At the same time, it is worth noting that the absurdity, which has so far taken as the conclusion, is taken here as the starting point. A. Kamyu . The myth of Sisyphus The project is a painful triumph of intertextuality and postmodernism. His idea came to my mind for a long time, six months ago, in the hospital, waiting for a doctor. From nothing to do, I sat down to read the printout of the Kuritsyn book about Russian postmodernism. Around, as usual, groaned and groaning.

Music producer Matthew Katz, who represented the interests of a number of bands in the sixties, sued corporation the Bertelsmann for him, the producer for the ruinous activities of Napster . It is significant that the lawsuit was filed just at the moment when Bertelsmann management announced that it could make Napster profitable. The producer learned nothing from hanging out with hippies. Linus Torvalds plans to publish an autobiography .

The English writer, preacher and satirist Sidney Smith once saw two women arguing with each other, leaning out of the windows of their houses, standing on opposite sides of a narrow Edinburgh street. “These women will never come to an agreement, ” Smith noted, “ they argue based on different premises” 1 . This happened at the beginning of the 19th century. Today the situation has become even more complicated.

Declasse Classics? (Declassed classics?) Andrew Curry US News & World Report All the obscenities of Aristophanes will finally be revealed to the eyes of a wide English-speaking reader. The dean of the classics department at Boston University, Jeffrey Henderson, intends to publish an uncut translation of the famous comedies. Well, now this won’t surprise anyone.

D Yekabr in Moscow is a bakery time except for musical critics. Celebrities come home for the New Year to give an indispensable concert at the Svyatoslav Richter Festival "December evenings of Richter" in the exhibition survey of the Pushkin Museum . Museum workers usually puff out their cheeks and make it clear that the art program "Evenings" is no worse than musical. Usually, this is completely wrong. But this year revenge is quite possible.

Twentieth approach Publications about literature in paper and online media Adelaide Metelkina Publication date: November 29, 2000 Duet 1 An excellent anniversary article by Vladimir Kornilov about Blok - it’s a pity that “Literature” is not published on Tuesdays . I can’t put a link, so at least I’ll quote: “In my opinion, the greatest poet of the twentieth century, Alexander Blok, has been relegated to the background... "The Twelve" is a great poem...

Books for the week from 11/29 Lisa Novikova Publication date: November 29, 2000 The poet Bakhyt Kenzheev began to complain about the lack of inspiration. Even on the cover of his new collection there is a dried leaf. Apparently, having lost hope of another coming, he considered that the time had come to publish the final books. And so Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Pavel Kryuchkov collected from seven , as the title suggests, books - The Best of Bakhyt Kenzheev.

All of our general , which has already become a common anti -Americanism, should be recognized in heart that it is impossible not to love America. Everyone has their own secret American love: someone has grated jeans and forbidden fruits, someone has the marvelous times of Hollywood, films from the Golden Film Film Tyed Turner, Clark Gabel and Errol Flynn with their divine faces and inhumanly even work, someone has slightly pinched from time to time, but not lost their own, no word, not a word.

All about Poetry 4 Discussion Miroslav Nemirov Publication date: November 29, 2000 Agnosticism The direction of thought that, when asked whether there is a God or whether there is no God, answers - ignoramus - et ignoribimus: we don’t know - and we will never know. There is such a direction. Representatives? Well, of course, first of all Brodsky.

Margaret Atwood's novel begins as the story of two sisters, one of whom dies under mysterious circumstances in the opening pages. The tension is created by the fact that the other sister, Iris, does not seem too upset by the tragedy that has occurred. Readers of " That Same Grace " know that seeing only a detective story in Atwood's books is the same as not reading them at all. This fully applies to The Blind Assassin, winner of the English-language Booker 2000.

“The problem of the third term was brought up by the central government in order to fight on a platform that is unfavorable for it.” Press conference by Gleb Pavlovsky, director of the Foundation for Effective Politics, at Alexander House. Andrei Madison Publication date: November 29, 2000 On November 29 of this year, the day after the interview given to Strana.Ru , Gleb Pavlovsky held a press conference in the most famous house in Russia - the Alexander House.