On the ruins of the new

The book of Cyril Kobrin "on the ruins of the new" unites the essays studying the nature of modernity. Observing the destruction of recently erected constructs, Kobrin reflects on the horror and charms of a melancholy, invariably accompanying the care of the next era. Analyzing today"s London, Moscow, Sichuan and other local contexts of certain canonical plots, reactivates the insights, errors and disputes of long -gone times. The phenomenon of fame, and also the mechanisms of memory and oblivion are the subject of the separate interest of Kobrin: what texts perpetuate certain social achievements or failures, why one plot becomes the prey of mass culture, and from fans of the other, after some century, one can be made up of a “platoon Or, in the best case, half a rib. "
Kirill Kobrin - writer, historian, journalist. In the 1990s, together with Alexei Purin, he edited the literary almanac "urbi". In 2000-2006 editor of the journal "New Literary Review" (section "Practice"), since 2006, editor of the magazine "Unaccounted Reserve". Together with Andrei Levkin, the creator and co-editor of the literary and artistic site Post (non) fiction. Member of the jury of the Nose Prize (2009-2012) Author and co -author of several books. The author of Sherlock Holmes and the birth of modernity: money, girls, the dandy of the Victorian era "(Publishing House of Ivan Lumbach, 2015)