Banner. 2021. No. 11

The November issue of the magazine consists of the works, which take place in the present, and at the same time filled with an atmosphere of the unlocked. This issue publishes chapters from Roman Ruslan Kozlov "Stabat Mater" - books about children and parents, angels and clinics, about hospice, pain, physical and spiritual, fear of death and overcoming this fear. The chapters from modernity and the "ancient Roman" everyday life are interspersed, giving the narrative a special volume. The generation of the 80s, their lost, but not forgotten past, doomed to failure, if not disastrous, attempts to escape from reality are dedicated to the story of Evgeny Chizhov "Autostop-1984" (with a sacred number in the title, who did not have time, read the essay also Chizhova "Literature and Murder" in the previous issue) The prose of the room is complemented by the stylistically bright intonidized stories of Sasha Nikolayenko "died-Bomerley" and the cycle of Igor Puzyrev "only in flight". The collections of new poems are represented by Vladimir Kozlov ("where are mine, heaven, smells?"), Ivan Starikov ("sisters Alien and clarity"), Alexander Belyakov ("Alexander almost does not drink") and Julia Arkhangelskaya ("Scheglovskaya Zhovka") The literary task of the number - to show the history of the literature of the Soviet period in its unknown - continue the essay of Sergei Nazin about the editor of the “banner” of the first years Mikhail Landa with an expressive subtitle "from the political management to literature", as well as the memoir Lyudmila Sergeyeva (the “banner” repeatedly printed her memories) "Password: Rainer Maria Rilke" and archival publication of an article by a philologist-classic, an emigrant of the third wave, a teacher of the University of Geneva, and before that of the Moscow and Kazakhstan inhabitant (due to the link of the family of the executed pepper Marquis) Shimon Markish "Yuri Dombrovsky" (prepared by Zhuzha Hetenia) , accompanied by an article by the publisher about Marquis - "Keeper of Unnecessary things". The heading "The plot of fate": the writer-historian Yakov Gordin in the Essay-Maintenance "Until the Complete Death-seriously brings the lives and verses of their most peculiar poets of our time, the avant-garde Viktor Sosnora.
Mark Altshuller is focused on the "close reading" (in the same number) of the possible presence of “Marina Tsvetaeva "in front of the Mirror" of Veniamina Kaverina, Pavel Glushakov publishes notes on the inexhaustible topic "Literary classics: dialogues and consonance", Alexander Laskin reflects on Blockade and freedom under the heading "Book as a reason". Olga Balla returns and inventory new anniversary publications in the periodicals of this year. In the “observer”, Irina Vasilkov’s review was placed on the new novel by Athanasius Mammadova, Alexei Masalov writes about the book of poems by Ilya Kukulin, Evgenia Shcheglova - about the collection of prose by Natalia Sokolovskaya, Boris Kutenkov about the “Book of Reflections” Irina Masha, Stanislav secrets introduces new publications about Sovetsky The poster, Pavel Rudnev shares the "theatrical impressions" about the performance of Kirill Serebrennikov "Decameron". We have everything so far