From November 30 to December 4, the Central House of Artists will host the 18th International Fair of Intellectual Literature non/fiction - in five days here you can provide yourself with reading for the entire next year. Igor Gulin and selected 55 books for adults and children that are worth paying special attention to
Choice of Igor Gulin
Poems from Northern Flowers, 1832 Alexander Pushkin
It’s strange to start a list of new releases with Pushkin, and yet it’s truly a big event. Almost 10 years ago, the New Publishing House published the first two volumes of the Pushkin collection - “Poems and Stories” and “Boris Godunov”. We've been waiting for the third one for a long time. The difference between this collection and the usual ones is that it is based on lifetime publications - exactly the Pushkin that his contemporaries read. The new volume contains one of the rarest Pushkin collections, including, among other things, "Mozart and Salieri", "Anchar" and "Demons". The majority of the publication is occupied by a huge commentary by philologists Alexander Dolinin, Oleg Proskurin and Alina Bodrova.
New publishing house
Vasily Kamensky. Poet. Aviator. Circus performer. Futurist genius
Vasily Kamensky cannot be called a forgotten author, however, of all the main figures of Russian futurism, he is, as it were, the least canonized, the least mastered. His legacy has the most blank spots. Now this situation is rapidly improving. Recently a collection of his unknown poems from the 20s was published in "Gilea", now this large volume. As always in the “avant-garde” series of the European University, there are not only texts - poems, lectures, memoirs - but also facsimile reproductions of the typographic experiments of the futurist himself, a detailed bibliography, as well as a fairly large selection of research articles touching, in particular, on the relations of literary hypostasis Kamensky with his aviation hobbies.
European University Press
Transfurists. Selected texts
This book represents one of the most interesting pages the history of the late Russian avant-garde, which until now remained little known, - the poets of the samizdat magazine "Transponance", published in the 70s and 80s by poets Ry Nikonova and Sergei Sigei in the city of Yeisk. Nikonova and Sigei are almost the only authors for whom the direct development of the poetics of Russian futurism, Kruchenykh and Khlebnikov did not seem role-playing game, not by imitation, but by still a living search for the language of the future. The two St. Petersburg authors most closely associated with Transponance, the brothers B. Constrictor and A. Nik, published here, are rather successors of the Oberiuts, authors of desperate metaphysical jokes.
Three stories about Vasya Kurolesov Yuri Koval
Parodying the genre of the collective farm detective, “The Adventures of Vasya Kurolesov” was Yuri Koval’s first successful work. Two sequels are less popular - “Five Kidnapped Monks” and “Citizen Loshakov’s Mistake,” written during perestroika. In this book, for the first time since then, they are published together and, more importantly, provided with a detailed historical and literary commentary by philologists Oleg Lekmanov, Roman Leibov and Ilya Bernstein. When serious scholars undertake to comment on children's books, it is always curious, and here is also an ideal object: the sentimental and ironic prose of Yuri Koval was one of the most vibrant phenomena in all late Soviet censored literature, not only in its teenage part.
Desert Connoisseur Vasily Kondratyev
The prose writer, poet, translator Vasily Kondratyev, who died in 1999, was one of the main figures of the last samizdat generation of St. Petersburg literature. Due to various extra-literary reasons, he remained an almost unpublished author. All interested new literature know this name, but few have seen the texts. This book is the first opportunity to get to know his poetry in any representative volume. The first feeling when meeting them is recognition: Kondratiev’s poems turn out to be the lost link between high Leningrad modernism and the poetry of recent decades.
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Encyclopedia of Illusions Nikolay Baytov
Nikolai Baytov has a special position in modern Russian literature. One of the most radical innovators, whose early experiments were in many ways close to Moscow conceptualism, but then moved much further. On the other hand, he is the author of exquisite, quiet lyrics, one of the few poets who still sincerely believe in rhyme and rhythm, giving these concepts the power of a philosophical instrument. Ten years ago, Baytov was a writer for a narrow circle, but since then the situation has changed. This book is an important stage in mastering the array of his texts. Here is a collection of Byte's major poetic form - from the mid-80s to the very recent years. However, these texts are very different from the traditional romantic poem. Each of them tests the very possibility of poetic speech and does so with the beauty of both a mathematical problem and a love song.
New Literary Review
The Little Life of Hanya Yanagihara
The most anticipated translation novelty of the fair. Hawaiian-American writer Hanya Yanagihara's second book begins as a simple story of four friends - a lawyer, an actor, an architect and an artist. But the past of one of them is special. The story of a successful young American turns into a monstrous tale of endless humiliation and violence. Yanagahira's eight-hundred-page volume clearly aspires to be the "Great American Novel." The book has about as many ardent adherents as there are fierce haters. Some admire Yanagahira for his epic scope and courage in talking about things that most people prefer to avoid, while others condemn him for his clumsiness, fanaticism and shameless melodrama. At the same time, A Little Life is a rare case of a serious novel that immediately gave birth to an entire fan culture.
independence Day Richard Ford
Another great American novel, but time-tested. In 1995, Independence Day became the first book to win both the Pulitzer Prize and the Faulkner Prize. Formally, this is a continuation of the novel “The Sports Journalist” written by Ford 10 years earlier, but you can read it on your own. One weekend in the life of Frank Boscombe (a former journalist and now a real estate agent), which did not foretell anything special and turned into a huge existential test. The cynical and sentimental Ford is usually called the heir of Updike, and “Independence Day” is considered by many to be one of the main American books of the 90s.
Phantom Press
The Rings of Saturn Winfried Georg Sebald
This novel was also written in 1995, but it represents literature of a completely different kind. The German writer Sebald, who lived only 57 years, created a unique genre - half-novel, half-essay, half-autobiography, half-fantasy, art historical commentary and at the same time lamenting historical catastrophes. The New Publishing House has already published a collection of Sebald's articles, Air War and Literature, and has also republished his novel Austerlitz. The Rings of Saturn was promised at the same time, but publication took a year. The subtitle of the novel is “an English pilgrimage,” and it is truly a story of thoughtful walks through the British countryside, exploring its sights and nature. There seems to be no talk here of the horrors of the destruction of civilization, with which Sebald is usually associated, but in fact the anxiety is hidden much deeper.
New publishing house
Willard and his bowling trophies Richard Brautigan
In Russia, Richard Brautigan, the most surreal of the beatniks, was translated quite a lot, but for some reason they only got around to this 1975 novel now. The action takes place in San Francisco in the early 70s, although there is essentially no action - rather a series of hallucinogenic scenes. A noir detective story about two bowling champion brothers' search for their missing trophies, an absurdist parody of sadomasochistic romance coming into fashion, a biography of a papier-mâché toucan (this is, in fact, the titular Willard). And as always with Brautigan, there is a comic sadness that melts into the air.
Phantom Press - Dodo
Shakespeare's Girls and Women Heinrich Heine
Atta Troll Heinrich Heine
Tragic story Hamlet, Prince of Denmark William Shakespeare
The publishing house "Text" has prepared a kind of triad this year. The first book is a bilingual edition of Heine's poem "Atta Troll" from 1841. In the late text of the German classic, the dance of the circus bear Atta Troll sets the rhythm in which, as always with Heine, philosophy, politics, lyricism and irony are mixed. The translation of the poem became one of latest works Nikolai Gumilev and, oddly enough, has not been republished since 1931. In terms of language, this is very Gumilevian Heine. The second book is a literary essay by Heine, dedicated to female images Shakespeare is the only reason, according to the romantic, to love the English people. The third is a new translation of the main tragedy of Shakespeare himself, made by Andrei Korchevsky. This is not quite the Hamlet we are used to. Namely, the so-called “First Quattro” is an earlier, shorter and more dynamic version.
