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Pri pervoĭ vstreche s Elinek - sodrogaeshʹsi͡a, potom - ėtoĭ vstrechi zhdeshʹ, i nakonet͡s tebe stanovitsi͡a prosto neobkhodimo uslyshatʹ ee zhestkiĭ, no spravedlivyĭ prigovor. Elinek bukvalʹno prepariruet nashu deĭstvitelʹnostʹ, i delaet ėto stolʹ izoshchrenno, chto vynuzhdaet priznatʹ to, chego tak by khotelosʹ ne zamechatʹ. Vovse ne sama priroda i ee sovershenstvo stali temoĭ ėtoĭ knigi, a te "delovye li͡udi", kotorye unichtozhai͡ut prirodu radi svoeĭ vygody. Imenno protiv nikh napravila Elinek vse bogatstvo svoego i͡azyka, polnogo i͡azvitelʹnoĭ, mozhno skazatʹ dazhe i͡adovitoĭ sipy. Pozhaluĭ, ėto ataka na nekui͡u koalit͡sii͡u, sushchestvui͡ushchui͡u seĭchas mezhdu tak nazyvaemymi "zashchitnikami lesov" i temi, kto v deĭstvitelʹnosti ėtimi lesami vladeet. Ėto proizvedenie otni͡udʹ ne miloe khudozhestvennoe rukodelie, nichego ne pribavli͡ai͡ushchee i ne ubavli͡ai͡ushchee. V nem odno perekhodit v drugoe i vse svi͡azano so vsem. Ėto mekhanizm chelovecheskoĭ zhizni. "Elinek v pri͡amom smysle khudozhnik slova, master dosele nevidannogo masshtaba. Ee i͡azykovye fantazii potri͡asai͡ut. V sravnenii s Elinek mnogie ee kollegi-pisatelʹnit͡sy vygli͡adi͡at naivnymi institutkami. " Neue Zurcher Zeitung.

When you first meet Jelinek, you shudder, then you wait for this meeting, and finally you just need to hear her harsh but fair verdict. Jelinek literally dissects our reality, and he does it so subtly that he forces us to admit what we would like to ignore. It is not nature itself and its perfection that have become the topic of this book, but those "business people" who destroy nature for their own benefit. It was against them that Jelinek directed all the wealth of her language, full of sarcastic, one might even say venomous vulgarity. Perhaps this is an attack on a kind of coalition that exists now between the so-called "defenders of forests" and those who actually own these forests. This work is by no means a cute artistic needlework that adds nothing and does not subtract anything. In it, one thing turns into another and everything is connected to everything. This is the mechanism of human life. "Jelinek is literally an artist of the word, a master of a hitherto unprecedented scale. Her linguistic fantasies are amazing. Compared to Jelinek, many of her fellow writers look like naive college girls. " Neue Zurcher Zeitung.