New intellectuals return quality to life In my early student days, having read a lot of Soviet critics and commentators of the late Herbert Marcuse (the works of the famous new leftist philosopher were not available at that time), I suddenly decided that I should do everything possible to contribute to the speedy transformation of Soviet society into a consumer society. Because the sooner it becomes such, the sooner young intellectuals en masse will have a desire to destroy it!

In literature, leftism, contrary to Ferdinand de Saussure, is opposed not to “rightism” (this simply does not exist), but to the mainstream. Leftism - texts and literary behavior. Because there is also extra-literary behavior - and here left and right differ (though not in the newest Russian tradition), meeting only in the extreme - to the left of the left and to the right of the right, that is, in the anti-center.

Many observant people, from Tolstoy to I don’t know who , talked about a child’s delight in suffering and incomprehension, about the anticipation of how everyone around them would gasp and admire when they were finally able to appreciate the sufferer. Then the special and the best will ascend to their pedestals , sparkling with the dazzling edges of truths and insights, found and honed in the darkness of misunderstanding, rejection and ridicule.

Oh, the charm of Heidegger's thought is enormous. A person who once falls into the orbit of her influence risks remaining there forever. This fate befell many in Germany. Already at the end of the 20s, the neologism “Heidegger” appeared here, that is, speaking in the language of Heidegger’s lectures and seminars .

T atyana Voskovskaya. Boris, you are a director of parallel cinema, why did you turn to unprofessional and, in the traditional sense, inferior people? Boris Yukhananov. Well, first of all, who am I? I am actually a professional theater director, first of all, because I graduated from GITIS - the directing department, studied with Efros and so on.