Alexander I, Maria Pavlovna, Elizaveta Alekseevna. Correspondence from three corners
An extremely fascinating book, even if you are not interested in the history of the Russian monarchy. In 1804, Maria Pavlovna, younger sister Emperor Alexander I, marries the Crown Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and settles in Weimar. There she communicates with Goethe and Schiller, studies science, gives birth to children, runs all over Germany from Napoleon. And yet, he misses his brother. Actually, from 1804 until Alexander’s death, their correspondence lasted, first published in this book. It is, of course, conducted in French, so it is a translation. At the same time, Maria Pavlovna corresponds with her daughter-in-law, Empress Elizaveta Alekseevna, and against the background of this ceremonial correspondence, her correspondence with her brother looks especially strange. This is a real epistolary novel, witty, full of bitterness and passion, clearly not entirely brotherly in nature.
New Literary Review
October. The story of one revolution
Probably the best of the publications prepared so far for the centenary October revolution, is remarkable, first of all, for its complete rejection of any speculation, calls for rethinking, and the like. A chronicle of the last months of 1917, consisting of evidence - diaries, interviews, memoirs. Among the heroes are Bolshevik leaders, Socialist Revolutionaries, commissars and warrant officers, defenders of the Provisional Government, ordinary workers and writers, foreign journalists and diplomats. Some texts are well known, others are collected from almost forgotten sources, but the main thing is the work of editing itself. Turning to this way of writing history, which in the Russian context was consolidated precisely by post-revolutionary culture, seems especially appropriate.
20th century: letters from war
An impressive eight-hundred-page volume, the most interesting recent history book. This is a collection of letters. Little or nothing is known about their authors. But they all have one thing in common: they write from the front. Chronology - from the Anglo-Boer War, which opened the 20th century, in which Russian volunteers took part, to the Chechen campaigns that closed it, the last from which letters were still written. These texts are interesting not because of information about military conflicts and not as parts of unknown destinies. The compilers of the collection - anthropologists Sergei Ushakin and Alexey Golubev - are interested in something else: what exactly is military writing, what kind of genre is it, who does the subject who writes it become, what does he feel obliged to talk about and what to keep silent about? The collection is not organized chronologically, but thematically - divided into sections: everyday life, food, money, love, etc. Each has accompanying articles written by the best authors dealing with Russian history.
One way way Diary of D.D. Bergman, 1941-1942 The sign will not be erased The fate of ostarbeiters in letters, memoirs and oral stories
Two books prepared this year by the Memorial Society form a pair of sorts, both talking about forced displacement, although in opposite directions. The first is the diary of mathematics teacher Dmitry Bergman from 1941-1942. Bergman was one of hundreds of Volga Germans taken at the beginning of the war to the Far East, where he soon died of starvation. His entries are worth reading not for the sake of analytics. They are evidence of the tragic confusion of an absolutely Soviet person before the actions of his own government. The second book is dedicated to the fate of ostarbeiters - Soviet citizens deported by German troops for forced labor in Germany. This practice was carefully erased from memory by Soviet war historians as shameful and has not yet fully entered into public consciousness. The book is based on a large-scale collage of interviews and diaries of former “remnants”, which makes it possible to at least to some extent reconstruct this painful blank spot of history.
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Black Russian: The Story of One Destiny Vladimir Alexandrov
The hero of the book by American Slavist Vladimir Alexandrov is Frederick Bruce Thomas. The son of recently freed black slaves from Mississippi embarks on an adventurous journey to Chicago, New York, London, Paris and finally Moscow. It is Russia that unexpectedly turns out to be a country of opportunity completely free of racism for the enterprising African-American. Here he first becomes a waiter at Yar, and then becomes a prominent figure in theatrical life, a restaurateur, an entrepreneur, and a millionaire. Then a revolution happens, and Thomas flees again - this time to Odessa, and from there to Istanbul, where he begins his career anew and receives the nickname Sultan of Jazz. A true picaresque novel, yet entirely documentary.
New Literary Review
Utopia of rules. About technology, stupidity and the secret charm of bureaucracy David Graeber
American anthropologist David Graeber is known as the author of the impressive volume Debt, his own version of the history of the world economy (it is being republished along with a new book). “Utopia of Rules” is a smaller-scale work, but no less interesting. The power of bureaucracy over human life became one of the main subjects of political, economic and artistic thought by the middle of the last century, reflections on this reached its peak in the 70s, and then there was a sharp decline. It seems boring to talk about this now. Meanwhile, as Graeber notes, we fill out more paperwork and forms—real and virtual, in private and public institutions—than humans ever did. Graeber is trying to understand what exactly the endless rules of bureaucracy regulate, whether they are established by the state or the market, and what alternatives there are. His writing is not populist, it is always an original, exciting thought, but it is not scientific gibberish, everything is extremely clear. Not many authors are able to stay on this edge.
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Offshore John Urry
Thanks to the news of recent years, the concept of “offshore” has moved from somewhere on the periphery of consciousness to the very center of our world. Therefore, this book comes out very opportunely, although British sociologist John Urry published it in 2014 - even before the recent scandals. Her idea: offshore companies are increasingly becoming the main principle of the world order and are taking over all areas. Urry writes not only about the practice of tax evasion. Offshores turn out to be a kind of political metaphor in his book - an explanation of the structure of the entire modern economy as a system of opacity, the removal of everything inconvenient - from wars to sex tourism - beyond the boundaries of view and law. However, in his book there is not only apocalyptic analysis, Urry also offers a positive program - “bringing everything home.”
Tourist. A new theory of the leisure class. Dean McCannell
American professor of landscape architecture Dean McCannell may not have been the first to talk about tourism as a key phenomenon of modern culture, but it was certainly his idea to make it the basis of an entire social theory. At the same time, McCannell was not a professional sociologist at all, but rather, as he himself wrote, a “theoretical activist.” His book was first published in 1976 and has long become a classic. In theory, it should already be outdated: modern global tourism was just beginning in the 70s, but it was precisely the desire to quickly describe the emerging new view, to see a new model of a person in the world traveling in search of an interesting slacker, to describe the practice of recreation as a certain system, language, gave McCannell's letter a poignancy that is still felt today. The book can be read in conjunction with "Offshores" by Urry, who was also interested in tourism.
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About the State Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu, one of the main figures in sociology and indeed in humanitarian thought in the second half of the last century, has been translated into Russian quite thoroughly. Now it comes to his later lectures at the Collège de France - the most massive and fundamental of Bourdieu’s works that the Russian reader has encountered so far. It’s worth saying right away that this is not a textbook: knowledge and approaches are not summarized here, but a theory is created before our eyes, and just before our eyes it is linked to everyday life - in this case, the everyday life of France at the turn of the 80s and 90s. The subject is the state itself. However, in Bourdieu’s interpretation, it turns out to be not a series of management institutions, but a representation, an idea, a set of principles that exist in the minds of people and determine their behavior.
