And the word answers the word. Vladimir Bibikhin - Olga Sedakova. Letters of 1992–2004

The correspondence of the poet Olga Sedakova and the philosopher Vladimir Bibikhin (1992-2004) was marked by special trust not only in the ability of the interlocutor to understand over the barriers, but to his very essence. This trust is inseparable from inspiration, which turns letters into an event of literature. A variety of topics are discussed - political, cultural, private - but the main content of the correspondence is life itself at freedom, not related to the consent with “low truths”. This freedom is the fruit of not only personal independence, but the appeal of one’s own word to such an immanent addressee, the presence of which is inseparable from the construction of the statement and makes internal socializing editing impossible. “How to say about what to call something that has never happened anywhere, to no one, that it could not be predicted or warned, in any way, that no one has ever seen, did not know that it began absolutely for the first time, was not painted anywhere? (from the letter of V. Bibikhin)
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