Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 8, 2006
MUSA AKHMADOV. For the Candle Not to Be Blown Out with the Wind.
There is no shooting or any other military activities in this short story by the Chechen writer Musa Akhmаdov, but nevertheless the story breathes the war…
YOURY PETKEVICH. A Draw.
Strange relations bind together the characters of the new long short story by our regular author. Strange games — if these are really games — they play. Who is the player and who is played on? How to determine the winner? The author invites the readers to decide these questions by themselves.
The poetical section of this issue presents some samples of the very interesting modern poetry of the North Caucasus introducing an Osset AKHSAR KODZATIS, Balkars AKHMAT SOZAEV and ARSEN DODUEV, a Karachay ALBERT UZDENOV, Ingooshes RAMAZAN TZUROV and MAGOMED-SAID PLIEV in translations performed by M. Sinelnikov, G. Onanyan, G. Yaropolsky and L. Shereshevsky.
“A View of Literature at the Mountains Background”. Report on the round-table conference conducted in Geleznovodsk where by “DN’s” invitation came writers from different regions of the North Caucasus to discuss the problems of the modern literature: author and society; literature and authorities; translations from the local languages, decay of book publishing and many other.
VALERIJ TISHKOV. On the Russian People.
Chapters from the book by a well-known Russian scholar who analyses the main problems of today’s Russian life from the point of view of social-cultural anthropology: demography, ethno-cultural mosaic, migration, the image of the country, national identity.
ZAUR TUTOV. Salvation Is in the Enlightenment of the Mind.
Problems and ways of revival and further development of national cultures in the North Caucasian regions; interrelations between these regions and Federal administration; place of Russian culture in the spiritual world of Caucasians… These and other questions are discussed by the Ministry of Culture of Kabardino-Balkaria ZAUR TUTOV in his interview to his compatriot-journalist Larisa Aloeva.
VLADIMIR OGNEV in his essay ““The Bow-Horned Bulls” of Memory” tells the story of his acquaintance with the famous Balkar poet KAISIN KULIEV and experience of translation of the latter’s poems.