Marxism as a style Alexey Tsvetkov
Writer, publicist and activist Alexey Tsvetkov is one of those authors who knows how to make Marxist ideas attractive without simplifying them. And it seems that now is the time for this. After the 2012 protests, a large part of the previously apolitical people moved to the left, and this drift continues to this day. A new collection of articles by Tsvetkov is also associated with it. Understanding the protest experience here is one of the important topics. But it is far from the only one: the fate of Soviet philosophers, Ioseliani and Miyazaki through the prism of Marxist analysis, school as a place for the formation of political thinking. Tsvetkov is a didacticist, a reasoner and at the same time a provocateur and a cunning man. You often want to disagree with him, even if you share many of your beliefs, but his texts always touch you and make you worry.
Notebooks 1933-1942 Simone Weil
One of the main Christian thinkers of the twentieth century, Simone Weil, on the contrary, shows the possibility of moving away from Marxism. Philosopher, leftist activist, heroine of the French Resistance, she came from the socialist quests of her youth in the 1930s to an unusual form of radical asceticism. Because of this, and also because at the center of her thought was the feeling of man’s falling away from God, his absence, Weil turned out to be a favorite figure of modern Christianity among people who are distrustful of religion. Weil, who died of exhaustion, has the distinct status of a saint, a martyr. It is precisely this, according to the translator of the book, Peter Epifanov, that “Notebooks” can call into question. Not because Weil turns out to be unworthy of her reputation here, but because instead of an icon a living person appears. Weil kept these notes throughout almost her entire adult life. However, this is more likely not a diary, but an experience of philosophical search. There are more than a thousand pages here - a huge amount of work for the translator, which also requires careful attention from the reader.
Publishing house of Ivan Limbach
Industry of consciousness Hans Magnus Enzensberger Van Gogh. Suicided by society Antonin Artaud There was no May 68 Gilles Deleuze Girl with a thumb Michelle Serre
Two years ago, the publishing house Ad Marginem launched the Minima series - pocket editions of texts fundamental to the development of modern political and aesthetic thought, and since then has been publishing books in small sets. The current one, consisting of four books, seems to be the most interesting in history. Texts by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, the most important left-wing poet of post-war Germany, who warned in the late 60s that new media would turn our minds into an industry. A small collection of political essays by Gilles Deleuze, who until now remained unknown to the Russian reader in the role of a newspaper columnist. The first Russian book by Michel Serres dedicated to the relationship between children and mobile devices: a far from boring media theory by one of the most poetic modern philosophers. And finally, a classic and hitherto untranslated essay by Antonin Artaud, dedicated to the mad artist Van Gogh, but in fact largely autobiographical.
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In the footsteps of Van Gogh. Notes from 1949 Maria and David Burliuk
Another book related to Van Gogh is a very nice artifact from the international history of the avant-garde. In 1922, the former anarchist and main painter of Russian futurism, David Burliuk, moved to the United States, where, which did not happen so often with Russian emigrants, he achieved recognition and, moreover, the reputation of the “American Van Gogh.” After the war, in 1949, the aging artist and his wife, writer Maria Burliuk, went to Arles on a kind of plein air pilgrimage to Van Gogh’s places. In essence, it was a postmodernist practice: Burliuk redrew Van Gogh’s landscapes, literally taking the place of his favorite artist. Meanwhile, “Marusya,” as he called his wife, kept a detailed travel diary with a report on the progress of the experiment.
You're just jealous of my jetpack Tom Gold
The British Tom Gold's comic book "Goliath" has already been published in Russian - a sad anti-militarist parable based on biblical history, but this book is of a completely different kind. A collection of strips that Gold has been writing for The Guardian newspaper for many years. And in this art there is hardly a better author now than him. Short stories per page, intelligent absurdist jokes, the heroes of which are Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austen. And nearby are dinosaurs, superheroes, robots. Gold's specialty is his incredibly witty old-fashionedness. He does not try to modernize the cliches of high culture, to plunge them into modernity. On the contrary, Gold wholeheartedly belongs to book culture, which suddenly woke up in the world of funny pictures. His humor is not parodic conceit, but rather gentle, piercing bewilderment.
Boombook
Song machine. Inside the hit factory John Seabrook
American journalist John Seabrook is the author of the famous book Nobrow, which in 2000 declared the final end of the division between high and low culture. This book is dedicated to musical hits. At first, it seems a little outdated: the music industry as a huge business that produces a product according to a certain canon and formats the market for itself does not sound particularly new. Nevertheless, Seabrook's book is very interesting to read because he is not interested in abstract models, but in specifics. It reads more like a grotesque novel about clever inventors than cultural criticism. Seabrook examines the anatomy of a modern pop hit, describes its emergence, and writes about the people who came up with it. And, oddly enough, you get carried away by his story, even if you’ve never listened to Rihanna or Kesha.
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Dark matter and dinosaurs. The amazing interconnection of events in the Universe Lisa Randall
Lisa Randall is an American theoretical physicist, string theorist, and one of the rare authors who can turn physics into action-packed storytelling. Her “Twisted Passages” about the hidden dimensions of space have already been translated into Russian. The newest book is devoted to a question that has worried most of the world's population since childhood: why did dinosaurs become extinct? The culprit, according to Randall, is dark matter that got in the way of the Sun and changed its movement. Some scientists find Randall's theory far-fetched, but her ability to scientifically connect the history of the Earth with astronomical events is fascinating. It seems to be the most interesting of the scientific-pop novelties of the fair.
Alpina non-fiction
The Mystery of the Margalit Fox Labyrinth
A kind of linguistic detective story dedicated to deciphering the so-called Linear B. Tablets with the texts of one of ancient writings in the world were found on Crete in 1900 by archaeologist Arthur Evans. Half a century later, the Englishman Michael Ventris and the American Alice Kober came to decipher it almost simultaneously. However, the name of the latter has almost disappeared from history, and it is to her that this book is dedicated. Evans and Ventris become the framing figures for the story of the woman who has until now remained in their shadow. There is a distinct feminist attitude to this, but that is not the point here. More important is the intellectual adventure itself: Margalit Fox follows in the footsteps of Kober, like Conan Doyle followed Holmes, but at the same time eschews ostentatious sensationalism. A very worthy scientific journalist.
The film company "Kim Jong Il" presents Paul Fisher
A documentary novel by American journalist Paul Fisher about an extremely eccentric episode from the biography of the previous dictator of North Korea. When Kim Jong Il was young, his main hobby was cinema, and his main dream was to create a North Korean Hollywood. To implement this plan, the heir ordered the kidnapping of the South Korean cinema star Choi Eun Hee and her husband Si Sang Ok, one of the main South Korean directors. Almost from prison, the prisoners got to the set and began creating new cinematography almost from scratch. Considering the fashion for North Korean cinema that has spread among Russian intellectuals over the past couple of years, Fischer’s book will come in handy here.
Phantom Press
Army of Life Yuri Shchekochikhin
Yuri Shchekochikhin was one of the most famous Russian political journalists. However, this career began for him only during perestroika. Before that, Shchekochikhin worked in " Literary newspaper"and dealt with the problems of teenagers. It was these early texts that were published - for the first time since then - in this book. Heroes - football fans, hippies, punks, bikers, Nazis, black marketeers, just punks. All of them are drawn to Shchekochikhin as one of the few representatives of the adult world who is interested in their destinies. However, all these heroes are not his own - completely alien, incomprehensible. He looks at them through the eyes of a man of late stagnation, but not as scum or enemies and not as saviors, the best, but as children. And this book is precisely about the relationship between fathers and children in one collapsing society.
