Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 10, 2009
VLADIMIR SHPAKOV. Lucky Felix. A novel.
Paraphrasing the famous beginning of the famous article by the famous Russian literary critic Vissarion Belinskij about the theater (“Do you love theater, do you love it with all your passion?..”), we could ask: do you love… money, do you love them as passionately as loves them the protagonist of the new novel by the well-known author from St-Petersburg V. Shpakov? And sinking together with Felix into the ocean of banknotes we would suddenly realize that there is no luck there.
FARID NAGIM. A Theory of Fallings. Notes by a Zone Manager.
Having graduated from one of the most prestigious institutes, then working on probation in the USA in the profession which seemed to be extremely perspective, then developing a unique scientific theory which promised the moon the protagonist of the “notes” if only in a nightmare could imagine that his lot will be to foist expensive clothes off on rich gays and girls. And this is not the only nightmare of his life.
ALEXEI TORK. Farkhad and Shirin. A short story.
As usually with this author this is an emotionally tense, highly dramatic and lightly ironical story of human feelings, love in the first place, trapped in the vicissitudes of merciless History.
“The Ardour of Solitude”. Collection of poems.
Poet and translator VADIM MURATKHANOV presents modern Uzbek poets: national poet of Uzbekistan RAUF PARFY, BELGY, FAKHRNER and AKHMAD TASHKHODJAYEV who makes his debut on “DN’s” pages.
CHINGIZ AITMATOV. ▒All That I See and Experience…”
The unpublished interview given to Ukrainian journalist Marija Kopilenko by the late classic of the Soviet literature Chingiz Aitmatov whose last novel “The Eternal Bride” had been published in our magazine in 2007, is dedicated to many problems of the post-Soviet countries’ relationships that are actual until now.