Fazil Iskander

Soprovoditelnaja statja Natali Ivanovoj. Satiricheskaja skazka Fazilja Iskandera "Kroliki i udavy" (1973) byla opublikovana lish cherez 13 let posle ee sozdanija, kogda "kroliki" chut osmeleli, a "udavy" slegka oslabili khvatku. Odnako videt v glubokoj filosofskoj pritche tolko zlobu dnja bylo by slishkom poverkhnostno i legkomyslenno. V uslovijakh politicheskoj nesvobody, litsemerija i dvojnoj morali okhotniki i zhertvy obrazujut prichudlivye i urodlivye soobschestva, iz kotorykh neprosto vyrvatsja. I put etot ochen dolog i ternist, neskolkikh desjatiletij na nego mozhet ne khvatit... Kak vsegda, Iskander mudr i aforistichen. "Vash gipnoz - eto nash strakh. Nash strakh - eto vash gipnoz". "Zhestokost - eto khrabrost trusov". "Poterjavshie ideal nachinajut idealizirovat pobedu. Zapomni: tam, gde mnogo govorjat o pobedakh, - ili zabyli istinu, ili prjachutsja ot nee". I nakonets, opjat i opjat aktualnoe: "Nas glotajut, a my poem! "Ivanova Natalja Borisovna - rossijskij literaturoved, literaturnyj kritik, publitsist. Doktor filologicheskikh nauk. Zamestitel glavnogo redaktora zhurnala "Znamja". Chitala lektsii po russkoj literature v universitetakh SSHA, Velikobritanii, Japonii, Frantsii, Italii i drugikh stran. Avtor bolee 500 rabot po russkoj literature, sredi kotorykh monografii o Fazile Iskandere, Jurii Trifonove, Borise Pasternake. Initsiator uchrezhdenija i koordinator premii Ivana Petrovicha Belkina.

This book introduces a collection of Fazil Iskander's poetry in English. This selection of 70 poems of the master of Russian and Abkhazian Literature Fazil Iskander,nominated for the Nobel Prize, presents the poetry that is wise and beautiful in its philosophy. It embraces poems by Fazil Iskander,written by him during the span of time bridging the twentieth and twenty first century, from 1953 to 2013. They organically intertwine the intricate layers of people's lives, their intriguing fates, interconnectedness and cultural phenomena. In his poems, there is always an inner subtext behind the exterior subject. This book of poetic translations also contains an article on the art of Fazil Iskander by a historian Roman Gosin, and an essay on Fazil Iskander's poetry, written by a linguist Sophia Manukova, who made this first publication possible by selecting and translating his poetry. Sophia Manukova is a professor of English at the City College of San Francisco, California.