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On Saturday in St. Petersburg, the writer and public figure Viktor Krivulin died. The most substantial of the currently available necrologists is here . On Thursday, in Moscow, he drove them. Rudomino took place of the Japanese-Russian Litcrugistol. For Russia, Grigory Chkhartishvili , Vladimir Sorokin , Tatyana Tolstaya and Boris Akunin represented. There was a full house. Here are the impressions of a certain listener published on a popular personal website, but here is a report of another listener who is printed in an authoritative newspaper. Pay attention to inconsistencies. In addition, a paper girl is convinced that the name of the famous novelist Oe Kenzaburo comes from the Caucasian word "Kinza". The entertainment network resource summarizes the results of the IV National Exhibition-Fair "Book of Russia" (Moscow, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee). There are so many surnames and events that they are difficult to fit in a single brain. Grant Laureate "Triumph" W verbally disassembles the freshly published novel by Vladimir Orlov ("Altist Danilov") "Diamond Valet". Everything seems to be in the case, with the exception of one thing: it is not clear why, in principle, to survey such nonsense in the rating online newspaper; From guns on sparrows. Ms. X (paper) energetically optimizes the “real estate” of Andrei Hales , and Ms. Y (network) tries to find at least some advantages in Nick Cave's prose ballad, picking Ilya Kormiltsev in the Russian folk folk. In a thin daily newspaper - a routine Monday review of the book novelties from her full -time critic Z. The Boris Pasternak is annotated by Natalia Ivanova (St. Petersburg: Blits), the “word order” of Sergey Gandlevsky (Yekaterinburg: U-Factoria), “Man from Nazareth” by Anthony Bergesses (M.: Text). Calm, muffled nature; Disassembled, moderately expressive graphic stroke. But the book block in the last issue of the glossy Entertainment Guide, made by an elite reviewer A , is the collective painting of the Flemish analysis; I will not ironize a bit. It’s much harder to praise than find fault, so I will be brief: in my opinion, but this time I worked perfectly. For example, about the "lower piloting" of Bayana Shiryanov (M.: Ad Marginem) I haven’t read anything better than the current note , and I hardly read it. The miniatures are equally convincing and stylistically brilliant and about Daniel Martin, John Faulza (in two parts ), about Bena Rrie’s “Hungry Road” (St. Petersburg: Amphora) and about “Justification” by Dmitry Bykov (M.: Vagrius). In the latter case , but almost too thin: "The large thing was given for the first time." In the novel, an archaic word “gave” a character by the name of Ehrenburg, and a character named Babel sarcastically comments: “Give” or even “give a thing” remained from constructivists: the same production approach, businessmen, on -duty request to include literature in a five -year plan, then to report ... ”

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A month ago, I reported to you that I consider it impossible an unbiased critical statement about the “watercolor for Matador” Vyacheslav Kuritsyn. “Execution”, in my opinion, is an even more neglected incident.

The novel by Dmitry Bykov is conceived and made under the obvious influence of the philosophical science fiction Mikhail Uspensky and Andrei Lazarchuk (“Look into the eyes of the monsters”, “Hyperborean plague”). This, of course, is not an epigonism (bulls are more lyrical than Lazarchuk and, unlike Assumption, is absolutely deprived of a sense of humor), but an undisguised, enthusiastic student. At all levels - from the plot to the speech. The plot of the plot is a bold conspiracy hypothesis that sheds unexpected light on the tragic periods of domestic history (I read the excuse only to half; I guess that at the end of the hypothesis it will be disavowed; however, in the systemic plan this does not change anything). And what A calls "the language of late -Soviet literature ... a slightly spicy autumn prose, already freezing, almost" almost no ", anticipating death and oblivion," - the general place of modern benign Saiens -Fixes; In addition to Lazarchuk and Uspensky, Marina and Sergey Dyachenko, Vyacheslav Rybakov work in this poetics ... You can’t list everyone; And it’s just little familiar with “odious” -sult genres - otherwise I would not have to nod here at Bitov and Trifonov. In a word, the “excuse” would have taken root well in the corresponding series of the AST or ABC publishing house, from whose covers gloomy sorcerers and curly Guria look at the buyer.

Dmitry Bykov, however, gave the manuscript not to “AST” and not to the ABC, but - synchronously - to the main fat magazine “New World” and to the editorial office of the prestigious and stiff “gray” series of Vagrius. The "New World" and "Vagrius" Roman published. In this way, the author and publishers seem to report to the degree and the world: the “excuse” should be evaluated by the Hamburg account, without discounts on anything, in particular, on the “low” genre.

Here, please, I appreciated the Hamburg. She said what I think about the "excuse" of Dmitry Bykov. And the sense? The sense is a zilch, for I have no faith. After all, it is known that I serve under the leadership of Boris Kuzminsky, and it is known that in the eyes of the critic and journalist Bykov Kuzminsky - the embodiment of universal evil, the personification of all that prevents literature from developing normally; Bykov himself prints about this with each opportunity. I can at least fifteen vests on my chest tore - no one will believe that my impression is sincere and impartial.

We move on. Bulls are active, super -working, widely discussed in literary circles. And many potential reviewers of "excuses" treat it ironically. " Dmitry Bykov - ... narcissistic schmuck ... I am against Bykov, because he is a stupid mediocre donkey ." Believe me, not one lion Pirogov thinks so. Consequently, the future opinions of Pirogov and his like -minded people on this (exclusively on this!) The issue will also turn out to be biased: not satisfying Hamburg condition. Will we not take them into account? But again: where will objectivity come from if any opinions are obviously reset from the accounts?

What to do in this absurd situation, I do not know. But I perfectly understand who is the initiator of the absurd. Not Elena Shubina ("Vagrius"), not Andrey Vasilevsky and Irina Rodnyanskaya ("New World"). The author of the novel is to blame - it is to blame for the fact that he did not sign his exemplary ordinary, having neither special advantages, nor special flaws of the opus with a pseudonym (as excuses "turned out to be a masterpiece, a breakthrough or fiasco, a failure - the alignment would be completely different; but it did not turn out). It seems to have raised the rampant, opened the cards - and in fact he hid the Joker in his sleeve. Unconsciously, of course, hid, instinctively secured himself: naive vanity paralyzes conscience and develops an interpretation cunning. So far you have not managed to read the "excuse" entirely, Mr. Criticism? You can not read, empty chores, what's on the forehead. You have not yet formulated a verdict, and Bykov has already been justified. The deck has not yet been dragged - and he has already won con.