Generation of the appendix

It seems to me that the conversation about the books of the “nose” of this year should begin with the words about Cyril Kobrin. Not only about his witty, deep and subtle book, which included in the short list; About her merits and the main character, Holmes, as a “exemplary person of the era of modern” (I quote a member of the jury Tatyana Venediktov), ​​a lot was said on the debate themselves. It is not said, in my opinion, the main thing. The possibility and context of the conversation about the new is exactly what the “nose” distinguishes from all other Russian literary awards, that with such a creak in recent years, the jury is given, what we argue about by the completion of each ceremony behind the glass and then we will pre -dispute on Facebook; So, this very vector of the conversation about the new in literature was provided with the Nose Award with the very first composition of the jury and experts, in which Kirill Kobrin, Mark Lipovetsky, Alexei Levinson, Elena Fanailova, Dmitry Kuzmin, Andrei Levkin shone. The “nose”, as we know and love him, albeit with all our current troubles, are the same child Cyril Kobrin as the book “Sherlock Holmes and the birth of modernity. Money, girls, the dandy of the Victorian era, ”and if the jury in the finale awarded her, I would have experienced about the same thing that you experience, looking at well -educated children who sincerely honor their parents. Not to mention the fact that such a victory, perhaps, would have made Kobrinsky Holmes a little better well-known and someone else, having learned about him, would have become happier from today for one good book-how happier the whole year has been for this book for a whole year. In a word, such a decision would be, in my opinion, professionally incentive and humanly justified. And then to say: do things that are obviously incentive and humanly right happen every day in our life?

The jury of the Nosa 2016 had the opportunity to make another humanly beautiful gesture-and then Sergey Kuznetsov with his “kaleidoscope” would go to the laureates. There is no place to write about this novel in detail, but it seems that the place is to say that this is a very important Russian novel, that it should read as many people as possible and that in order to make such novels known, in our country there are as many as two bonuses - “Big Book” and “Russian Bouquer”. This year, the experts of one and the jury of the other turned out to be so short -sighted - but what is so cowardly - that Kuznetsov’s book did not even fall into the short lists of Boker and BC. Alas, this is the most underestimated, more precisely, a non -named book of this season, and here the “nose” could slightly correct the skew. Yes, “kaleidoscope” is not quite the book that the “nose”, if it is faithful to his ideology, must reward; Yes, correcting other people's mistakes is not the task of this or any other judicial team. But now I am now exclusively in the subjunctive mood and only about human, completely human.

If you limit yourself to professional, then everything is simple here: an ideal contender for the award for a new literature, according to the results of last year, was the only book of the short list-Apdendix Alexandra Petrova. This is exactly what the hall said by his vote, in which - this is how it happened on the “nose” in recent years - good taste and philological hearing are present in a more concentrated form than in the jury. Actually, this is a discrepancy between the voting of the public and the circle of the favorites of the jury (not a single minute was included in this circle of Alexandra Petrova) and became the main plot of the evening. Social, I emphasize, the plot, since we are talking about a prize for which acutely experienced sociality and aesthetic novelty do not exist without each other. I suggest that everyone is indifferent to think about this premium incident as an inversion of social roles “Authoritative Talking Head” / “Unreasonable consumer of information on the other side of the screen, cover or ramp”. To be honest, there is little the plot of our life today is as relevant as this one.