The Spiritualist,” a wind of indignation rustled through the German press. The Berliner Tageblatt, who was the first to be notified, said indignantly: “Now it is finally known who took a swing at the holy of holies of Weimar.” From the right, from the left, from the center they hissed at me in unison: for the only time in my life I met such unanimity of all parties. A conservative anti-Semitic newspaper called me “a perverted Jew with a pathological advertising addiction”; an independent socialist weekly grumbled about “a pornographic impotent who only knows how to catch drops of ink from other people’s pens”; one national newspaper suggested that this was apparently “a childish attempt by a mediocre boaster to turn the public against the Jesuits.”
Jean Re. The exact formula of a nightmare / Trans. from fr. A.V. Khoreva, E.V. Golovina; afterword Evgenia Golovina. - M.: Languages of Russian Culture, 2000 (“Garfang Collection: Literature of a Restless Presence”). - 512 s.; circulation not specified; ISBN 5-7859-0181-1.
The real name of the author of the story "Malpertuis" and seven stories included in the collection is Raymond Jean Marie de Cremer (1887-1964). Belgian prose writer, whom A. Dugin calls “a black science fiction writer and a real grave digger.” A garfang, on the contrary, is a white polar owl; E. Golovin is convinced that it “symbolizes a fearless search for the unknown.”
Quote: He died three weeks later: according to doctors, the body was rotten as if it had lain in the grave for many months. And when Joan Gellert was lifted to be placed in the coffin, his body was broken in half.
Thomas Owen. Dagidy / Transl. from fr. and after. E.V. Golovina. - M.: Languages of Russian Culture, 2000 (“Garfang Collection: Literature of a Restless Presence”). - 368 pp.; circulation not specified; ISBN 5-7859-0182-X.
Thirty mystical-fantasy short stories by the Belgian Gerard Berto (b. 1910), friend and associate of Jean Re . Thomas Owen is a pseudonym most likely contaminated from the names of two British utopians. Dagids are magical figurines made for the purpose of causing damage (for example, you stick a needle into a doll’s chest, and your closest relative has a heart attack). What is a garfang, see just above.
Quote: The next day, Myron Prokop lay dead in his bed. His head was thrown back, and there was a small, neat wound on his throat.
Vera didn't see him. Early in the morning she left with a friend to ride a bicycle. The one she told her mother about before getting into the saddle:
- You know her: a pretty blonde. She also has such a graceful neck...
Michael Cunningham. House at the End of the World : Novel / Transl. from English Dmitry Vedenyapin. - M.: Foreigner; B.S.G.-Press, 2000 (Illuminator series). - 494 pp.; circulation 10,000 copies; ISBN 5-94145-002-8 ("Foreign Woman"), ISBN 5-93381-030-4 (B.S.G.-PRESS).
The tragic story of an American misalliance of three: two men who torture each other, and a woman who tortures them both. The author's compositional skill is beyond praise. In the original language - 1990. For the first time in Russian - "Foreign Literature", 1997.
Quote: Just as a hypnotist sees in the person with whom he works only a field for sowing with his attitudes, Claire saw Bobby as an object whose success or failure was connected solely with her. She was the one - the only - woman he slept with. She cut his hair and picked out his clothes. Perhaps something similar happened in the past, when the bride came to her husband’s house so young and unformed that his inclinations and habits were automatically transferred to her, becoming inseparable from her own. Claire, who played the role of husband in this couple, saw for the first time that Bobby had some kind of life of his own outside her sphere of influence. Whether this made her happy or scared, I couldn’t tell.
Alasdair Gray . Poor and unfortunate: A novel / Trans. from English L. Motyleva. - M.: Foreigner; B.S.G.-Press, 2000 (Illuminator series). - 416 pp.; circulation 10,000 copies; ISBN 5-93636-013-Х, ISBN 5-93381-024-Х.
For the first time in Russian - "Foreign Literature", 1995.
