This book is before my eyes. "Another world". Red cover from London publishing house Grief. Foreword by Bertrand Russell. I read it for the first time when I was 15 years old. It was a shock. All communist propaganda collapsed, everything on which the usual universe rested. I learned that every day, every hour - at school, in books, in newspapers - I am deceived. And I trusted only one person - Gerling-Grudzinsky.

Surprisingly, the image of a modern Russian is fully consistent with the image of a citizen described in the preamble to the Constitution of the United States. However, I am not sure that I named the source correctly. But I meant that historical document, which seems to talk about the right to life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. The Russian wants them. Although he doubts that he can count on all this in his native country. And that's bad.

Think Thanks Henry Alford Village Voice Literary Supplement About what: “Dedicated to my mother” - such laconicism in the genre of book dedications is a thing of the past. Today, a decent dedication should take a dozen or two pages, notes Henry Alford and gives a classification of dedications from his collection. The examples are really funny (in fact, they are worth reading the article for) in the Village Voice newspaper, founded in 1955.

Katarzyna Janowska and Piotr Mukharski: Your story “Fire in the Sistine Chapel” describes the destruction of Michelangelo’s fresco depicting the Last Judgment. Can this scene be interpreted as a metaphor for the condition of modern man? Has the idea of ​​rights and values ​​higher than those established by man himself disappeared from our consciousness? Gustav Gerling-Grudzinski: Perhaps it is worth telling the background to this story. This is quite typical.

Dramatization journalism Gleb Pavlovsky Publication date: April 1, 2000 According to personal feelings The Russian political avant-garde greeted the dawn of a new era with slander and lamentations. An outside observer of the presidential election campaign will find everything they reach for in the videotape tray. Nightmare conspiracies. Murders, poisonings. Exploded houses...

The Importance Of Being Earnest Michael Kelly The Washington Post Why can't France, England and even Germany compete with the United States today? For the simple reason that they don’t take life seriously enough, says the editor-in-chief of the American magazine with the modestly dignified name National Journal . Irony, which is completely absent as a quality of national thinking among Americans, is a disease that is eating away at aging Europe.