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Inna Bulkina. Heidegger from Petrovka. Reviews
Heidegger from Petrovka
Inna Bulkina
Dear reader! You can enter into a debate with the author of this article, write about it, which will be published on this page.
The article touches on an important topic - the formation of a general level of culture. Recently I was in Kyiv - books (good and smart) are in short supply, Bookstores - once or twice and lost. Books, however, as in Moscow, are expensive (it should be taken into account that salaries in Moscow are higher). It seems that oxygen is being deliberately cut off to those who want to join world culture. Against this background, "Sofia" is worthy
publishing house
The problems of cultural impoverishment of young people in isolation from world values will have an extremely negative impact on the life of society. The time is not far off when today's young people will reach the age of political capacity.
In addition, it is impossible to understand the beauty of national culture without getting acquainted with the masterpieces of world culture.
Books should be cheap and varied, and young people should be prepared by a national education program
world cultural values. In its environment it is necessary to develop
the prestige of universal human culture with national elements.
P/S. I apologize for the confusion.21.8.2001 13:32
Artyom
Moscow, Russia.
Just now I read in the same “Russian Journal” about the last Moscow book fair. I hasten to note that the author complains about the same dominance of esotericism in Moscow. Obviously, this is a general feature of transitional societies.
And about another article. “nevblagany” is translated from Ukrainian as “relentless,” and “frantic” corresponds to the Ukrainian “lack of self-control.” Admitted negligence indicates disrespect for the subject in question /which is also emphasized intentionally/. It is assumed that a person writing about this or that literature should know the language of this literature, but if not, then it would be nice to have at least a dictionary at hand. Otherwise, everything written does not look very convincing. And this is a pity, since in general the work of this author is of interest.11.9.99 0:37
Dontsova Elena.
Ms. Bulkina, thank you for the brilliant and interesting article! With your permission, I would like to ask a few questions.
In light of what you write about, what is the fate of the former cultural elite, let’s call it conventionally “the old Vsesvit”? As far as I remember, it was read not only by lovers and admirers (of which I count myself and my friends) of the good, tasty Ukrainian language, but by everyone who was interested in literature. Rylsky's translations of Rilke were better than Russian translations, as were translations of German prose and English poetry. According to my recollections, it was better than Foreign Literature...
Last year in Lviv, trying to buy books by Vasyl Stus and constantly hearing the same answer “unfortunately, they’ve all sold out,” I couldn’t get enough of SUCH a shortage! It was also difficult to buy poems by Neborak, an excellent Ukrainian poet.
Did I understand the picture you painted correctly, that the demarcation occurred not only at the level of the mass reader market, but also in the so-called. "high culture" too?
Where has the fairly large circle of bilingual readers gone 20 years ago? I knew many (and it’s true, most of them were Jews...) for whom the choice of language was of secondary importance compared to the opportunity to read in Ukrainian something that was not in Russian, not to mention the great Ukrainian classics, which were chronically unlucky with Russian translations?
Thanks again for the incredibly interesting article. I dare to hope for the continuation of this topic in future issues of RJ.
With gratitude and respect,
Mark Pechersky14.9.98 20:17
Mark Pechersky