In a voluminous anthology, people of different generations remember their fathers: 92-year-old Daniil Granin, 68-year-old Alexander Kabakov, 36-year-old Zakhar Prilepin. And different activities: ballerina Ilze Liepa, coach Tatiana Tarasova, director Denis Evstigneev, surgeon Leonid Roshal.
1. meet the past. In a voluminous anthology, people of different generations remember their fathers: 92-year-old Daniil Granin, 68-year-old Alexander Kabakov, 36-year-old Zakhar Prilepin. And different activities: ballerina Ilze Liepa, coach Tatiana Tarasova, director Denis Evstigneev, surgeon Leonid Roshal. So many sons and daughters experiences have been united under one cover that some of them will inevitably seem familiar. Also because the relationship of any child to the father goes through common points — admiration, jealousy, an attempt to find a common language, a posthumous dialogue. A meeting with their father will still be a meeting with ours, with our family and the country too, the recent history of which, from the 50s to the 80s, hangs here in a thick suspension.
2. Check Freud. Reading this book inevitably brings back the memory of the concept of the Oedipus complex formulated by Freud, however, it also clarifies it — other girls fought with dad no worse than boys — Alena Doletskaya or Galina Volchek — and at the same time demonstrates its non-obviousness. Many sons did not fight their Oedipus at all, but rather eagerly learned from him, like Dmitry Krymov from Efros, or loved without trial or investigation, like Daniil Granin.
3. Read good prose. Good writers — Olga Slavnikova, Eduard Limonov, Yuri Mamleev, Sergey Shargunov — also talentedly wrote about their fathers, not just photographing reality, but creating a new one. So this album also contains several magnificent artistic portraits — a Soviet defense officer, a young Chekist who shot deserters, a famous priest, a former Suvorovite and a poet.
AST, ASTREL, 622 p.
Maya Kucherskaya