The withering tongue of Manifestos Alexander Bakhmanov Publication date: May 8, 2003 Recently , an event occurred in Russia that, it would seem, should have attracted the attention of everyone interested in politics. The party, which only the lazy does not call the “party of power,” published its Manifesto “The Path of National Success.” But the appearance of the United Russia Manifesto did not become a sensation...

See the first episode here . Michael Epstein What is the place of literary criticism (not just online) in today's literary process? Literary criticism and theory are components of the literary process itself. Just as there is experimental and theoretical physics, so there are experimental literature (fiction) and theoretical literature (criticism, literary criticism). One is unthinkable without the other.

Velvet President About why Vaclav Havel is a modern-day George Orwell and other things Matt Welsh Publication date: May 8, 2003 Last fall, as the United States rattled its armor to go to war against Saddam Hussein, literary reviews and highbrow magazines grappled with an intriguing if improbable hypothesis: "What would George Orwell say about today if he with us now?" Christopher Hitchins, the fire-breathing British journalist, initiated this debate with the release of his book Why Orwell

In the meal in the fall, I was already speaking about the novel by Alexei Ivanov. Then it was a manuscript that struck me. I did not know anything definite about the author. I assumed that the novel “would enter the literature (already entered)“ Under the name of the “Book of Parma”, or “Books of Parma”, that it was “like a medieval epic”, almost troublemaken, and in this connection a kind of “author’s drama”.

As already many times, starting in the 70s. In the 20th century, experts argued, the fundamental problem of our time is to change the paradigm of cognition and extend this paradigm to all spatial and functional subsystems of society: linear thinking has been replaced by nonlinear natural scientific thinking and environmental consciousness 1 . Up until the 70s.

Threat to General Happiness Editor's Column Publication date: May 8, 2003 Carl Schmitt viewed the political struggle as a competition of projects for universal happiness. At least this is how he approached political struggle in a democratic society. Today, such an approach looks somewhat naive - not only in the light of the experience of the Third Reich (and not at all in the light of this experience), but in the light of our modern experience.

In Ce, who write about Alexei Ivanov’s novel “The Heart of Parma” primarily pay attention to his language: many ancient and firmly forgotten words literally dumbfounds the reader. Parma, Khumlt, Tamga, Sastum, Lamia - especially since these words are not ancient Slavic , as it was a historical novel from the era of Ivan the Terrible, and some wild ... a non -specialist will not even say what a language group it is.

And the toxes of the previous stage (ordinary mail) are not as optimistic as we would like. I will not publish statistics, but it is not very funny. Less than a hundred people. You are too lazy to go to the mail, right? I understand. But, by the way, what the reader writes: I read you about the opportunity to send them a parcel.

A cure for genocide Igor Jadan Publication date: May 8, 2003 The national hero and unifier of Italy, Giuseppe Garibaldi, who began his military career with the role of commander of a detachment of privateers in South America - that is, with what would now be called “international terrorism” - left a political testament published after his death, in which, in fact, predicted the future unification of Europe.