Deeply we sympathise with jury.
Deeply we sympathise with jury.
60 novels apply for the Bukerovsky award this year.
Announcement of the list of applicants for the Bukerovsky award 1998
The year, taken place this week in Oriental carpet-hotel,
Was marked by one valuable suggestion. Having listened to Vladimir
Smirnova, the representative of Fund Smirnoff (the second sponsor
Awards), the poet Lion Rubinshtejn has suggested to start operatively
Party of vodka with a portrait of the winner. And on the back - short
The novel maintenance. All have laughed, though it would be possible and
To have a little cry. If first it seemed, that "Buker" becomes
Tow, will inhale a new life in the Russian literary
Process, by seventh year of the existence the award
Distinctly zabuksovala and conversations on its end become all
More persistently. It is necessary to die down to a final dinner - and the winner
There and then forget. Turn behind its books, as in England, not
It is built, and books anybody to print does not hurry up.
Vladimir Novikov, the composer hrestomatii "All masterpieces the world
Literatures in a summary ", admitted, that all was exhausted
In search of the person whom spodvigsja to retell "the Trunk
Milashevicha "Mark Haritonova, won on the first"Bukere".
And the subsequent winners - Makanin, Okudzhava, Vladimov -
Were faster honourable winners, rather than opening and
predvestjami.
Being afraid of the competitor breathing in a back - "antibukera",
Which is famous for regular refusal of the winner of the award,
The last year's jury has tried to twirl an intrigue and has cut
Pelevin. Scandal left not all that well: Pelevin's general honouring
All the same any forced and compelled - by a principle "on
bezrybe and the cancer will whistle ". (After present ceremony of criticism
Leading editions were going to in private conditions and with
Surprise have found out, that almost nobody read Pelevin: not
Wished to be disappointed in a perfect legend). Among the present
Pelevin's applicants are not present, therefore there is no possibility
To continue tradition, to restore justice. In
Quality though any trick to public have offered "the record
Number "competitors - 60. However, in the special column three appeared
Already excluded things (as they mismatched
To competition conditions), but still a jury quantity straight off
Has promised to throw out. So, for example, Michael Veller's "Samovar"
Though has been printed in third number "Friendship of the people" for 1997
Year, but left the separate edition, "Se the person" even earlier
Ernest Burtina it is amicably recognised by not finished, and over that, it is possible
Whether to consider the collection of an essay of Victor Yerofeev of "Man" as the novel,
The jury promised to think strong.
Dispute on, whether there correspond put forward products to a genre
The novel, it has appeared unique possible dispute in a situation,
When more to discuss and there is nothing. Konstantin Kedrov has set,
The truth, rhetorical question: why the jury persistently ignores
"Originally modern literature", but also the answer has received
The adequate: "Here when we will not give the award to that to whom it is necessary -
Us will abuse ". The jury is going to every year new and for
Predecessors of responsibility, clearly, does not bear. In it
To year it rather nice: American Slavist Katerina
Clark, the translator and sociologist Boris Dubin, writer Michael
Kuraev, the former minister of culture and main "evtushenkoved"
Evgenie Sidorov, and heads collective literary critic Andrey
Zorin, the visible expert in Russian literature XVIII - XIX
Centuries.
But the jury, as though it was objectively and progressively,
Works with that nominators offer. Them this year 27
The person plus nine publishing houses. Who that has put forward -
Still remains secret, though the citizens receiving for these
Simple gesture some money, could and bear the elementary
Responsibility. Even after shrinkage and spillage on the formal
To signs in the list all the same there will be an enormous quantity
Messes. "The sensation such, - was dropped by one of experts, - that
Nominators simply scoff at jury ". It would be possible terribly
To give a yelp, that preliminary selection has turned to the trite
Small party if outside of the list there was something
The standing. But such is not present, because there is no it and in the modern
To the literature. At the list are present as classics (Vasily
Aksenov, Boris Vasilev, I.Grekova), and favourites of the last
Years (Alexey Slapovsky, Alexey Varlamov, Anatoly Gavrilov),
But the obvious favourite too is not present. Though Irina Poljanskoj's name
(The novel "shade Passage") also rustled on numbers. In
Competition publikatorov "the New world" has overtaken "Banner" (7
Nominations against 5), but promezh eternal competitors has squeezed
"October" (6).
Some hopes were assigned on "Small Buker", in destiny
Which this time there were changes: instead of the former
Authoritative nominating the Social council is created, and
The prize for the best product in a genre of the memoirs will be awarded
And the autobiographical prose devoted to a literary life
Russia. But, as the member of council Alexander Gavrilov (Ex has declared to us
libris "NG"), "against our expectations, a great bulk of this
Literatures either it is boring, or it is senseless. It seemed to us, that
Is a lot of prophetic, bringing the contribution to a genre, but to the separate
Editions they usually do not reach - as, for example, already almost
The original project which has developed in the book of magazine "October" -
"Notes of the literary person".
It seems, the writers not captured by awards any more does not remain,
However Petersburg the FOAMS-CENTERS, movable by belief in existence
A certain special Petersburg literature, has founded three more prizes.
For the best product in any genre, corresponding to ideals
Charters FOAM; for the best critical research devoted
To the Petersburg literature, and for the Act in book business. Is called
This award "Honour and freedom", in monetary measurement - $1000.
Therefore its each winner can quite consider itself as the finalist
"Bukera" which will receive as much. And the winner, whose name
$12500 will be named on December, 10th, as usually.
NIKOLAY MALININ.
//* an information Source: Russian telegraph, 4.07.98
//* Reg. Nom. - 1080700032.09-------------------------------------------
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