Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 3, 2007
RADA POLISCHUK. Life Without End and Beginning.
R.Polischuk is apt to the genre of family saga. Her protagonists, even single, usually tow a cart-load of complicated relationships with their kin, friends, friends of friends to say nothing of their loving collisions. They long to get rid of the family and they long to cling close, to rely on it.
MIKHAIL RUMER-ZARAEV. Russia which We’ve Found.
Going over the situation of today’s Russian country modeled in three peasant generations the author comes to a conclusion that “there is no special way for the country’s revival. Sooner or later it will follow the way other developed states do — the way of combining large corporations and small individual farms.
ALEXANDER MELIKHOV. Tolerance: a Need or a Virtue?
Contemplations of a well-known Russian writer on the nature of imperial consciousness.
“The World In Lines of Slanting Rains”
We know her from the shrill and furious poems of her husband GENNADIJ RUSAKOV. 16 years after her death he has been conducting his “Conversations With God” demanding the answer: what did He condemned her to the tortures for? Why did He took her away so early? But she was not only the Love of his life. She was an inspired poet. Here we publish LUDMILA KOPILOVA’s poems of different years.
OLGA LEBEDUSHKINA. The Time of Fairy Tales.
No need to guess whether this time really has come. It’s enough to look at the shelves of modern literature in any large bookshop to prove the guess correct: “True Tales”, “Wild Bestial Tales”, “Moscow Tales”, “Tipsy Tales”, “Russian Foreign Tales”… On new tales and tales-tellers contemplates the author.