Lisa Birger's choice
Investigator Karasik. 12 riddles for children and parents Ekaterina Krongauz
Ill. Inga Khristich
Children's detective riddles in one bite: who took the tires off mom's car and stole the penguin in kindergarten and where did grandma's glasses go? According to its idea, “Investigator Karasik” is a game of attentiveness, entertainment of the purest water, but in fact, young Ksyusha, nicknamed Karasik, demonstrates such fearlessness, independence and an understanding of justice, incredible for a preschooler, that our sages never dreamed of. It’s amazing how much a smart and understanding author can fit into a kindergarten book: here is the evil teacher whom young Karasik opposes, and the upbringing of her mother’s nasty friends and thieving janitors, and the need from a young age to solve for herself the philosophical question of how to deal with those who do not He’s embarrassed to steal our cats. This is generally an interesting and inevitable twist in any detective stories for children - here it is necessary first of all to define good and evil. In this sense, “Investigator Karasik” is simply an ideal book: the world here is not at all simple, but multi-layered, and puzzles for kids become the beginning of a conversation about how to exist in this world.
Pink giraffe
Fairy tales-comics Rotraut Suzanne Berner
We know and love the artist Rotraut Susanne Berner - both for the silent series “Town” and for the adventures of the anthropomorphic little hare Karlchen. Berner somehow especially understands a completely childish world and, like no one else, is able to completely reinvent it: nuns wander around her town, and posters from Maurice Sendak hang on the walls. "Comic Fairy Tales" are the stories of the Brothers Grimm retold in pictures: Rapunzel, Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood and others. In "Fairy Tales-Comics" there are games by the author with the plot: Rapunzel meets her prince with two adult twin sons, and happy Hans, going home with a piece of gold, exchanges it until he returns to his mother with empty pockets— but in the end, the plots of the Brothers Grimm are certainly not carved in stone. But the key here is the author’s ability to speak so accessible and simply that stories that are not at all modernized, which are 200 years old, become absolutely understandable to a reader of any age.
Melik-Pashayev
Dinosaurs at dusk Mary Pope Osborne
Ill. Sal Murdock
The American classic is a series of books in which brother and sister Jack and Annie discover a magical house on a tall oak tree, and in the house there are many books, each of which allows you to go on an exciting journey: be it in prehistoric times or in the Middle Ages. It is clear that a house full of magical books is a metaphor not so much for a time machine as for a library - with the help of these stories, more than one generation of American children was taught to read. The main thing is that today we can open them for the same purpose - this is a simple, exciting and child-friendly reading, where there are kind and brave heroes, exciting adventures, plots that you can’t tear yourself away from, and educational facts. That is, if for some reason a child does not read, and it is important for us that he reads, then “The Magic Tree House” is in his hands.
Career Press
The Twirly Tail, or The Life of Forty-Mink Hill, Full of Songs, Gingerbread, Kidnappings and Deeds Thorbjörn Egner
Thorbjörn Egner is the author of The Cardamom Robbers, beloved by many since childhood, a Norwegian writer (and translator of Winnie the Pooh into Norwegian, which is undoubtedly heard in his own texts), who created incredibly cozy and completely hermetic worlds in his children's books. His "Twisted Tail" was published in Russia only once - in a translation by Lyudmila Braude, under a different title ("Adventures in the Yolki-na-Gorka Forest") and without the author's illustrations. But only now, with illustrations and songs, in Olga Drobot’s careful and respectful translation of the original, can one fully appreciate the story of how the cheerful mice and other inhabitants of the Forty-Minek Hill taught Mikkel the fox not to eat forest animals, saved the bear cub Pykhtyu and celebrated it's a fun holiday. All these books were written in the 60s, and the possibility of a happy, peaceful life - and even the confidence in its inevitability, which today seems utopian - becomes the main theme here.
White crow
Snowman Raymond Briggs
The book by English artist Raymond Briggs was first published in 1980 and has not been forgotten since then - it is a modern classic from one of the main creators of today's comics culture. It didn’t even need to be translated particularly, because there aren’t any words here at all. This is a children's comic about a boy who made a snowman and went to bed, and at night the snowman came to visit him, ceremoniously greeted him, raising his bowler hat, played, tried on his father's suspenders, lay down to rest in the refrigerator and finally flew, taking the boy by the hand, over some... then a completely Russian landscape: golden domes sunk in the snow and lonely huts. In the morning, the snowman melted under the sun, but Briggs’ tale is not about sadness at all, not about the experience of loss, but about the fact that the imaginary sometimes becomes more real than the real, and what an amazing, incredible miracle it is when this happens.
Polyandria
Starry, starry night Jimmy Liao
Taiwanese artist Jimmy Liao is one of the most important book artists of our day. Liao is not an illustrator, but rather an artist - he composes all his stories himself, in all of them the starting point is the picture, as if in a cartoon, they all immerse us in inner world a child, where real transformations are possible: for example, the heroine of this book becomes a dragon in order to protect her silent neighbor from offenders. Each metaphor in Liao is embodied in images: when the main character’s grandfather dies, her house seems to be entwined with the roots of strange trees, when she watches the lonely and sad neighbor boy, his walks around the city seem to her wandering through trap-staircases and labyrinths overgrown with greenery, and when the heroine and her friend become close, the world undergoes a real transformation. The simple idea that there is nothing more wonderful in the world than temporarily conquered loneliness is expressed by Liao with the utmost artistic brightness, and he has no equal in this.
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber
Hilda and the Troll /Hilda and the Midnight Giant Luke Pearson
The British illustrator, one of the authors of the Adventure Time series, came up with a heroine who will soon become the main character of her own series - a fearless Scandinavian girl who tirelessly gets into various magical stories: elves, giants, talking pieces of wood. These are the kind of books in which the most interesting thing is always hidden on the next page, the kind of endless space of adventure that promises pure reading pleasure. And at the same time, these are completely children's comics, without venturing into the territory of dark and complex adult fantasies. In general, anyone who has ever held Hilda in their hands will understand why American children of past decades spent all their pocket money on comics.
Mann, Ivanov and Ferber
Mother Goose Christmas tree /Christmas tree. The latest edition for gifts in poetry and prose /Twelve months
Of all the publishing houses that have been spun and carried away by the tornado of reissues of all sorts of old books, “Labyrinth” copes with the task in the best possible way: here they always find something, reassemble, re-invent it and degenerate the classics into modernity. Make a cleverly designed cardboard book with windows out of “The House That Jack Built”, arrange a book-performance from Marshakov’s “Circus”, publish classic Russian poems by Alla Akhundova, Roman Sef, Grigory Kruzhkov with classical drawings by Mikhail Fedorov, changing everything compositionally, - all this is "Labyrinth". So close to New Year's holidays It's worth going to the Labyrinth for a bag of gifts. These are, for example, the interactive “Twelve Months”, on each page of which a theatrical backdrop is revealed. Mother Goose's poems, familiar from childhood, in classical Russian translations and English illustrations. And “Yolka” is a Christmas almanac in the best traditions of the century before last with poems, stories, puzzles, carnival masks and a commented retelling of “The Nutcracker.” Delightful entertainment - behind which there are many years of careful and painstaking work.
