Tomic Plotsky

Library of an idle person. Five books about pressing travel, food, sex, taverns and clothes.

Western literature with an epicurez by Rabelais was never eaten in three non -fragmented, drunk. The heroes of the Academy, in which the spirit of progress and humanism reigned. Another thing is Russian literature and philosophy. The hedonists in it are rare guests, and the only conditionally pretty hedonist Ilya Oblomov “woke up for a while, plunged into life before finally fading away in the“ Oblomovshchina ”. "-ICH" - as a form of public sentence.

The Russian people suffer from, together with the people, the writer suffers. Russian suffering is different: serf, voluntary, moral, ascetic. Heroic - to raise the farm, free the man, then pull it by the hair to the light, die on a duel, war, hard labor, gallows, lay a narrow gauge, but if you eat, then not oysters, but a raw taiga hedgehog. The one who lies on the couch in a dressing gown, a pipe and novel by Paul de Coca Enemy, a parasite, a pest. It is difficult not to admit a hand on the heart that this is so.

In zero Russian literature, it suffered the powerlessness of their heroes in front of the vast conformism of the vast conformism, they were generally confused. And although in as two thousandth could they could, how many significant literary things on the topic of pampering were not born. Robski, Sobchak and Minaeva do not count, because initially the phenomenon was non -authorized. A naughty well -fed manager or neurotic glamorous bitch clearly removed from Europe literary types. Russian literature with its cult of aschesis and the Came of GU to do not care.

Nevertheless, non-fiction about domestic and bodily still comes across. At the end of the zero, quite a few books came out, the authors of which are exploring, for example, domestic drunkenness or Western orgasm.

Peter Weil. Genius of place. “Hummingbirds”, 2007 Very unusual for Russian humanities (the Russian philologist does not go into the library, but freely travels around the world), at the junction of several disciplines and genres, the study of Peter Weil the Communications of a creative person and the surrounding space. The author travels to the native cities of famous writers "Borges, Joyce, Flobert), directors (Fellini, Bunyuel, Visconti), artists (Munk, El Greco, Velazquez), architects, musicians, thinkers, trying to explain how the unique atmosphere of the place influenced the creator’s poetics.

Igor Kurukin, Elena Nikulina. The daily life of the Russian tavern from Ivan the Terrible to Boris Yeltsin. The Young Guard, 2007, unlike the scientificly more strict and more alternative in terms of the conclusions of Julia Kulpina’s labor “Genesis of drunkenness and hooliganism of Russia”, the book of historians Igor Kurukin and Elena Nikulina does not explain, but describes Russian drunkenness in the historical perspective. The events of the pier, known from the domestic annals, are intertwined with, as a rule, unknown, accompanying them with wine jokes. Plus, a large number of documentary evidence relating to the actual everyday life: “Alekseyko, the clerk, drank drunk in the chapel, and took off the icon from Lavitsy - the Assumption of the Prechista, but he lowered the nasty water.”

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