In this series we have already talked with many unusual characters. For example, we had the opportunity to talk with an intellectual, with a narrator, with an anonymous person, and even with the rebellious spirit of a suicide. But it seems that it is the St. Petersburg poet, writer and musician Sap-Sa-De who can be called in our ranks - a sage - with all the semantic overtones of this traditionally high title. For who is a wise man? - let's think innocently. One who speaks and acts wisely.

Leader of the Free World Gary Rivlin Gary Rivlin Date of publication: October 24, 2003 Gary Rivlin _ Translation by Linor Goralik and Tatyana Danilova Linus Torvalds is trying to convince me that he is too boring to write an article about. The creator of the Linux operating system portrays himself as a mild-mannered man living a monotonous life - just another guy who was lucky enough to own a luxurious mansion in the hills near San Jose, courtesy of the madness of the late 90s.

The first congress was lumpy? Sergey Volkov Date of publication: October 24, 2003 I remember a picture from a school history textbook: Ilyich sits, hunched over, under the podium at some congress and concentrates on writing a speech right “on his knee.” Because you need to perform urgently and prepare normally, like people, there is no time. I understand this person very much, because I myself am writing now almost “on my knees”.

And intuition suggests that only another translator has the right to criticize a translator. Knowledge of the original text and the presumption of its adequate understanding forces the competitor to compare options. There would be a translation, but there would be mistakes. However, sometimes knowledge of the original is not necessary to recognize the general poor quality of the translated edition.

Analytical journalism in market categories Oleg Basov Date of publication: October 24, 2003 The organizers of one of the discussion platforms at the Russian Forum propose to talk about “analytical journalism” as “the lost link in the democratic process.” I must admit that this very “lost link” gave me the feeling that there is some kind of standard democratic process, fully equipped with spare parts and stored in the city of Sevres along with a standard meter and a standard kilogram.

Usually in a review it is customary to ask the question why and why a translation of this book is being published right now? In the Russian situation, there can be only one answer to such suspicious questions: because it did not come out before. There is no malicious intent, it’s just that only with the release of this translation the reader had the opportunity to discover another French author, whose name does not sound at all French, Cornelius Castoriadis .

Hunger 87 Practical gastroenterology reading Alexander Ageev Date of publication: October 23, 2003 The other day I suddenly discovered that all over the apartment: on the table, on the sofa, under the sofa, in various other decent and indecent places, I had books scattered and scattered around the middle - that is, started and unread.

The fact that the Russian media passed over the death of Edward Said in silence is discouraging. E. Said was a star of the first magnitude on the American intellectual scene, no less bright than, say, Richard Rorty or Michael Walzer. Getting him as a guest lecturer for European audiences, be it in London, Rome or Vienna, was as difficult (and as expensive) as Derrida or Habermas. Dozens of authoritative publications responded to his death (September 21 of this year).

Katateraz B.V. Tomashevsky, "Theory of literature. Poetics.", M.: Aspect Press, 1996, p. 56: “Katat cutrases mean not only“ distribution ”, but also“ abuse. ”Sometimes this term is used in the meaning of an exaggerated, ugly form of the path, for example, logically contradictory or bulky metaphor. (...) For example, Dostoevsky, characterizing the pathetic style of a tipsy person, ascribes him words "This sees only one finger of the Almighty." 2.

On Thursday, October 23, on the anniversary of the terrorist attack on Dubrovka, the NTV channel showed the fruit of its production efforts - the film “The Third Option” by Konstantin Khudyakov. This is the first attempt to talk about “Nord-Ost” in the language of cinema.