Banner. 2023. No. 3

This has already become a tradition - in every third issue of the "Banner" to post the speeches of the laureates of the past year. We call them small Nobel, and indeed the statements of Marina Vishnevetskaya, Denis Gutsko, Anna Knowdina, Pavel Palazhchenko, Tatyana Rizdvenko, Lev Simkinko, Svetlana Shnitman-Makmillin, Tatyana Chernysheva, tragic essay "Surestick recently adulthood Slavovsky. Reflections on creativity, but also a capacious assessment of our anxious, joyless time.
In the same dramatic tonality, the poetic collections of Anton Azarenkov, Mikhail Kukin, Konstantin Gadaev, Ali Karelina, and the stories of Igor Savelyev, David Markish, Nikolai Zheleznyak, Anastasia Kalian are also withstanding the same dramatic tonality. Stylistic manners, of course, are different, different and theme, but the fate of man is always in the center of writing. Whether it is an ascetic figure of the old Finn, before the death of his family farm near Vyborg, in the story of Katerina Kozhevina "Matti goes to die" or a whole gallery of juicyly written characters in the narrative of Mikhail Kuraev "well-tempered Irkutsk" about how in the old years The film-Opera "Prince Igor" was shot.
Times do not choose, of course, but each of the fate, his own image of behavior, either obeying time, or resisting it, everyone chooses on their own. About this a series of funny, then sad, but always instructive plots in the composition of Sergei Chuprinin "Thaw: Records and extracts". Sergei Borovikov in the sarcastic essay "Film Souls" talks about the Soviet classics Leonid Leonov and his jury, the unkind memory of Professor Alexander Ovcharenko. The chronicle of the relationship between the great playwright Nikolai Erdman with inhuman power is restored by Gennady Evgrafov in a kind of documentary play "only one comrade Stalin never sleeps in the Kremlin". Leonid Bakhnov in the memoir essay with an inaudible step of the leopard ... "recalls the journal Literary Review and Leonard Lavlinsky, its main editor. Important information is contained in the archives prepared by Valery Esipov by the publication "Varlam Shalamov and Alexander Gladkov: several new strokes".
The temporary range of the March number is huge: from the distant past, to which Ilya Vinitsky returns us in the philological detective or the baptismal story "Father Mandrych" (magical motive in the "Cossacks" L.N. Tolstoy), to the native The future, when, according to the hypothesis of Konstantin Frumkin, a new biomedical civilization will triumph in the world.
And many pages in the magazine book are given, of course, to talk about modern literature. Having gathered in the virtual "conference hall", our young authors Stepan Gavrilov, Elsa Gildin, Konstantin Komarov, Dmitry Lagutin, Vasily Necti, Arina Obukh, Boris Ponomarev talk about which barriers today to overcome novice writers. Ekaterina Ageeva, under the heading, will retrain "reflect on how bizarrely the topic of parenthood in the thick-journal stories of November 2022-2023 sometimes appears.
As for the traditional section "Observer", here Leonid Gomberg draws attention to the publication of the poems of Yuri Levita in the new library of the poet, Elena Solovyova represents the last book of Andrei Levkin "wiring. poetic anthology "leave. Stay. Olga Bugoslavskaya devotes his thoughts to live. The reviewers also marked a collection of poems by the oldest Russian poet Alexander Gorodnitsky "My mother is the name of Rachel" (Victoria Malkina), and the debut novel by Boris Leibov "Dorogobuzh" (Philippe Khorvat), and the new books of Alena Zhukova (Galina Kalinkina), Dmitry Garicheva (Yaroslav Sokolov) , compiled by Sergey Shikarev, a collection of stories "New Future" (Maria Bushueva), Irina Savkina’s study "Paths, Countries and dead ends of Russian female literature" (Anna Alikievich) Dmitry Bavilsky talks about the exhibition of the Russian avant -garde at the Tolerance Museum, and Alexander Markov reports the conference "Poetics of the Text", held on the basis of Tver State University.
And finally "cursive ”, where Olga Balla shares her impressions of the poetic books of Peter Razumov, Yuri Tsvetkov and Alena Baban