Quote: I was called to examine the body of the one you now know as Bella a year ago, shortly after our fight. Geddes saw a young woman climbing onto the parapet of a suspension bridge next to his house. She did not jump feet first, like most suicides. She dived headfirst, like a swimmer, but did not inhale, but exhaled the air before the jump, because, having gone under the water, she never surfaced alive. After fishing out the body, Geddes discovered that she had tied a reticule filled with stones to her wrists. As you can see, a very carefully prepared suicide and, moreover, committed by a person who wanted to be forgotten. The pockets of her elegant, tasteful clothes were empty, and those places on the linen and lining where richer women have embroidered surnames or initials were carefully cut out. When I appeared, the cadaveric hardening had not yet set in; the body had barely had time to cool down. I saw that she was pregnant; On her finger one could see the hollows from the removal of her engagement and wedding rings. What does this tell you, Switchnet?
Peter Ackroyd. House of Doctor Dee : Novel / Trans. from English Vladimir Babkov. - M.: Foreigner; B.S.G.-Press, 2000 (Illuminator series). - 400 s.; circulation 10,000 copies; ISBN 5-94145-004-4 ("Foreign Woman"), ISBN 5-93381-039-8 (B.S.G.-PRESS).
According to RJ, Ackroyd's other visionary fantasies, known among his native aspens - "Chatterton" and "The Trial of Elizabeth Cree", not to mention the boring "The Testament of Oscar Wilde" - are much drier and more mechanical than this one. When reading "Doctor Dee" large goosebumps run across the skin every now and then; It is likely, however, that this is the merit not of the author, but of the brilliant translator. In the original language - 1993. For the first time in Russian - "Foreign Literature", 1995.
Quote: I could have sat here all evening, gradually taking on more and more new veils of darkness and shadow, but I shook off my numbness. My suitcase was waiting in the hallway; in the deepening twilight I took it and slowly climbed the stairs. The bedroom and attached bathroom were on the second floor, and I began unpacking my clothes as neatly as if I were in someone else's house. But I was so tired that I could barely cope with even this trivial task. I lay down on the bed, closed my eyes and found myself in Cloak Lane. It turns out that everything that happened before was only my imagination: I had not yet entered the house that my father left me. It had four doors, one black, the other light and transparent like crystal, the third green, and the fourth red. I opened the first door and the house was filled with black dust like gunpowder. He opened the second door, and the rooms inside were ghostly and empty. I opened the third door, and a cloud of water appeared to me, as if the house were a fountain. Then I opened the fourth door and saw a forge. Before I could move or do anything, a distinct voice spoke next to me: “Well, you’re gone, little man.”
Robert Irwin. Algerian secrets; The limits of the visible: Novels / Transl. from English V. Kogan and V. Pravosudov. - St. Petersburg: Symposium, 2000. - 458 p., ill.; circulation 5000 copies; ISBN 5-89091-129-5.
Those terrified to the point of dizziness by “The Arabian Nightmare” are asked to relax and enjoy themselves. The Limits of Vision (1986) describes the chaos in the brain of an aging moron who has read Blake, Dickens, Darwin and Teilhard de Chardin. The Mysteries of Algiers (1988) - a pseudo-spy mockery of the leftist intellectuals of the French harvest of the late 50s; Formally, it’s a little bit similar to Thomas Pynchon’s “Under the Rose,” but the content, unlike Pynchon’s dummy, is still there. Pen samples; Irwin is just warming up. However, the impression is still extraordinary.
Quote: Perhaps the only thing that speaks in favor of Chantal is that she mostly likes books about business people or written by them: “Night Flight” by Saint-Exupéry, “In Storms of Steel” by Junger , “Under Two Flags” by Ouida. But what captivates her most is her love for The Three Musketeers. Chantal remembers all their adventures by heart. She told me that on the day of her first communion she made a secret vow before the altar to live her life exactly as d'Artagnan would have lived it - if d'Artagnan had been a woman living in French Algeria.
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