Ступор между "Жуком" и "Сказкой". СОРОКИН – о языке, литературе и музыке во время войны

Sorokin reads his story "The Beetle," a powerful literary narcotic. Will a fairy tale with a happy ending lie ahead? Blow UP—photo enlargement, a look from the vantage point of eternal themes. Vladimir Sorokin, the Russian Cassandra, sees light in the tunnel, speaks of good premonitions, literature, and music during wartime, despite the carnage, despite twenty years of total deception. He reflects on the fact that • Good must triumph • Is it appropriate to talk about literature today? • Vladimir Sorokin reads his story "The Beetle": • On literature and music during the war • Departure for Berlin and the ban on authors in Russia • Will there be a fairy tale with a happy ending? About good premonitions • About an article in the Süddeutsche Zeitung: the war of the future with the past • "Putinversteinism" and the phenomenon of the cultural bubble • Can language be great? • "We will pay for this war with language and literature" • "The last two decades are years of total lies" • Is it possible to remain silent? • About the group "Automatic Satisfiers" • "Doctor Garin" and a prophetic gaze • What February 24th meant for the writer • Putin and destruction • Literature in modern Russia • What do Soviet and Putin's Russia have in common? • How did this turn of events become possible? • The virus of war ideology. Is there a vaccine? • Unanswered questions: the end History and the Role of China • Hard and Soft "Literary Drugs" • What does Berlin mean to him? The meeting took place in Berlin on April 29, 2022