Labyrinth
Osha Annie Schmidt
Ill. Fip Westendorp
We fell in love with Annie M. G. Schmidt and her permanent illustrator Fip Westendorp for the stories about Sasha and Masha - this is how the Dutch names Yip and Janeke were translated into Russian. Even before the increase in demand for everything modern and children's, "Sasha and Masha" showed how ordinary everyday children's games and chatter turn into literature, how a small, almost insignificant event in a child's life can become the beginning of a large and important experience. "Oshenka" in a sense is designed the other way around - main character and her chef dad, who suffers from outbursts of uncontrollable rage, are more friends with mice and birds than with people, which becomes the cause of all their ordeals (with a happy ending, of course). But the main thing remains unchanged: Schmidt is able to sympathetically portray the kind, magical children’s world, and firmly connect it with the adult world.
Imagine: A New Look at Giant Numbers and Vast Quantities David J. Smith, Steve Adams
A fun science for children is to compare the incomparable. For example, the size of the solar system and the size of the universe. If, for example, we imagine the Milky Way the size of a plate, then we will not be able to see anything on it. solar system- it will shrink somewhere to a speck of dust, - not the entire Universe - it, in turn, will turn out to be the size of Ryazan region. And if all the water on Earth is represented in the form of 100 glasses, then all the fresh water available to people will occupy only one of these glasses. And if all the money on Earth is represented in the form of 100 coins, then half of the planet’s population will have to divide one coin among everyone. Smith’s book is good not even because it invites us to fantasize about the world and the Universe - the main thing is that it presents a very clear infographic of the modern world - consumption, progress, economics, technology and, above all, inequality, without it you can’t go anywhere. In general, grab it if you really want to tell your children how it all works.
Walking into history
History of the old apartment Alexandra Litvina
Ill. Anya Desnitskaya
This is, of course, a perfect bomb and - undoubtedly --domestic book of the year. The historian Alexandra Litvina, together with the artist Anya Desnitskaya (this is not their first joint book, just remember “Metro on the Ground and Under the Ground” - the history of trains and metro construction) compiled a visual aid to the history of the 20th century from household items in a separate Moscow apartment. This is not only the story of one apartment, but also the family living in it—the Muromtsev family. The family is compacted, relocated, and by the beginning of the next century, the Muromtsevs’ apartment is no longer a home, but a fashionable cafe, with only a sofa remaining from the material history of the last century. And this end of the story seems as perfect as the rest of the decisions of this book: all the objects that we have to look at, all the memories of the heroes that we have to read, all the dates and events to which these stories are tied. The inseparability of the private, the general and everyday life, the subtle connection between an old toy and a newspaper editorial, as well as the impossibility for modern man to get out from under the burden of this past - all this is conveyed here with absolute accuracy.
Karma Katie Ostler
"Fourth Street", an imprint of the publishing house "Pink Giraffe", which promised us smart teenage prose, finally returns with an absolutely wonderful novel, and even translated by Dmitry Karelsky - this alone is enough to recommend it. The heroine of the book goes to India, the homeland of her parents, where she herself has never been. Her father and mother, a Sikh and a Hindu, fell in love and got married, but were forced to leave India for Canada by the wrath of their relatives. But after almost 10 years in a foreign land, the family never fit into this alien life - the mother committed suicide and now returns home ashes in a tin box. Karma is a very accurate book about a teenager's search for identity: you don't have to be the only person in a sari in a small Canadian town to feel that alienation and try to overcome it. But in fact, this is a stunningly precise and concise novel about feelings and how to deal with those feelings when they sweep you off your feet, just as the heroine is swept off her feet by the sights, sounds and smells of India upon first meeting. It's hard to imagine a topic that interests teenagers more.
Pink giraffe
Great feelings. Basic truths Comp. Maria Golovanivskaya
Ill. Khadiya Ulumbekova
This is not the first anthology of adult answers to complex questions compiled by the publishing house Clever; for example, there were simply “Elemental Truths” a couple of years ago. The list of participants is already remarkable: Sergei Gandlevsky talks about gratitude, Lyudmila Ulitskaya - about pride, Alexander Ilichevsky - about guilt. At the same time, the texts are striking in their editorial and intonation inconsistency: some of them are written completely for children (for example, Boris Akunin’s article about hatred), others do not want to make allowances for the age and cognitive abilities of the reader, such as, for example, the strongest story by Alexander Arkhangelsky about timidity or poignant text by Dmitry Vodennikov about sadness: “Our eyes were created by evolution to watch if a predator is creeping up on us, our hands - to take an object in them, and our love - to be finite.” And of course, where the author decides not to stand on ceremony with the reader, “Big Feelings” becomes a truly outstanding collection. In the end, it’s about the fact that in Russia there is public thought and the opinions of people who are interesting to us can fill an entire alphabet.
Stolen City Yulia Yakovleva
The only - and best - attempt to grow children's fantasy from Russian history of the last century. In the first book of the promised five-volume series by Yulia Yakovleva, “Children of the Raven,” the main characters, Shurka and Tanya, are left alone in 1938, without their father, who suddenly and mysteriously left on a business trip, and their mother and brother who have disappeared without a trace. “The Raven took it away,” they whisper around, and the children find the strength to fight the terrible Raven who has captured Leningrad. New book - 1941, blockade: Shurka and Tanya always have stomach ache, and their heads are foggy from hunger, leaving home, they hide the dog so as not to eat it, people fall down in the street before their eyes, dying. Yakovleva’s book is structured in such a way that it is never clear whether the fantastic events actually happened or were just imagined in the general confusion. It seems to the children themselves that this city fulfills all their desires - if you start complaining to it, it will save you. And Yakovleva’s city, of course, is real - as is hunger, misfortune, the daily battle for life and the need to protect her simple property from its new owners.
Three quarters Anna Dyer
Ill. Kasia Denisevich
Teenage book about the 90s: the main character is 12 years old, she goes into new school and desperately tries to fit into an incomprehensible school life, where you have to be strong and follow the unwritten teenage rules so as not to be trampled. Anna Krasilshchik's first teenage novel consists slightly less than entirely of pictures and conversations - the heroine constantly talks with her mother about what is happening outside the window, discusses her interests and hobbies with her friend. And it seems that the main thing here is that no talking, no loving parents can't protect you from the usual teenage troubles. "Three Quarters" could be a primer on how the world of twelve-year-olds works, and how we, adults, can easily overlook the tragedy behind such everyday chatter. The book has stunning illustrations - the work of the artist Kasia Denisevich: in the memory of children of the 90s, gray houses and half-empty kiosks are magically transformed, the ugliness of the past is erased and a new old world is built.
White crow
From November 28 to December 2, 2018, the Central House of Artists hosts the traditional Fair of Intellectual Literature Non/fiction, the third floor of the Central House of Artists is occupied by stands of the best children's publishing houses and the “Territories of Knowledge” children's playground, divided into five thematic halls.
One of them presents modern Czech illustration: works by David Boehm, Pavel Cech, Lucie Lomova, Petr Nikl and others.
A separate room is dedicated to Igor Oleinikov’s new book – the graphic novel “Teremok” (based on the fairy tale “Mouse-Noryshka” by V. Dahl). This room also shows illustrations that were not included in the publication.
Italy was the fair's guest of honor, so here you can visit two Italian exhibitions at once - contemporary Italian illustration and Russian illustration for an Italian children's book.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the great Russian children's writer and translator Boris Zakhoder, the famous Russian-Finnish artist Alexander Reichstein presents an interactive exhibition dedicated to his life and work. In addition to illustrations for Zakhoder’s works and translations, the “Territories of Knowledge” have built huge interactive installations for children of all ages.
