Magazine Znamya No. 5. 2023
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The May issue of the magazine is poetically diverse - however, by other indicators of literary life in dark times, the muses are by no means silent and do not cease to disturb the consciousness of the modern reader. New collections of poems have been released by Alexey Kubrik - 'they say people are not to blame', Andrey Polyakov - 'Radio station 'The Last Den'', Vladimir Recepter - 'What a winterly winter...', Yulia Arkhangelskaya - 'Pythagoras has returned to earth'. In the 'Archive' section, a friendly message from Bulat Okudzhava to Oleg Chukhontsev, a fellow poet and neighbor across the fence (published by Olga Okudzhava), marked with the year 1986, a year of great hopes and public euphoria, is fixed on the magazine page.
In prose - always unexpected, but always a sophisticated stylist, Alexander Davydov presented his new narrative 'Janus-2, or Tumor humanoid' with the author's subtitle 'Seventeen fantasies'. Continuing the line of prose with a fantastic assumption, Davydov expands the space of exquisite word, which, according to the author's definition, 'is never aimless' and remains in time. The stories of the writer from Perm, who has registered in central publications, Pavel Selukov, unlike Davydov's prose, are sharply and sometimes very harshly tied to the plots and realities of marginal life and death, but they are also lexically - but very much in their own way - exquisite, combining high and coarse. Alexey Ilyushkin (story 'Apart') intersperses prose with poetic lines of his hero, a young man, but already 'left' by a young wife who has passed away. Anna Luzhbina ('The secret about the afterlife') and Anastasia Karpova ('At the headboard') appear in 'Znamya' for the first time, - as does Dmitry Kozhushko (his story 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is recommended in the 'Carte blanche' section by Leonid Yuzefovich).
The theme of death and its overcoming, one of the main themes of the issue, is continued by Inna Voloshina (section 'Testimony', introduction by Irina Rodnyanskaya) - the text is called, 'Lessons of dying'. The author herself provides active support and assistance to a person in his illness and departure - and writes about her (accompanying) coming to faith.
In the same issue, the reader awaits the conclusion of the publication of the diaries of Teymuraz Stepanov-Mamaladze (1989-1991). A conversation with the head of the European University Center in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Melnichenko, the creator of the famous 'Prozhito' website, where hundreds of thousands of pages of diary entries from the mid-18th century to our days are digitized, posted, and available to researchers and just readers, was conducted by Stanislav Sekretov. 'Close reading' of Fazil Iskander's story 'Martyrs of the stage' in a new article was carried out by Oleg Lekmanov. The 'Book as a reason' section is given to Hispanist and translator Svetlana Piskunova for a detailed acquaintance with the new book by the director of the Cervantes Institute in Moscow, Tatyana Pigareva 'Spain from A to Z', - we intend to further expand the geography of our literary interests, possibly not only with articles but also with translations. Anna Krechetova 're-reads' memories of the Soviet 20th century published in periodicals at the beginning of 2023. In 'Observer', reviews of new books by Roman Senchin (Tatyana Veretenova), Shamshad Abdullaev (Alexander Markov), Ksenia Buksha (Yaroslav Sokolov), Vladimir Aleinikov (Alexander Chantsev), Anna Starobinets (Alexander Moskvin), Igor Puzirev (Evgeny Scheglov), Denis Sorokotyagin (Galina Kalinkina), Avril Pyman (Nikolay Podosokorsky), Catherine Zubovich (Philip Horvat) are placed. Dmitry Bavilsky talks about the exhibition of icon painting of the 13th-20th centuries, held in the Tretyakov Gallery, about the new literary criticism magazine 'Palimpsest' - Olga Dovgiy. In 'Rapid writing', Olga Balla talks about two literary-critical collections - 'School of Criticism' and 'Furious Vissarion' (issue 3).
In prose - always unexpected, but always a sophisticated stylist, Alexander Davydov presented his new narrative 'Janus-2, or Tumor humanoid' with the author's subtitle 'Seventeen fantasies'. Continuing the line of prose with a fantastic assumption, Davydov expands the space of exquisite word, which, according to the author's definition, 'is never aimless' and remains in time. The stories of the writer from Perm, who has registered in central publications, Pavel Selukov, unlike Davydov's prose, are sharply and sometimes very harshly tied to the plots and realities of marginal life and death, but they are also lexically - but very much in their own way - exquisite, combining high and coarse. Alexey Ilyushkin (story 'Apart') intersperses prose with poetic lines of his hero, a young man, but already 'left' by a young wife who has passed away. Anna Luzhbina ('The secret about the afterlife') and Anastasia Karpova ('At the headboard') appear in 'Znamya' for the first time, - as does Dmitry Kozhushko (his story 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' is recommended in the 'Carte blanche' section by Leonid Yuzefovich).
The theme of death and its overcoming, one of the main themes of the issue, is continued by Inna Voloshina (section 'Testimony', introduction by Irina Rodnyanskaya) - the text is called, 'Lessons of dying'. The author herself provides active support and assistance to a person in his illness and departure - and writes about her (accompanying) coming to faith.
In the same issue, the reader awaits the conclusion of the publication of the diaries of Teymuraz Stepanov-Mamaladze (1989-1991). A conversation with the head of the European University Center in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Melnichenko, the creator of the famous 'Prozhito' website, where hundreds of thousands of pages of diary entries from the mid-18th century to our days are digitized, posted, and available to researchers and just readers, was conducted by Stanislav Sekretov. 'Close reading' of Fazil Iskander's story 'Martyrs of the stage' in a new article was carried out by Oleg Lekmanov. The 'Book as a reason' section is given to Hispanist and translator Svetlana Piskunova for a detailed acquaintance with the new book by the director of the Cervantes Institute in Moscow, Tatyana Pigareva 'Spain from A to Z', - we intend to further expand the geography of our literary interests, possibly not only with articles but also with translations. Anna Krechetova 're-reads' memories of the Soviet 20th century published in periodicals at the beginning of 2023. In 'Observer', reviews of new books by Roman Senchin (Tatyana Veretenova), Shamshad Abdullaev (Alexander Markov), Ksenia Buksha (Yaroslav Sokolov), Vladimir Aleinikov (Alexander Chantsev), Anna Starobinets (Alexander Moskvin), Igor Puzirev (Evgeny Scheglov), Denis Sorokotyagin (Galina Kalinkina), Avril Pyman (Nikolay Podosokorsky), Catherine Zubovich (Philip Horvat) are placed. Dmitry Bavilsky talks about the exhibition of icon painting of the 13th-20th centuries, held in the Tretyakov Gallery, about the new literary criticism magazine 'Palimpsest' - Olga Dovgiy. In 'Rapid writing', Olga Balla talks about two literary-critical collections - 'School of Criticism' and 'Furious Vissarion' (issue 3).
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