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What to do at home Lyudmila Ulitskaya
We are all in a very unique situation right now. The scale of the epidemic, uncertainty of forecasts, forced restrictions. All this is frightening, annoying, and sometimes angry.
New circumstances challenge us to define new meanings for ourselves. Habitual concerns of yesterday now seem ridiculous and unworthy of attention.
Against this background, the thoughts of the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya are relevant. How to tune in to the positiveWhy we should all change our habits.
What to do during the quarantine Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a Russian writer, translator and screenwriter, author of the books “Green tent”, “Merry funeral”, “Kukotsky Case”.
She is a laureate of the Russian Booker and Big Book awards, an officer of the Legion of Honor and a knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
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? The soul body? Lyudmila Ulitskaya › @shubinabooks › About what: this is a new collection of small prose › Oh, how rarely do I come across interesting collections of small prose (stories). And how nice that my piggy bank of worthy stories was replenished with the book of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, one of my favorite contemporary Russian authors! Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a master not only of small prose, but also a master of novels. How beautiful she writes! And how different: it weaves a delicate web of beautiful weightless words and phrases, very subtle and exquisite. And then suddenly so sharply, abruptly, sweepingly, rudely... Almost the entire collection was read in one breath, well, maybe two stories I did not quite understand, not impressed ... What I like is Ulitskaya - soulful, always very, very soulful! Touching, sad, fun, sad, dreary, hopeful: it reflects the whole palette of human emotions and feelings. And most importantly, all this without tears ... And although I am skeptical of stories, this is the rare occasion when I will put a book on the shelf and remember, looking at it, about the beautiful beautiful phrase of the author. For those who do not like modern Russian literature, I advise you to discover Ulitskaya. Her family saga “Medea and her children”, which takes place in the Crimea, will not leave you indifferent. Tell me, are you reading Ulitskaya? Which book do you like the most? ую #Russification with @madina_bookaholic
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The order of the mayor of the capital on new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus and the self-isolation of people over 65 years old Lyudmila Evgenyevna met with understanding, irritation or indignation does not feel: I have a close friend who lives in Milan, and they are several steps ahead of us in this story with the pandemic, so I know how hard it is for them now and what mortality there.
Therefore, I think Sobyanin’s order is absolutely reasonable and correct. Although it will be quite difficult: we are accustomed to go out, and walk, and communicate. But apparently there is such a cruel need now, and this need will force us to change our everyday habits.”
“What we are experiencing now is the challenge of our time, but it is no more terrifying than the challenges faced by our parents and our grandfathers. We need courage and some proportionality, intellectual proportionality, says Ulitskaya.
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Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya in an interview with Zoe Svetova: I think that March 2020 was a line beyond which a new era begins. The conditional “golden age” is over. The pandemic, according to scientists, within a year will be defeated. However, its consequences are still completely unpredictable. I am neither an economist nor a political scientist, and my predictions are worthless, they are merely the considerations of someone who has some knowledge of anthropology, especially cultural anthropology. Undoubtedly, the world after overcoming this line, which draws this pandemic, will be different. It is possible that we will continue to live as our parents lived, making ends meet, standing in lines for potatoes and milk, patching clothes and socks. I don’t see this situation as apocalyptic right now, but it can turn out any way you want. The world will undoubtedly change, at least simply because we have been shown the fragility of our well-fed world, and whether it will become worse or better after this important event depends on ourselves. #Street #coronavirus #epidemic
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“We must understand that today’s inconvenience, the great inconvenience of life, is incommensurable with the amount of misery, misery, hunger, the deaths of very close people, children and parents that have fallen to others. Therefore, this historical perspective is extremely important. It is important for us to behave no worse than our parents, who went through much more difficult times.”
The writer admitted that her house accumulated a huge amount of work, which she kept putting off: Today I dismantled three shelves on the shelf, it took half the morning, because there are photos, letters. Everything was piled up.”
“I think deep cleaning is actually useful because it puts us in order internally, because when you clean the room around you, you’re doing some work with cleaning inside yourself.”
Quarantine is really a great reason to shake off the dust and winter grayness from your home. Get rid of the trash. And our checklist will help to carry out the general cleaning strictly according to plan, will make it really high-quality and effective.
