Katya Metelitsa

The alphabet of life

In general, he immediately explains: indeed the alphabet (texts of different lengths are located in strict alphabetical order) and really life, in the sense that a thin book is written about everything at once. Katya Metelitsa is the author of a very successful, in our opinion, “New Russian” project, is a craftswoman to detect the volatile substance of artistry in literary suburbs, in marginal - cook books, calendars, comics, alphabet.

The alphabet is a genre, although marginal, but fanned by a long tradition. In one of the Berlin universities there was even a whole seminar on the history of Russian alphabet. Katina "ABC" fits into the venerable series quite organically and very worthy.

The texts included in the alphabet are different from the short essay to the tongue twisted (“Cancer at the crab stole the Raccia”), from the joke to the only one.

The charm of the manner of Katya Metelitsa, among other things, is that she not only does not insist on a serious attitude towards her own scriptures, but also makes it clear that this is “so, Ponaroshka, do not strain, this is a game, nothing more”. Yes, the game, but what a sweet, smart, contagious. Game in art, in life, in the versatility of both. Here are a few names of “vocabulary articles”: “bourgeois”, “Vale and Genis”, “Bacchanalia”, “Vanilla”. Here it is encyclopedism, here it is - worldwide responsiveness on two hundred and thirty -eight pages of the 70 x 100/32 format. L. R.

Alexey Kruchenykh