Зачем вы, мастера культуры? О русской литературе и искусстве

Zachem sushchestvuet literatura? Kakovo prednaznachenie Mastera? I kogo mozhno nazvatʹ masterom, a kogo vezhlivyĭ chelovek nagradit mnogoznachitelʹnym molchaniem? Pochemu rossiĭskai͡a kulʹtura vse tridt͡satʹ postsovetskikh let podvergaetsi͡a pogromu? Kak sozdavalasʹ i rabotaet sistema liberalʹnoĭ diktatury v kulʹturnoĭ zhizni nasheĭ strany?Razmyshlenii͡a zhivogo klassika russkoĭ literatury I͡Urii͡a Poli͡akova o proshlom, nastoi͡ashchem i budushchem otechestvennykh literatury i iskusstva.

Why does literature exist? What is the Master's purpose? And who can be called a master, and who will a polite person reward with meaningful silence? Why has Russian culture been subjected to pogrom for the entire thirty post-Soviet years? How was the system of liberal dictatorship created and operated in the cultural life of our country?Reflections of the living classic of Russian literature Yuri Polyakov on the past, present and future of Russian literature and art.