NasNet: issue 2 Sergey Kuznetsov Publication date: May 24, 2000 Titles Voting number one From the list of old titles, virtually all of them have been rejected, I will leave two and add more sent by readers (in parentheses - who suggested what). Voting will continue for another week, after which I will reserve the right to choose what I like best.

Pascal Quignard. Sex and fear. - M.: Text, 2000. Pascal Quignard's Sex and Fear, published in 1994 by Gallimard, has now been translated by Text. The reader is familiar with the delightful Kinyarovsky “Notes on the Tablets of Apronenia Avicia” of the same “Text” and, possibly, “All the Mornings of the World”, published by “MIC”.

It's good that it's not in the Canaries Yuri Orlitsky Publication date: May 16, 2000 The 67th Congress of the World PEN Club will be held in Moscow from May 22 to 28. Poet Alexander Tkachenko, Secretary General of the Russian PEN Center, tells the story - PEN Club was formed in 1921 in England. The initiator of its creation was John Galsworthy. At the same time, the PEN Charter was written, proclaiming the principles of this organization, which still remain fundamental in its work.

Pascal Quignard. Sex and fear / Transl. from fr. I. Volevich. - M.: Text, 2000. We are the fruit of an event in which we did not participate, but which once and for all plunges us into confusion, constantly reminding us of ourselves in any shocking image. True, the mental nature of a person can perceive and express the problem of its own conception also in the form of laughter.