Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 5, 2009
DENIS BUGULOV. The Blue. A long short story.
It’s a story of love and hatred, of the ambivalence of human relationships. “Standing between two mirrors you see endless reiteration of your own reducing reflection which step by step is receding deep into the glass… My “I” must have been existing like the person which surely used to exist and then reflected in the cascade of descending duplicates…”
VALERIJ AIRAPETJAN. A long short story.
It’s fasionable today to write of one’s kins. It is an all over the world popular theme of “the roots” on the one hand and the well-known among the authors axiom on the other: have a hard time with the search of a protagonist? Try and find him beside yourself. Many young writers begin with this. The truth is that many end with this too. In this sense a writer may be compared with a car which needs both short and distant lights. All seems to be well with this with Valerij Airapetjan. That’s why it is so interesting, enjoying and bitterful to peer into the partly vanished world which is inhabited by his characters.
THE GRAPE WORD.
This box of poems presents the modern Georgian poetry. Lyrical verses by SHALVA BACURADZE, ANDRO BUATCHIDZE, NICKY DZORDZANELY, MAYA SARISHVILY, GEORGIJ LOBZANIDZE are translated by Maxim Amelin, Irina Ermakova, Anna Zolotareva and Victor Kulle.
ALEXEJ MALASHENKO. Be Acquainted: Islam.
Not everybody if he is not a Moslem can get through moreover comprehend the Koran. Not everybody can distinguish stale, sometimes awfully distorted ideas of Islam from its true essence. Alexej Malashenko, connoisseur of Islam, Doctor of History and brilliant popularizer of scientific knowledge, did a wonderful thing: he intelligibly and witfully explained for those knowing barely nothing of the subject what Islam really is.
MUSA AKHMADOV. Legends Full of Generosity.
There are few Russian peoples of whom the home press wrote in the last decades as much as of Chechens. Nevertheless the inner life of this people, its ideals and values are still practically unknown for the wide audience. The Chechen writer Musa Akhmadov is filling up this gap in our knowledge of the Chechen ethics and culture.