Евгений Чижов "Перевод с подстрочника". Литературный подкаст "Закладка". Выпуск 18

In the new episode of Echo's literary podcast "Bookmark," Ekaterina Shulman and Galina Yuzefovich discuss the novel "Translation from the Interlinear Translation" by Yevgeny Chizhov. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED, AND/OR SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT EKATERINA MIKHAYLOVNA SHULMAN, OR CONCERNING THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT EKATERINA MIKHAYLOVNA SHULMAN. TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 – Introduction 00:50 – Who is Yevgeny Chizhov? Why did his novel only become known after the author's death? 04:20 – Genre, Introduction, and Fantasy Elements 05:33 – Plot: A Moscow poet, Central Asia, and a meeting with the Great Leader 07:14 – Political Context: The Cult of Personality and the Post-War 10:06 – The Cult and Poetry of the Great Leader as an Ideology 11:33 – The Character Timur and Parallels with Vladislav Surkov 14:11 – The Protagonist: Cowardice, Doubts, "Mr. Nobody" 18:24 – The Allure of Power and Faith in the "Good Tsar" 20:12 – Diverse Opinions on the Leader and Key Scenes 21:05 – A Novel in the Logic of Colonial Discourse 27:20 – A Modern View of Colonialism and the Hero's Moral Instability 29:42 – Interlinear Translation, Poems, and the Author's Intent 31:09 – Dark The Charm of Autocracy 32:55 – Parallels with Generation P, The Petrovs with the Flu, and Zakhkhok 40:24 – Lack of Mysticism and Political Realism 42:33 – Zakhkhok, the Image of Tajikistan and the Hero's Fate 45:36 – Physiology of the Text: Heat, Sand, Food 48:38 – Summary: Allegory and the Helplessness of the White Man 50:11 – Moral Compass and the Starry Sky 52:11 – Recommendations: Daniel Mason's The Tuner 55:59 – Announcement of Madame Bovary and Lectures on Nabokov 57:24 – Thanks to the Idiot Store Watch the episode without a VPN with BistroVPN: https://vpnpay.io/ru/bistrovpn/ Become a sponsor and watch episodes of "Bookmarks" before anyone else: Patreon:   / prilichnyi-v-s-s-144144874   YouTube:    • Приличный человек влюбляется в диктатора |...   If you liked the episode, support the podcast with a donation: https://campsite.bio/echo_bookmark The transcript of the episode is now on the Echo website: https://echofm.online/programs/zakladka Is the website down? Always up-to-date links on the ECHO FM Telegram channel: https://t.me/echofm_online Listen on other platforms: https://pc.st/en/1743131343 Books mentioned in this episode: "The Sympathizer" by Viet Thanh Nguyen "The Captain's Daughter" by Alexander Pushkin "Waverley, or Sixty Years Ago" by Walter Scott "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad "Kim" by Rudyard Kipling "A Thousand and One Nights" "Generation P" by Viktor Pelevin "The Petrovs in and Around the Flu" by Alexey Salnikov "Zakhkhok" by Vladimir Medvedev "The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin" by Leonid Solovyov "Colophon" column: "The Tuner" by Daniel Mason In the next episode: "Madame" Bovary, Gustave Flaubert; Vladimir Nabokov's lecture on Flaubert