Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 8, 2005
Short stories — jolly and melancholy, serious and mischievous — are very much like his films. And his films we all adore for ages. “He Who is Toasted Drinks to the Dregs” is the second part of the “short-film” serial of personal reminiscences by a famous Russian-Georgian film director GEORGY DANELIA. The first part — “A Bilker” — see in “DN”, 2002, №№ 11—12 and 2003, № 1.
DMITRY NOVIKOV. Clo. A short story.
Somewhat macabre though not absolutely unreal plot of the story has to do with cloning of people for medical purposes. But eventually the story is about love and morals of course.
We are proud that an outstanding Russian poet INNA LISNYANSKAYA was awarded with the National prize for the wonderful “wreath of sonnets” “In a Hospital of the Facial Wound”, published in our magazine. We are glad to present in this issue her new poems.
One of the most talented modern Russian poets GENNADY RUSAKOV brought us his just written poem “I Was Growing Up from the Anguish”. It’s his thoughts on life, on Russians’ ways and his own no easy lot on this unmerciful but lovely earth.
BОRIS VASSILEVSKY. The Dawn of the Outer Space Era. The final part of a prolonged essay in which the author’s thoughts on today’s life are naturally fused together with his reminiscences on Siberia of the 1960-s (see “DN”, 2003, № 8). Little-known pages of the life and works of a famous Russian thinker and writer Alexander Radistchev are revealed here.