Тюрьма и другие радости жизни: очерки и стихи

Opyt nesvobody, obretennyĭ za shestʹ let kolonii strogogo rezhima, byvshiĭ ministr, uchenyĭ-ėkonomist Alekseĭ Uli͡ukaev popytalsi͡a peredatʹ v svoeĭ novoĭ knige i analiticheskoĭ prozoĭ, i liricheskim stikhom. Razgovor idet ob odnom i tom zhe, no - na dvukh i͡azykakh. Poėt: "Tri ravno vazhnye vershiny / Vne postizhenii͡a uma /Vladei͡ut mysli͡ami moimi: /Li͡ubovʹ, Rossii͡a i ti͡urʹma". Ocherkist: "Esli sravnitʹ "Zapiski iz Mertvogo doma" Dostoevskogo (ti͡uremnai͡a realʹnostʹ serediny 19 veka), Arkhipelag GULAG" Solzhenit͡syna (ti͡uremnai͡a realʹnostʹ serediny 20 veka) i sovremennui͡u ti͡uremnui͡u realʹnostʹ, to my uvidim ochenʹ mnogo obshchego". I snova poėt-o tom zhe: "I dogadaeshʹsi͡a ne srazu, / Sumev, rasputyvai͡a nitʹ, / Bolʹ sevastopolʹskikh rasskazov / S kolymskimi soedinitʹ". Zhestkiĭ, chestnyĭ razgovor o tom, kak vyshlo, chto "strana, kotorai͡a sazhaet, / strana, kotorai͡a sidit" - ėto odna i ta zhe strana.

Alexey Ulyukaev, a former minister and academic economist, tried to convey the experience of unfreedom gained during six years in a high-security penal colony in his new book with both analytical prose and lyrical verse. The conversation is about the same thing, but in two languages. Poet: "Three equally important peaks / Beyond the comprehension of the mind /They own my thoughts: /Love, Russia and prison." Essayist: "If we compare Dostoevsky's Notes from the Dead House (the prison reality of the mid-19th century), Solzhenitsyn's GULAG Archipelago (the prison reality of the mid-20th century) and the modern prison reality, we will see a lot in common." And the poet is talking about the same thing again.: "And you won't guess right away, / Having managed, by untangling the thread, / To connect the pain of Sevastopol stories / With the Kolyma ones." A tough, honest conversation about how it turned out that "the country that plants / the country that sits" is the same country.