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How to answer the question, why go to a meeting with a writer? After all, it seems that there are books in which he said what he should have said; there is a text, and the author himself ... Well, the author... Bart has already said everything about the author. A human author is so, out of curiosity to look at a celebrity, an optional addendum to his monumental creations. Well, if Dostoevsky were alive there, Tolstoy, you could look at the famous beards, ask him to write an autograph with his pen, make a selfie to boast that he saw it with his own eyes. And then you meet Lyudmila Evgenyevna and you realize that you are in touch with something otherworldly, you feel some frequencies, vibrations of another, higher order. “Energy” is probably not the right word. It is like a physical sensation, a touch of talent, the proverbial “gift of God.” You hear her voice, low, soft, as if the priestess of some ancient cult, Cassandra, was broadcasting her prophecies. And then she stretches out her hand and says, "Lucia." And now she is no longer a priestess, but an unusually charming, friendly, smiling Lucia, openly talking over a cigarette about her life, about her husbands, children, friends. And the trembling of God’s formidable and majestic gift goes away, and you plunge into the comfort of homemaking, into her soft humor, intelligent heat-tamp conversation. Probably all those who were lucky enough to come to the meeting with Ulitskaya, felt her extraordinary dual power. By the way, not everyone was lucky – and in Hamburg and Berlin there was a full house, people called, wrote, cried, threatened, pressed on pity, gave bribes. And this is understandable, because Lyudmila Evgenyevna very rarely participates in such meetings. Probably, because it is being put to the fullest: not a single book remained unsigned, not a single question she did not leave, answered as honestly and fully as possible. There are no words to express our gratitude for these two days! Lyudmila Evgenyevna, our dear and beloved Lucia, thank you! You are amazing, and how happy we are that we managed not only to read your books, but also to meet with you and touch with the tip of our finger the mystery of creativity... #lectorylaurus #lauruslectorium #stlitskaya
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In addition, Ulitskaya told about the books that she is going to read during the quarantine. These are poems by Nikolai Zabolotsky, “Yo. Memoirs” by Sergei Eisenstein, “Golden Life” by Vsevolod Zaderatsky. According to her, the time has come for thoughtful reading, which is never enough time for those who are used to reading on the way to work.
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Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya will again meet with Yekaterinburgers at the Festival “Words and Music of Freedom” on November 24. On our website you can read an interview with her, as well as watch a video of a creative evening at the Yeltsin Center. People of my generation and my circle read a lot. As we read, we haven’t read anywhere in the world. We lived in the days of samizdat and tamizdat, when you were given a book for one night, and it suddenly turned your mind. Not necessarily Orwell, but simply books by good authors that have never been translated into Russian. There was historical and philosophical literature. I was an ordinary Moscow girl. Reading literature influenced me a lot. It was hard reading, with immersion, with overcoming myself. Then, when all this literature appeared in the bookstores, I was flipping through the books and didn’t realize what was so difficult about them. But it's from a height of age. Difficult reading fed us. If I am asked about the characteristics of my generation, it was this reading. The attitude towards the book was amazing. Nobody reads like that now... On November 24, the meeting with Lyudmila Ulitskaya will take place at 16:00 in the atrium. "How much does freedom cost?" Monologue about dissidents Julia Daniel and Natalia Gorbanevskaya, communication with the public, answers to questions. You can buy a ticket for the talk program for both days (1000 rubles), or a ticket for the whole program (meetings + concerts) for November 24 (1800 rubles). Tickets and a full program with a schedule of performances - by the link in the fixed current stories (highlights) or by the link in the section "Afisha" on the website. #concertsEkb #Yekateriburg #YeltsinCenter #Ulitskaya
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“I think that each of us has this stock of unfulfilled tasks, unfulfilled tasks, unfulfilled tasks postponed for years. Now is the time to dedicate time to this excavation and cleaning in every way. Each of us has something to clean inside and outside.”
Because of the cholera quarantine in Moscow 190 years ago, the poet Alexander Pushkin stayed for three months in the family estate. This made Boldin autumn the most productive period in his work. Maybe we will be able to find advantages for ourselves in the current situation and benefit from it, no matter what?
New circumstances challenge us to define new meanings for ourselves. Habitual concerns of yesterday now seem ridiculous and unworthy of attention.
Against this background, the thoughts of the writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya are relevant. How to tune in to the positiveWhy we should all change our habits.
