My menu Rebekah Frumkina Publication date: April 18, 2000 In memory of William Pokhlebkin The remarkable writer and editor Mael Isaevna Feinberg once told me: “Give me the text, and I will tell you everything about this person.” Figure of speech? But Mael Isaevna was indeed distinguished by rare insight.

Preamble On April 12, the country, as they said, widely celebrated Cosmonautics Day. The press, in any case, did not ignore this event.

Yukio Mishima. Thirst for love. - St. Petersburg: Hyperion, 2000. “ Where can I find a person who has forgotten the words in order to talk to him?” - Zhuangzi asked. But if he had met such a person, what would the conversation have led to? What if a person did not forget the words, but simply did not know them? "September, 21. Wednesday. The last days of summer. It has become easier to breathe. The whole yard is waxing with the voices of insects.

The collapse of the Gutenberg era Denis Bychikhin Publication date: April 18, 2000 Today's catch was successful. In some places. However, judge for yourself. (It turned out to be a poem). Net 1. In Izvestia, Alexander Arkhangelsky reviews a collection of stories by Heinrich Böll published by the Text publishing house. All of them have been translated into Russian for the first time.

Cultural guide. Issue 76 Sergey Kuznetsov Publication date: April 18, 2000 Interactive Which of the actors in the film Cape and Sword do you love the most? Alain Delon Jean Marais Gerard Philippe Errol Flynn Dmitry Kharatyan Mikhail Boyarsky If I forgot someone, add him. Name E-mail Movie Paul Thomas Anderson's new film leaves me confused. In some places it seems like a masterpiece. In some places the feeling that something is wrong here increases to the point of indecency.

Intellectual on the throne Yaroslav Shimov Publication date: April 18, 2000 Vaclav Havel: a failed experiment in the Platonic spirit During her time, Plato, sitting in the shade of Hellenic olive groves and reflecting on the imperfections of human nature, came to the conclusion that the best way of government is one in which power belongs to people like Plato himself - philosophers capable of thinking sublimely, renouncing from vanity and completely devote himself to the good of the people.