Also, especially for non/fictio No. 20, the Russian State Children's Library, together with the best children's publishing houses, Embassies and cultural centers, prepared an extensive program, including more than 120 events.
Will take part in the program famous writers from Italy Paola Zannoner and Nadya Terranova, Czech authors and illustrators Katarina Matsurova and Vendula Halankova, French writer Clementine Beauvais, writers from Norway Maria Parr and Alfred Fidjestøl, British writer and artist Rob Biddulph, American writer Amy Harmon.
Particular attention is paid to master classes and meetings with the participation of illustrators - such recognized European masters as Piotr Karsky (Poland), as well as young but already famous Russian illustrators - Yuri Skomorokhov, Masha Krasnova-Shabaeva, Masha Berezina, Timofey Maximov and etc.
During the events of the children's program, Marina Aromshtam, Maria Buras, Jacob Wegelius (Sweden), Mikhail Wiesel, Alexander Gavrilov, Arthur Givargizov, Sergey Dmitriev, Andrey Zhvalevsky, Ekaterina Zhdanova and other respected writers, literary critics, translators, teachers will also meet with young readers and scientists.
Schedule of performances and theater master classes:
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Hall 25
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Hall 25
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Hall 25
Hall 25
Exhibition opening hours: November 28 - from 14.00 to 20.00,
November 29, December 2 - from 11.00 to 20.00,
November 30, December 1 - from 11.00 to 21.00.
A detailed schedule of the children's program can be found
Inevitable, unexpected and children's books, without which a trip to a frosty book fair, according to the Year of Literature, would be incomplete (Part I)
Text: Mikhail Vizel/GodLiteratury.RF
On the eve of the opening of the Non/Fiction fair, all newspapers and news sites publish their list of recommendations: without forty, fifty-five or four times thirty books it is impossible to leave the fair. We look at the world, at the role modern literature in it and on the purchasing power of the citizens inhabiting it, more realistically. And we offer ours list of eighteen books. But we would gladly buy each of them ourselves - if we had it at home more space(not to mention purchasing power).
I. Russian books
Despite the English name of the fair, we are still primarily interested in contemporary domestic authors. With whom you can say hello and get an autograph.
1. Alexey Ivanov. “Tobol. Many invited"
Alexey Ivanov alternates in his work works that are cutting-edge and, for this reason alone, causing an ambiguous attitude - and epic historical paintings. "Tobol" is one of the latter. The glaring contradictions of Peter the Great's era, which broke the strong ice of tradition even in Siberia, are revealed by him clearly and visibly, like in a movie. However, this is a movie: filming of the series of the same name is about to begin. But the experience of film adaptations of Ivanov’s works shows that it is better to read the book first.
2. Andrey Filimonov. "Tadpole and the Saints"
M.: Ripol-classic, series “What to read?”
We wrote about this book for a long time - but its release was postponed. And finally, the story of a Siberian village, whose residents not only drink and goof off, but also easily communicate with pagan gods and fly through the sky on a glider, and the head of the village administration, who calls himself a “tadpole,” sleeps in prophetic dreams for six months, has reached the readers . We congratulate all interested parties on this.
3. Dmitry Novikov. "Holomyana Flame"
M.: AST, Edited by Elena Shubina.
Dmitry Novikov is a real Karelian gem. Not in the sense that he just appeared. And the fact that he sits leisurely in his Karelian soil and does not shine at literary parties. Already from the title of his first big book it is clear that he is a special and original writer. However, there is nothing unusual in the plot of the novel itself: an adult man goes on a hike around the edges of the White Sea, and at the same time - into my own childhood and into the history of my Karelian ancestors. And right before the reader’s eyes, another white spot is painted over. It’s not just painted over, it’s filled with blood.
Without a number
Leonid Yuzefovich, “Winter Road”
M.: AST, Edited by Elena Shubina.
It’s somehow not very correct to write about a book presented at the last “Non/Fiction”. But it is also impossible to ignore the book, which, in our opinion, will definitely be among the top three winners of the “Big Book” in a couple of days, if it does not become a winner. If "premium process" is important to you, don't miss the opportunity to purchase it a little early.
II. Transferable
As Pavel Basinsky rightly notes, dividing literature into “domestic” and “foreign” is a schoolboy convention. Russian literature is part of the world. And period. But still there are nuances: for example, the personality of the translator, which leaves an imprint on the personality of the author, etc.
4. Julian Barnes. Per. from English E. Petrova. "The Noise of Time"
Great Britain is the guest of honor at this year's fair. And Julian Barnes, frankly speaking, is the most honorable of these honored guests, with all due respect to his colleagues, who were not afraid of the Russian frosts. Moreover, it was a very fortunate coincidence that he wrote a real “Russian novel”, which he will personally present at the fair. So leave without a copy of the book English writer with a portrait of the great Russian composer on the cover is simply impossible. Although, let's be honest: getting Barnes' autograph will be problematic - all events with his participation are already sold out and overbooked. Because English literature (and not only literature) has long and firmly been the “guest of honor” in the hearts and minds of Russian readers.
5. Hanya Yanagihara. Per. from English A. Borisenko, A. Zavozova, V. Sonkina. "Little Life"
M.: AST, Corpus
Since you are gathered at Non/Fiction, it means that they have already told you a dozen times that this is the main translated book of the season. (At the same time, sometimes omitting the clarification “translated”). We won't argue with that: the book really shows how far American romance has come. And it deserves careful and leisurely reading. And if where to buy this seven-hundred-page volume, then, of course, at Non/Fiction. And don’t wait, the fair may end by the end.
6. Alessandro Baricco. Per. from Italian A. Mirolyubova. "Young Bride"
M., Azbuka-Atticus, Inostranka, 2016
And if 700 pages seem overwhelming to you, pay attention to one of the main modern European writers, Alessandro Baricco, whose main talent is to come up with fascinating stories literally out of nothing: from a skein of silk (“Silk”), from a broken gramophone record (“The Nine Hundred, or the Legend” about the pianist"). Here too, the writer takes on a banal theme, a bourgeois marriage of convenience: Italian cloth manufacturers are ready to intermarriage with rich Argentine cattle dealers. And he “twists” an extraordinary parable out of it. A girl comes from Argentina to her fiancé, and discovers that the groom has disappeared, and the whole family is not too worried about this, because in their house it is customary to live every day as if it were the only one. And the Young Bride is cordially invited to enter a world where dream flows into reality, a prim family nest into a luxurious brothel, and “she” into “I” and then back into “he.” Moreover, under all these twists, the plot does not lose clarity, and the story remains entertaining. A little novel by a great master!
7. Orhan Pamuk. Per. From Turkish by A. Avrutina. "Red-haired woman"
M.: Azbuka-Atticus, Inostranka.
But extremes can be avoided. The novelty of the ten-year-old Nobel laureate and the newly minted winner of the Yasnaya Polyana Prize is not an unbearable brick or a piece of jewelry, but simply a very good modern novel in which the past is inextricably linked with the present, the love line is with the spiritual growth of a boy who is becoming a man before our eyes , mythological - with the real. Even if you have passed over the fashion for Orhan Pamuk and his “Istanbul novels”, this novel is worth starting to get to know him. Moreover, in the spring the author promises to come to Russia to give the “Yasnaya Polyana lecture.”