What to do during the quarantine Lyudmila Evgenyevna Ulitskaya is a Russian writer, translator and screenwriter, author of the books “Green tent”, “Merry funeral”, “Kukotsky Case”.
She is a laureate of the Russian Booker and Big Book awards, an officer of the Legion of Honor and a knight of the French Order of Arts and Letters.
View this post on Instagram
? The soul body? Lyudmila Ulitskaya › @shubinabooks › About what: this is a new collection of small prose › Oh, how rarely do I come across interesting collections of small prose (stories). And how nice that my piggy bank of worthy stories was replenished with the book of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, one of my favorite contemporary Russian authors! Lyudmila Ulitskaya is a master not only of small prose, but also a master of novels. How beautiful she writes! And how different: it weaves a delicate web of beautiful weightless words and phrases, very subtle and exquisite. And then suddenly so sharply, abruptly, sweepingly, rudely... Almost the entire collection was read in one breath, well, maybe two stories I did not quite understand, not impressed ... What I like is Ulitskaya - soulful, always very, very soulful! Touching, sad, fun, sad, dreary, hopeful: it reflects the whole palette of human emotions and feelings. And most importantly, all this without tears ... And although I am skeptical of stories, this is the rare occasion when I will put a book on the shelf and remember, looking at it, about the beautiful beautiful phrase of the author. For those who do not like modern Russian literature, I advise you to discover Ulitskaya. Her family saga “Medea and her children”, which takes place in the Crimea, will not leave you indifferent. Tell me, are you reading Ulitskaya? Which book do you like the most? ую #Russification with @madina_bookaholic
A post shared by Reader's Diary? (@bookinist.ka) on Mar 20, 2020 at 3:19am PDT
The order of the mayor of the capital on new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus and the self-isolation of people over 65 years old Lyudmila Evgenyevna met with understanding, irritation or indignation does not feel: I have a close friend who lives in Milan, and they are several steps ahead of us in this story with the pandemic, so I know how hard it is for them now and what mortality there.
Therefore, I think Sobyanin’s order is absolutely reasonable and correct. Although it will be quite difficult: we are accustomed to go out, and walk, and communicate. But apparently there is such a cruel need now, and this need will force us to change our everyday habits.”
“What we are experiencing now is the challenge of our time, but it is no more terrifying than the challenges faced by our parents and our grandfathers. We need courage and some proportionality, intellectual proportionality, says Ulitskaya.
View this post on Instagram
Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya in an interview with Zoe Svetova: I think that March 2020 was a line beyond which a new era begins. The conditional “golden age” is over. The pandemic, according to scientists, within a year will be defeated. However, its consequences are still completely unpredictable. I am neither an economist nor a political scientist, and my predictions are worthless, they are merely the considerations of someone who has some knowledge of anthropology, especially cultural anthropology. Undoubtedly, the world after overcoming this line, which draws this pandemic, will be different. It is possible that we will continue to live as our parents lived, making ends meet, standing in lines for potatoes and milk, patching clothes and socks. I don’t see this situation as apocalyptic right now, but it can turn out any way you want. The world will undoubtedly change, at least simply because we have been shown the fragility of our well-fed world, and whether it will become worse or better after this important event depends on ourselves. #Street #coronavirus #epidemic
A post shared by Nikolai Podosokorsky (@podosokorsky) on Mar 16, 2020 at 5:13am PDT
“We must understand that today’s inconvenience, the great inconvenience of life, is incommensurable with the amount of misery, misery, hunger, the deaths of very close people, children and parents that have fallen to others. Therefore, this historical perspective is extremely important. It is important for us to behave no worse than our parents, who went through much more difficult times.”
The writer admitted that her house accumulated a huge amount of work, which she kept putting off: Today I dismantled three shelves on the shelf, it took half the morning, because there are photos, letters. Everything was piled up.”
“I think deep cleaning is actually useful because it puts us in order internally, because when you clean the room around you, you’re doing some work with cleaning inside yourself.”
Quarantine is really a great reason to shake off the dust and winter grayness from your home. Get rid of the trash. And our checklist will help to carry out the general cleaning strictly according to plan, will make it really high-quality and effective.
