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Who and what this episode is about:
Alexander Genis — a prominent Russian writer, 1970s emigrant, co-author with Pyotr Vail and author of the book "Dovlatov and his Environs" which has gone through six editions — is the hero of the new episode of "Tell Gordeeva". We discuss the phantom pains of empire and the nonlinear nature of time, as well as about different types of emigration and ways to survive it.
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Contents:
0:00 "Parrots escaped from the store, it's an emigrant story"
3:37 "On September 11, I stood here and saw the twin towers burning"
4:24 "Nothing scarier than what's happening in Ukraine has ever happened in my life"
5:20 "Being a Kyivan is a profession"
6:58 "It's not true that a person who reads Dickens is less likely to kill another person"
10:03 Advertisement about how we can meet
13:08 "In 13 years of fascism, emigrants wrote 100 books"
14:36 "Brodsky didn't argue, he snorted"
15:47 "I thought freedom to speak and read what you want would create a new person who wouldn't become a scoundrel"
18:16 "When Russia loses a war, it benefits from it"
19:14 "Brodsky said everything would change in Russia when they publish Platonov"
21:40 "Baltic people are afraid of Russians"
22:51 What are Canadian geese doing in New York?
24:24 "I dreamed of seeing 15 Bruegel paintings in Vienna" — how 1970s emigrants left the USSR
26:02 "We were leaving forever. It was a second death"
28:36 "Russians are the most successful migrants"
29:49 What's Sergei Dovlatov's secret
32:16 "I never felt American"
33:56 Why did Brodsky start writing in English?
35:12 "I can understand emigrants who won't teach their children Russian"
37:48 Genis's son read 1046 books in 10 years in prison
38:39 "Russia is a European country"
40:27 "I hate when they capitalize Motherland"
42:09 "Empire cannot exist without an idea"
44:50 Did Brodsky, Dovlatov, Baryshnikov and others want to return to Russia?
47:26 "Limonov had a portrait of Dzerzhinsky and a tuxedo for the Nobel Prize ceremony in his apartment"
49:23 "They hate Limonov in Yugoslavia"
51:00 "Solzhenitsyn was like Brezhnev, only the opposite"
55:22 "She grabbed the portrait and saved my life" — how Genis met Mayakovsky's daughter
56:30 "You need to read 'Dead Souls' to understand Russia"
58:40 "Time is discontinuous" — about the book "Knitwear"
1:01:25 "Everything I learned at school was nonsense"
1:03:31 "Collective creativity is the greatest joy" — about "New American" newspaper
1:05:31 Why is it important for two billion people to write on Facebook (banned in RF)?
1:07:47 "He tries to imitate energy by complicating the narrative" — about Pelevin's new novel
1:11:45 "Can you publish books in Russia? What about in fascist Germany?"
1:13:15 "I believe in collective responsibility"
1:14:09 "I would like to talk to Dovlatov so he could know who he became"
1:15:04 "I thought more about death in childhood"
1:15:55 "I believe life in Russia will change"
1:19:20 "My biggest fear is surviving after a nuclear bomb"
1:21:04 "Russia doesn't have first-class freedom"
1:24:37 Ancient passions in Ukraine
1:27:00 P.S. The wind has changed
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