III. Non-fiction
Buying non-fiction books at the Non/Fiction fair - what could be more natural! The abundance and diversity of “non-fictional literature”, which has long gone far from dry science-pop and pseudo-fictionalized biographies, is simply eye-opening. Let's try to put them together.
8. Martin Ford. Per. from English S. Chernina. "The robots are coming"
M.: Alpina Non-fiction
Intelligent miracle robots have been providing income and fame to science fiction writers and Hollywood filmmakers for a good half a century, but only very recently have they been able to be adapted for the practical needs of the rest of humanity. Which immediately gave rise to questions posed by these same science fiction writers ahead of time: do we trust our electronic assistants too much? Will there be a real Sarah Connor who will be able to stop the real Terminator? A professional programmer and computer hardware developer, Ford directly admits: yes, the world of people with the advent of even the first rudiments of artificial intelligence will never be the same. Everything will change - education, medicine, leisure and consumption. But whether this will make people or machines more comfortable still depends on the former.
9. Natalia Azarova, Kirill Korchagin, Dmitry Kuzmin. "Poetry. Textbook".
M.: OGI
Despite its academic appearance and length (almost 900 pages!), this book is almost scandalous. Firstly, the authors are convinced that poetry has no relation to literature, and therefore it must be considered separately from the course of literary studies; and secondly, this book is in no way a manual on “how to write poetry.” No one claims to make scientific discoveries by reading a physics textbook. But, as in the case of a physics textbook, having studied a poetry textbook, written consistently and comprehensively, you can get a clear idea - including examples from the classics to the latest contemporaries - about this truly mysterious subject. And don’t let yourself be fooled by fakes. The book came out in the spring and quickly sold out. The second edition has arrived for “Non/Fiction”. Which makes me happy - in every sense.
10. Dmitry Oparin, Anton Akimov,
M.: EKSMO
“Non/Fiction” is still not a KRYAKK, which attracts bookworms from all over Siberia, it is a purely Moscow fair. And this book is an example of “new” Moscow studies, based not only on digging in archives (although where would we be without them), but on live conversations with living people. Why? there are houses, if not the totality of people who inhabited them and are inhabiting them? The authors examine 25 old houses, from the Bulgakov House on Bolshaya Sadovaya, known to all Muscovites, and the Icebreaker on Granatny Lane, to the relatively little-known constructivist complex on the street. Lestev, and they tell not only when and under what circumstances they were built, what stucco molding and parquet were preserved in them, but also who lived in them. And under what circumstances did they stop living? These circumstances are often tragic. Because houses are historical monuments, even if not architectural monuments. That's what the book is about.
11. Scott McCloud. Per. from English V. Shevchenko. "Understanding Comics"
M.: White Apple
In fact, this colorful book, published by a small Moscow publishing house, is a real textbook. But it doesn't look like a textbook at all. This is just a witty and colorful comic. On the spreads of which it is clearly explained how the sequence of pictures built by the artist differs from just a series of pictures, how the text “works” in comics, what a time loop and a pyramid of meaning are. By the way, have you already noticed that the central character of this book, its narrator, depicted on the cover, is very similar to Harry Potter? But in the original language, Understanding Comics was published in 1992. And the first book about Harry Potter was published in 1997. Coincidence? So think about it.
Publishers traditionally prepare “heavy artillery” for the annual Non/fiction fair: here they present the main new intellectual literature, hold interesting meetings and open interviews with the authors of the most current publications.
What events are worth attending this year and what new book releases to pay special attention to - read the AiF.ru review.
Events
What: Through the noise of time. Open interview with Julian Barnes
Where: Cinema and Concert Hall of the Central House of Artists
The guest of honor at the fair this year is Great Britain, which will bring a real kaleidoscope of famous authors to the Moscow Central House of Artists. One of them is the classic of British literature, Booker Prize winner Julian Barnes, who is often called the British Umberto Eco or modern Oscar Wilde. Many people are familiar with his name, he is the author international bestsellers“England, England”, “Flaubert’s Parrot”, “Premonition of the End”, “The Noise of Time”. And on December 3, the Moscow public will be able to meet a living classic of modern literature for the first time.
What: Russian Booker Award
Where: Press center of the Central House of Artists
“Russian Booker” is the oldest independent literary prize in Russia, awarded annually for the best novel of the year in Russian. It has won and maintains its reputation as the country's most prestigious literary prize. However, this year is special for the Russian Booker: the prize will be awarded for the 25th anniversary. They decided to mark the event by releasing a book that documents the entire history of the literary award: in press responses, articles and documents.
What: "War and Peace". Open interview with a British screenwriter Andrew Davis
Where: Cinema and concert hall
What hasn’t been written about the British serial adaptation of the novel? Lev Tolstoy"War and Peace", filmed specifically for the BBC. Some criticized the film's numerous differences from the source material, while others praised it for its flamboyant and expensive production. Be that as it may, now Russian viewers can personally express their opinion about the series to one of its creators.
On December 3, the famous British screenwriter Andrew Davis, who also worked on the series “Pride and Prejudice”, “House of Cards”, and films about Bridget Jones, will come to the Non/fiction fair.
What: Round table of the family Lecture “Hedgehog the Hedgehog”: “Why children don’t read and what to do about it”
Where: Literary cafe, room 13
A question that worries many parents: why don’t children read and what to do about it? This is the name of the round table, which on December 3 at the fair is organized by the family lecture “Hedgehog Hedgehog”. At 13:00, journalists, linguists, writers and simply active popularizers will gather at one table children's reading who are confident that time spent on the Internet can easily be replaced by reading your favorite book, and will tell you how to make it the best gift.
What:Ekaterina Drozdova. “Where to start your library. Important books for gourmets"
Where: Seminar area “Gastronomy”, hall 18
This year, the gastronomic program of the fair is especially surprising with its diversity: unusual events and interesting meetings. One of them is a lecture by Ekaterina Drozdova, which will introduce listeners to the best publishing houses, authors, illustrators, trends and awards in the gastronomic world. The meeting will be useful to everyone who has at least once asked themselves the question: why is it possible to cook with some books, but not with others? What books should beginner cooks read? And what foods should you have in your refrigerator?
Books
Ray Bradbury "We are the carpenters of the invisible cathedral"
For the first time, the book “We are the carpenters of the invisible cathedral” by an American writer was translated into Russian Ray Bradbury, well known throughout the world for his dystopia “Fahrenheit 451,” the series of short stories “The Martian Chronicles” and the partially autobiographical story “Dandelion Wine.”
“We Are the Carpenters of the Invisible Cathedral” is a collection of the author’s early stories, in which the style of a science fiction classic is already recognizable. It contains all the main themes of Bradbury's work, he writes about the extraterrestrial and terrestrial, about secrets, choices, adventures and a new era of humanity.
Hanya Yanagihara "A Little Life"
"A Little Life" by Hawaiian Writer Hani Yanagihara can easily be called one of the most anticipated books of this fair. The novel has been discussed for more than a year, and everyone who has read it in the original agrees that it is a difficult, dark, heartbreaking and at the same time stunning story.
Those who have not yet heard anything about A Little Life should at least know that it is a story about four New York friends: a lawyer, a Hollywood actor, a fashion artist and an architect. And also what many call it a dark version of Sex and the City.
