They liked to talk about sex, yes; in fact, they only talked about him, but they had no direct feeling at all. Platform Stylistically , Houellebecq's new novel follows the traditions of protocol-critical realism (with the prefix "hyper").

Social connectivity: Russian regions Katerina Sokolova Publication date: March 6, 2003 How often have you heard that in the West - especially in America, of course - people don’t communicate with each other at all? They just smile with unnatural Hollywood smiles and insist that everything is OK with them, even having just flown from the tenth floor window to the pavement. A common stereotype. How do we communicate? How do we answer the question “how is life”?

Horse vs. gopher Mikhail Edelshtein Publication date: March 6, 2003 Constancy always inspires respect. A year ago, Anna Kuznetsova wrote an article “ A Novel with Time Pressure ,” in which she exposed critics who speak “about... novels without reading them.” The list of hack-attackers then included A. Vasilevsky , A. Uritsky , A. Nemzer , M. Zolotonosov , D. Bavilsky , who had not properly read “ American Ajabsandal ” by A. Ayvazyan, “ Baby’s Big Journey ” by E.

Today , after a year and a half break, I am starting a new column in Russian Journal. For the first time, this will be a column, each issue of which is formed by a single text, and a text of a relatively canonical genre. In other words, this will be a book review. Books, however, will be selected with intention: preference will be given to fashionable novelties (I emphasize the word “fashionable”) or, conversely, to books that we read so long ago that we have forgotten.

1. Understanding Speaking about the image of Stalin in Galich’s poetry, it is logical to turn first of all to the so-called “Poem about Stalin”, or - a more correct name - “Reflections on long-distance runners”. The poem, written in 1966 - 1969 1 , consists of five songs (chapters): “Christmas”, “Oath of the Leader”, “Night near Moscow”, “Night conversation in the dining car”, “Chapter written in a strong drunken state and being author's digression" and the epilogue - "Ave Maria".

Feminine politics Elena Sherman Publication date: March 6, 2003 Gentlemen , there are few lady politicians in Russia. Completely incomparable in proportion to the female population of the Federation. Individual voices, mainly the voices of feminists and the male renegades who have joined them, are heard - and even heard regularly: how long, by what right, and let's change everything, maybe even introduce a quota for women in parliament.

And sometimes we get lucky. Sometimes, if time is kind, we live to see wonderful events, we overcome the traps of cultural emptiness, almost imperceptible, but making existence flawed. Recently, Ukrainian cinephiles were lucky, the damage was overcome: Swiss film director Daniel Schmid came to Kiev.

Di erste column marchirt... Hashim Zafarov Publication date: March 6, 2003 If we consider the election battles from the standpoint of classical military science, then in modern Russian history a rather interesting picture emerges (we are talking about the actions of the Kremlin). With the presidential elections, everything is clear: Clausewitz’s thesis about concentration was quite realistically implemented (perhaps the most striking example was 1996).

And the idea of ​​equal rights for women can be derived from two main sources that feed seemingly completely different ideological “reservoirs” - from Hobbes and Bakunin. Hobbes, discussing justice, noted that justice lies in fulfilling the requirements of the contract. Therefore, the specific content of this term is determined by the specific terms of the contract - and before the conclusion of the contract, no justice exists.