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Nov. 27th, 2003 11:28 pmif Stephen King had found himself in Stalinist Russia, he would undoubtedly have gotten the Stalin Prize.
King's award is not a surprise but a logical consequence of contemporary literary professionalism, which -- like socialist realism -- demands that a writer clench his teeth and write within the framework of the given norm or else end up, if not in a prison camp, then in his own personal ghetto of anonymity and poverty. The symbolic meaning of King's award is a Fall of the Literary Wall: a final unification, not of good and bad literature but of literature and trash.
Dubravka Ugresic
King's award is not a surprise but a logical consequence of contemporary literary professionalism, which -- like socialist realism -- demands that a writer clench his teeth and write within the framework of the given norm or else end up, if not in a prison camp, then in his own personal ghetto of anonymity and poverty. The symbolic meaning of King's award is a Fall of the Literary Wall: a final unification, not of good and bad literature but of literature and trash.
Dubravka Ugresic
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Date: 2003-11-28 03:22 am (UTC)хотя "Форсирование романа-реки" что-то сильно напоминает
и не одно )
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Date: 2003-11-28 03:27 am (UTC)Теперь прочитаю - хорошая цитата. 8)
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Date: 2003-11-30 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-30 05:55 am (UTC)Угрешич вот прошла мимо - надо восполнить 8)
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Date: 2003-11-30 06:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-30 06:57 am (UTC)Жаль журнал. Вот, получается, в "интересное время" снова случилась интересная литература - что бы там не плакали в то время об отсутствии.