Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 6, 2011
ELENA DOLGOPYAT. Short stories.
Elena Dolgopyat is an expert at telling queer stories and twirling an intrigue so intricately that the reader remains in tension till the very last page. It must be added to this that her riddles not only organize the plot but nearly become the main characters of her stories. How does she manage to do it? This is one more riddle.
RADA POLISCHUK. Lapserdak Sewed of Scraps.
Last year we published some stories from the book of this title which R. Polischuk is been writing for a time. Here are some more. “Lapserdak (long-lap frock-coat of Polish and Galician Jews) sewed of scraps” is of course a metaphor not without paradox. But isn’t life itself a paradox in some way? Both Big History, and great number of small life-stories which this book is sewed of are also paradoxes of some kind. Sad, funny, human…
ALEXEY IVANTER. Poems.
This name is well-known to the readers of the site stihi.ru as well as to the readers of “Drouzhba Narodov” and “Siberian Lights” magazines. Evgeniy Evtushenko called him “…a big poet with his own breaking breath, with his own linguistic richness and with all-Russian responsiveness to others’ anguish”.
ARSEN MARTIROSYAN. June, 22, 1941.
In his article a historian A. Martirosyan tries to analyze and states his personal point of view on the causes of the tragic defeat of the Soviet troops in the first days of the Great Patriotic War.
ANATOLIJ TZIRULNIKOV. Taman before the Great Explosion.
“Why is it so? If only we have some heavenly corner we are bound to destroy it. Aral, Baykal… Now Taman. Are we short of territory? Or destroying of the earthly paradise is a model situation, experiment, trying of the safety factor?” To investigate these questions as applied to Taman’s situation tries our regular author, well-known scholar and far from indifferent traveller Anatolij Tzirulnikov.