Spring is desired Igor Veselov Publication date: March 3, 2004 On a day that happens once every four years, a prominent part of the Moscow online community went “offline” to celebrate the coming of spring. was held at the B2 club On February 29, the LiveJournal music festival Current Music .

Imagine a soap television series retold in Joyce's manner. This will be the novel by Manuel Puiga " Painted Sponges " (per. From the spap. A. Kazachkov). It is from this novel - and not with his own " Spider -Woman " - should you start acquaintance with the work of the Argentinean: Anti -Kortasar with label poetics. First of all, the literary abundance of Puiga is amazing. The amount of excess, completely meaningless information in his novel is amazingly great.

The new - fourth - Roman Yuri Andrukhovich is called "Twelve Hungry", Kiev " Criticism " published it in early autumn 2003, barely recalling the "Lviv Forum of the Book publishers." Then, in Lviv, almost a large part of the first circulation was sold in two days, that is, everything that they brought (and this, in general, is not surprising: Andrukhovich is a cult writer, the new novel was waiting for seven years, the author signed instances of it from it.).

Imagine a soap opera retold in Joyce's style. This will be Manuel Puig’s novel “ Painted Lips ” (translated from Spanish by A. Kazachkov). It is with this novel - and not with his own " Kiss of the Spider Woman " - that one should begin to get acquainted with the work of the Argentinean: anti-Cortazar with the poetics of labels. What is striking, first of all, is Puig's literary abundance. The amount of unnecessary, completely meaningless information in his novel is amazingly large.

Dusk postmodern Sergey V. Biryukov Publication date: March 2, 2004 The state of self-awareness and culture of Russian society today cannot be characterized as simply a crisis. We are talking about large-scale degradation and entropy, threatening to destroy the very foundations and meaning of the existence of Russian society as a single whole.

The new - fourth - novel by Yuri Andrukhovich is called "Twelve Hoops", the Kiev " Critique " published it in the early autumn of 2003, barely in time for the "Lviv Forum of Book Publishers". Then, there, in Lvov, in two days, almost the majority of the first edition was sold, that is, everything that was brought (and this, in general, is not surprising: Andrukhovich is a cult writer, they waited for a new novel for seven years, the author signed copies etc.).

Livergant Alexander Yakovlevich (1947) - literary critic, translator, candidate of art history, deputy editor-in-chief of the journal "Foreign Literature". Russian Magazine: 2 years ago I interviewed A.M. Zverev , then “ Foreign Literature ” had 10,000 subscribers - the most of all the “thick” magazines. Has the situation changed now?

The second philosophical letter In the first letter, we designated the four -stroke cycle of the historical development of Russia - the reform (revolution) - frost - a thaw - stagnation (insanity), listing the signs of each stage: the revolution ends with a military council (brutally suppressed), the frosts suggests the only “poet’s vacancy” and the full decline of public life is accompanied The collapse in all state structures due to corruption and the absence of other prospects, except for

On a day that happens every four years, a prominent part of the Moscow network community crawled out "in offline" - to celebrate the coming of spring. On February 29, the B2 club hosted the music festival of a living magazine - Current Music . Already the third in a row (not counting less large -scale side measures), the current Current Music was distinguished by a record number of visitors, an updated program, new stars and the best level of organization in the history of the festival.

You , the most ominous predictions, the darkest foresights, the most pessimistic forecasts have come true. The 76th Oscars were handed out at the Kodak Theater in Los Angeles.

Liverganger Alexander Yakovlevich (1947) - literary critic, translator, candidate of art history, deputy chief editor of the magazine "Foreign Literature". Russian magazine: 2 years ago I interviewed A.M. Zverev , then the “ foreign literature ” had 10,000 subscribers - most of all “thick” magazines. And now the situation has changed? Alexander Livergant: Now about 9000, but we are still in the first place, because the number of subscribers has decreased in other "thick" magazines.

Non-round date Leonid Ruzov Publication date: March 2, 2004 There, in Nagorno-Karabakh, in the predatory city of Shusha, I experienced these fears that are natural to the soul Osip Mandelstam During 1987, signatures were collected in Nagorno-Karabakh for a petition to the CPSU Central Committee on the transfer of the autonomous region to Armenia. The letter was signed by 75 thousand people.

Alas, the most sinister predictions, gloomy foresights, the most pessimistic forecasts came true. In the cinema "Kodak" in Los Angeles for the 76th time they distributed "Oscars". Quietly equalized with the Titanic and Ben-Gur, 11 figurines received " The Lord of the Rings: the return of the king " Peter Jackson, including in such important categories as "Best Film" and "Best Director".