Boris Messerer “A glimpse of Bella. Romantic chronicle"
Most recently, the series “Mysterious Passion” ended on Channel One, which caused a new wave of discussions about the work, life and morals of the sixties poets. In light of this, my husband's new book Bella Akhmadulina artist Boris Messerer, “A glimpse of Bella. Romantic chronicle" seems even more relevant and interesting for readers.
Messerer wrote memoirs in which he tried to capture those very dramatic and romantic years of the sixties. Among the heroes of his book: Joseph Brodsky, Vasily Aksyonov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, David Burliuk, Lilya Brik, Boris Erdman, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Sergey Yutkevich, Mikhail Baryshnikov, IN Ladimir Vysotsky and many, many others.
Alexey Ivanov “Tobol. Many invited"
Another landmark event for book lovers, this is the historical novel “Tobol. Many are called" classic of modern Russian prose Alexey Ivanov. The author of the novel “The Geographer Drank His Globe Away” dedicated his new work to the conquest of Siberia by European civilization. It is interesting that Ivanov himself calls his work a “peplum novel” and admits that he wrote it in memory of the large-scale and spectacular blockbusters from ancient Roman life in the golden era of Hollywood. It is already known that “Tobol. Many Called” will receive a sequel and will be filmed.
Sean Asher "Letters to Note: A Collection of Letters from Legendary People"
“Letters to Note” is a collection of interesting and unusual letters, notes and telegrams from legendary people. It also contains a note from the Queen. Elizabeth II to the President of the United States with a personal recipe for Scottish pancakes, and a letter Fyodor Dostoevsky brother Mikhail before the link, and the last letter Virginia Woolf to her husband, written by her before suicide, and a letter from a scientist Francis Crick, in which he explains the newly discovered structure of DNA to his son. In short, this is a unique museum of letters under a book cover with photographs of original documents.
The Non/Fiction fair of intellectual literature is one of the most exciting book events of the year. Just a couple of minutes ago the fair opened at the Central House of Artists. We at MIF always prepare a lot of surprises for Non/Fiction, and the main one among them is, of course, wow-new items, for adults and children.
We present long-awaited new items that you can see on nonfiction from November 30 to December 4. Be sure to come: more than 20 MYTH creators will be working at the stands. Let's meet and chat.
If you are a book fair lover, this is the place for you.
If you have never been to a book exhibition, this is the place for you.
If you don't have time to go to all the book events, go to one. NonFiction.
Rebecca's Little Theater
The world of the theater is created right before your eyes - stunning pages, each of which is cut out of paper and replete with the smallest details. On each of them you will see one fairy-tale hero who appears on stage here and now... And the show begins!
Meet! For the first time on the stage of the Little Theater are characters created by the famous French artist Rebecca Dautremer: the lamb Seraphim and the little kangaroo Petira, Thumb and Baba Yaga, Cyrano and Elvis, Alice lost in Wonderland, and amazing princesses, forgotten and unknown.
Create a story from the very first scene, gradually adding characters and layering pages one by one.
Starry, starry night
The girl who lived before with his grandparents in the mountains, moves to the city, to his parents’ apartment. The city seems to her a cold and soulless place, mom and dad constantly quarrel, and classmates don’t allow her to go to school. But everything changes when a new boy moves into the neighboring house... An inspiring and poignant story from Jimmy Liao will not leave anyone indifferent.
Simple, but very layered, both children and adults will love it.
Golden rules
Bob Bowman is one of the most successful coaches in history Olympic Games. He is primarily known as the coach of Michael Phelps, the record holder for the most awards in the history of the game. Its swimmers have set 43 world records and more than 50 national records USA.
In his book, Bob shares 10 rules that will help you set high goals, find motivation and achieve heights - in any area of life, not just in sports.
Culture for everyone
There is a new generation of companies consciously developing their people, creating a unique culture for people's continued individual growth and excellent business results. This book shows you how to create such a culture in your company.
The key to success is to develop everyone. This is the only way to become an organization of conscious development.
Leader and tribe
Birds flock together, fish move in schools, and people live in tribes. A tribe is a small community of 20 to 150 people. It is formed naturally. Thanks to the tribes, people survived glacial period, built the first villages and cities.
Any organization is a conglomerate of such communities. Today they are called teams, but the essence remains the same: only great tribes, led by great leaders, are capable of great things. How to become such a leader and create a strong team? The answers are in the breakthrough book Leader and Tribe.
The effectiveness of tribes depends on their culture. Every time people engage in conversation, their words reveal signs of one or another level of development of tribal culture.
Book of the Lazy Guru
A fresh and inspiring illustrated guide to mindful self-development without the fuss or stress. This is a book about how to achieve MORE by doing LESS. It is a way of looking at the world differently than we are used to - constantly struggling and putting ourselves under stress. Through illustrations, exercises and activities, Lores Shorter will help you restore your own creativity, inspiration and relaxation.
This powerful book will help you regain your flow state - without years of meditation.
Economics
Must-read for any citizen: economic history in an accessible form. An illustrated history of economic thought from the Middle Ages to the present. Goodwin looked at how the modern economy is changing under the influence climate change, wars and limited resources. With subtle humor, he shows readers the big picture without losing sight of specific events.
An intelligent and at the same time enjoyable book, accessible to readers without an economic background.
Night Tale
This is not an ordinary book, but a real shadow theater! Wait until evening or close the curtains, open this extraordinary book, take a flashlight - and see a miracle. This is a night fairy tale about an amazing city. Here they make films and catch a crocodile, ride a bungee and take to the sky in a hot air balloon.
The houses in the city stretch in a long line, and each of them has its own heroes and its own story. Which? Try to tell it yourself!
Big creative challenge
The Big Painting Challenge is a handy guide to painting and drawing that complements the BBC TV series of the same name. The book contains practical information useful exercises And step by step lessons(for almost all types of materials) that will help you in creative expression.
Are you ready to meet your inner artist?
Van Gogh's Starry Night
With this book you will take a fascinating journey through the history of fine art. You will find out what a primitive hunter, an ancient Chinese sculptor, an ancient Roman artist, a Baghdad calligrapher, a Japanese engraver, and a Victorian photographer were thinking about when creating their masterpieces.
Behind every work of art there is a person with his own unique destiny, his hopes and disappointments, joys and sorrows.
About the font
The font accompanies us everywhere: on product packaging, signs, TV and smartphone screens. German designer Erik Spiekermann will teach you to understand the intricacies of typography and communicate more effectively using this integral element of our lives.
This book uses simple and familiar examples to show that typography is not an art for the elite, but a powerful tool available to everyone.
Where's Warhol?
If Andy Warhol traveled back in time, where would he go? "Where's Warhol?" supplies him with his own time machine, and what do we see... Join Andy on his art historical journey through the past. From Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel to Jean-Michel Basquiat painting the streets of New York, from the French Impressionists and the Bauhaus.
Andy celebrated 12 significant moments in art history and invites readers to find him in each of them.
Through the eyes of a physicist
By introducing listeners to the wonders of physics, Walter Lewin creates magic. What is the professor's secret? “I bring people into their own world,” he says, “into the world in which they live and which they know quite well, but which they do not look at through the eyes of a physicist ... at least not yet. If, for example, I talk about waves on water, I ask the listeners, when they return home, to conduct some experiments in their own bath; this way they can see with their own eyes how closely they are connected to this phenomenon.”
The MIT professor whose riveting lectures made him a Youtube star talks about the most interesting discoveries in physics.
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