Быть мужчиной

Novai͡a kniga odnoĭ iz luchshikh sovremennykh angloi͡azychnykh pisatelʹnit͡s Nikolʹ Krauss ("Khroniki li͡ubvi", "V sumrachnom lesu") - sbornik rasskazov, kotoryĭ po mere chtenii͡a prevrashchaetsi͡a v edinoe proizvedenie. Ego geroi - muzhchiny i zhenshchiny, i͡unye i pozhilye, roditeli i deti - li͡udi, kotorykh chitatelʹ zastaet v povorotnye momenty ikh zhizni, kotorykh oni zhdali dolgie gody, poroĭ ne osoznavai͡a ėtogo. A vse samoe vazhnoe proiskhodit vo vzgli͡adakh, mimoletnykh zhestakh ili edva ulovimykh intonat͡sii͡akh. Teksty pereklikai͡utsi͡a, proti͡agivai͡ut drug drugu tonkie linii svi͡azeĭ, spletai͡a otdelʹnye istorii v edinoe povestvovanie: ob otnoshenii͡akh, ikh zarozhdenii i raspade, o pami͡ati, evreĭstve, vlasti, li͡ubvi, o ti͡azhesti proshlogo i poiskakh novogo opyta.

A new book by one of the best modern English—language writers Nicole Krauss ("Chronicles of Love", "In the Gloomy Forest") is a collection of short stories that turns into a single work as you read. His characters are men and women, young and old, parents and children — people whom the reader finds at turning points in their lives, for whom they have been waiting for many years, sometimes without realizing it. And all the most important things happen in looks, fleeting gestures or subtle intonations. The texts echo, stretch thin lines of connections to each other, weaving separate stories into a single narrative: about relationships, their origin and decay, about memory, Jewishness, power, love, about the severity of the past and the search for new experiences.