The semantic vertical of life. A book of interviews about Russian politics and culture of the 1990s and 2000s

In 2021, it would be 75 years old to the famous Russian sociologist and translator Boris Vladimirovich Dubin - a subtle expert on European culture, literature and poetry, public intellectual, the author of several hundred work, laureate of numerous prizes in Russia and abroad. In the circle of Russian humanities, he is known primarily as the sociologist of the Levada Center, who worked in the research paradigm of Yuri Levada. He is familiar to a wide circle of readers as a first -class translator of poetry and prose - Spanish, French, English, Hungarian, Polish. Many authors, which made up the color of European culture of the twentieth century, became available to the Russian reader thanks to Boris Dubin.

The book of his interview is a document of the era and a valuable resource, a source of understanding and interpretation of the Russian reality and public consciousness of the 1990-2000s, a panoramic view of the late Soviet and post-Soviet history. In an interview, the analytical language of the description of Boris Dubin was formed, accurate and acute diagnoses of time developed in his sociological studies, and translation intuitions were designed in this and philosophy of translation