Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 6, 2009
TAMAZ CHILADZE. Breigel’s Moon.
Are there beings from other planets available in Georgia? It turns out that yes, there are.
Details — in the new novel by well-known Georgian writer Tamaz Chiladze.
HAMID ISMAILOV. Mbobo.
Mbobo (or Kirill) is a black-skinned son of the Moscow Olympiad. He might be about thirty years old today, but the author of the novel, poet and prosaist Hamid Ismailov, pictures his life otherwise.
MIKHAIL KHAZIN. The Biggest Danger Is Barbarisation of the Country.
Interview with the well-known Russian economist who as a means of struggling against the simplifying and fragmentation of the civilization suggests forming up a new, post-crisis society basing on some global Supranational Projects (like Christian, Islam or Communist ideas used to be in the past). What will be the new global projects the author doesn’t even try to think of for the time being.
BORIS VASILIVSKIJ. A Cat Sleeping on Hemingway.
“These are some notes not as much on Hemingway as on some things which are connected with Hemingway, called up by him…”, — the author explains. The cult writer of the generation of the late 50-s — the beginning of 60-s is for him a prism through which he is looking back in the past trying to tell of “the time and myself”.