Adelaide Metelkina. Tape 2

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Spring. Those who write about literature are gradually slipping into poetry.

Three March handicrafts came from the women’s floor at once: Ms. N ’s free essay “ About a Poetry Reader ”; Ms. I's rational topic " The End of Perspective " ( "What kind of heroism can there be in the politically correct, desiccated era of postmodernism?" ); ’s charmingly unkempt response and Mrs. J to the enelosh anthology “Time “H.” Paper literary reviewer K was previously mortally offended at me because I quoted only political and not art historical fragments of his publications. Exactly as ordered, in today’s text K -the specialist appears fully equipped with his tools, analyzing the stylistic and content structure book Dmitry Vodennikov’s “How to live - to be loved” , he notes “in the image” of D.V. “cracks that threaten... considerable semantic depths . ” And with the author of the collection "Cupid and others." (M.: OGI, 2001) K understands it even more gracefully, even more casually: “If someone is sick, then they need to lie down, and if Evgenia Lavut ” doesn’t know this, all that remains is to sympathize with her . This is the real critical class, the extreme height and nobility of argumentation. into an unexpected and unequal dispute with K enters True, the poet and cultural critic L , who published a review of the same book by E. Lavut in a color weekly. Both the degree of talent and the age of the lyrical heroine are assessed here completely differently. Another poet and culturologist, M , publishes - again - in a color weekly an unusually good review of five more or less recent (including poetry, the spring wind blows everywhere) publications, among which is "Feast" Vladimir Sorokin's . In connection with “The Feast,” Sorokin has already been accused in print fifteen times of inertia. The latest to do so was major critic N just last Wednesday: “If only someone could explain to me... how self-repetition, self-quotation and chewing on what was previously eaten give a “literary vampire”... the status of a megastar?” So M explains - intelligibly and sensibly: “It would be considered a drawback if Sorokin is habitually considered among the avant-garde artists... This is not a new book, this is another book.” . And indeed: demanding from a writer some kind of continuous achievements, records, steps forward, jumping above his head - the manner is not even avant-garde, but somehow... excuse me... Soviet. Let's leave Sorokin alone - we have Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, who has done nothing but repeat herself since "Time is Night" and at the same time (or even thanks to this) remains a megastar. And anyway (she took a deep breath)...

Controversy

Rule number one: controversy is unproductive.

Summaries

Spring. Not only the ice on the Moscow River is breaking, but also stable roles. Some - for internal, evolutionary reasons, some - for external: revolutionary reasons.

Vyacheslav Kuritsyn has been the editor-in-chief of the information service of the Ozon online store for a week and a half now. This decision by Slava seems to me... to put it mildly... reckless. However, he seemed to promise to do “Kuritsyn-weekly” for RJ in the same way, and the rest is not my concern at all.

The presenter of the “Correspondence with Dunya Smirnova ” column said a heartfelt “sorry” to the audience of the Afisha magazine. “I would like to apologize... Dramaturgy is impossible without conflict. Well, we had to conflict. Otherwise, you yourself would not be interested . ” Something sounds familiar... But - rule number two: a ban on rotten confession.

In the same issue of "Afisha" there is a text by Lev Danilkin about Boris Akunin's novel "Pelagia and the Black Monk". There are two nice things about it: a) this is the first time that the book reviewer Danilkin openly skimps on his duties: there is practically not a word about the book under review as such; b) starting from the postulate “a fairy tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it” (the fairy tale composed by Danilkin is quite likely not subject to this law: the water is dark), you will inevitably come to a sensational hypothesis: has Grigory Chkhartishvili been disappointed in Boris Akunin, has he been planning collapse the project of the same name? totally negative judgments I do not share Andrei Levkin’s about “The Black Monk”; in my opinion, the introductory part of the novel is very successful (the final part, however, nullifies the whole effect). However, if my hypothesis is correct, convey my sincere congratulations to Grigory Shalvovich. A courageous and rational act.

It’s time to congratulate the weekly newspaper “Book Review ,” which recently acquired an elegant color layout and an even more obvious commercial and business slant. In addition, they say that an electronic version of “KO” is about to appear online. I will refer you.

Vremya MN Unfortunately, there is nothing to congratulate on: it seems that by the end of March this media outlet will quietly cease to exist. It’s a shame, first of all, for the brilliant author’s columns - Nota bene by Alexander Ageev and “Teleteni” by Slava Taroshchina.

some problems also encountered The popular magazine Itogi . The Vedomosti newspaper commented on the situation in the spirit that the president of the Seven Days Publishing House, Dmitry Biryukov, is alien to politics and cares exclusively about economic gain; he always “positioned himself as a businessman . ” I agree - if we assume that Vedomosti uses the word “businessman” as a euphemistic replacement for the expression “first-class bastard.” With Biryukov everything was clear a long time ago and immediately; The only thing that seriously hurts my ears these days are the tragic roulades about journalistic solidarity and the clampdown on free creativity, written by Itogi editor-in-chief Sergei Parkhomenko. In 1996, watching from the bottom up as the president of the Publishing House, a close friend of Parkhomenka’s employer and idol V. Gusinsky, robbed and trashed the Segodnya newspaper, Sergei modestly kept quiet about shop solidarity. But after the August crisis, in the midst of staff reductions in non-state media, Parkhomenko published a fanfare editorial in which he called these mass layoffs necessary rehabilitation . I don’t have this lifelong memorable issue of “Itogi” at hand right now, I can’t quote it exactly, but I am responsible for the general meaning and for the specific “rehabilitation”.

I don’t have it on hand, but Sergei one hundred percent has it; It's time for him to re-read that column of his. After re-reading, open Ecclesiastes: a generation passes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever, and the one who positioned himself as a super-independent journalist will certainly turn out to be just a tooth in someone else’s mouth; carious fang. You should be silent, Seryozha, into a rag. It is not for you to appeal to the esprit de corps. The law of the jungle - in your coined formulation - is harsh. The oral cavity, no matter how cracked, should be sanitized regularly.