View this post on Instagram
How to answer the question, why go to a meeting with a writer? After all, it seems that there are books in which he said what he should have said; there is a text, and the author himself ... Well, the author... Bart has already said everything about the author. A human author is so, out of curiosity to look at a celebrity, an optional addendum to his monumental creations. Well, if Dostoevsky were alive there, Tolstoy, you could look at the famous beards, ask him to write an autograph with his pen, make a selfie to boast that he saw it with his own eyes. And then you meet Lyudmila Evgenyevna and you realize that you are in touch with something otherworldly, you feel some frequencies, vibrations of another, higher order. “Energy” is probably not the right word. It is like a physical sensation, a touch of talent, the proverbial “gift of God.” You hear her voice, low, soft, as if the priestess of some ancient cult, Cassandra, was broadcasting her prophecies. And then she stretches out her hand and says, "Lucia." And now she is no longer a priestess, but an unusually charming, friendly, smiling Lucia, openly talking over a cigarette about her life, about her husbands, children, friends. And the trembling of God’s formidable and majestic gift goes away, and you plunge into the comfort of homemaking, into her soft humor, intelligent heat-tamp conversation. Probably all those who were lucky enough to come to the meeting with Ulitskaya, felt her extraordinary dual power. By the way, not everyone was lucky – and in Hamburg and Berlin there was a full house, people called, wrote, cried, threatened, pressed on pity, gave bribes. And this is understandable, because Lyudmila Evgenyevna very rarely participates in such meetings. Probably, because it is being put to the fullest: not a single book remained unsigned, not a single question she did not leave, answered as honestly and fully as possible. There are no words to express our gratitude for these two days! Lyudmila Evgenyevna, our dear and beloved Lucia, thank you! You are amazing, and how happy we are that we managed not only to read your books, but also to meet with you and touch with the tip of our finger the mystery of creativity... #lectorylaurus #lauruslectorium #stlitskaya
A post shared by Laurus (@lauruslectorium) on Jan 19, 2020 at 3:09am PST
In addition, Ulitskaya told about the books that she is going to read during the quarantine. These are poems by Nikolai Zabolotsky, “Yo. Memoirs” by Sergei Eisenstein, “Golden Life” by Vsevolod Zaderatsky. According to her, the time has come for thoughtful reading, which is never enough time for those who are used to reading on the way to work.
View this post on Instagram
Writer Lyudmila Ulitskaya will again meet with Yekaterinburgers at the Festival “Words and Music of Freedom” on November 24. On our website you can read an interview with her, as well as watch a video of a creative evening at the Yeltsin Center. People of my generation and my circle read a lot. As we read, we haven’t read anywhere in the world. We lived in the days of samizdat and tamizdat, when you were given a book for one night, and it suddenly turned your mind. Not necessarily Orwell, but simply books by good authors that have never been translated into Russian. There was historical and philosophical literature. I was an ordinary Moscow girl. Reading literature influenced me a lot. It was hard reading, with immersion, with overcoming myself. Then, when all this literature appeared in the bookstores, I was flipping through the books and didn’t realize what was so difficult about them. But it's from a height of age. Difficult reading fed us. If I am asked about the characteristics of my generation, it was this reading. The attitude towards the book was amazing. Nobody reads like that now... On November 24, the meeting with Lyudmila Ulitskaya will take place at 16:00 in the atrium. "How much does freedom cost?" Monologue about dissidents Julia Daniel and Natalia Gorbanevskaya, communication with the public, answers to questions. You can buy a ticket for the talk program for both days (1000 rubles), or a ticket for the whole program (meetings + concerts) for November 24 (1800 rubles). Tickets and a full program with a schedule of performances - by the link in the fixed current stories (highlights) or by the link in the section "Afisha" on the website. #concertsEkb #Yekateriburg #YeltsinCenter #Ulitskaya
A post shared by Presidential Center B. Yeltsin (@yeltsincenter) on Nov 3, 2019 at 10:51pm PST
“I think that each of us has this stock of unfulfilled tasks, unfulfilled tasks, unfulfilled tasks postponed for years. Now is the time to dedicate time to this excavation and cleaning in every way. Each of us has something to clean inside and outside.”
Because of the cholera quarantine in Moscow 190 years ago, the poet Alexander Pushkin stayed for three months in the family estate. This made Boldin autumn the most productive period in his work. Maybe we will be able to find advantages for ourselves in the current situation and benefit from it, no matter what?
