ЯЗЫКИИЛЬ. Проза и подражания

Vnukam Tolstym bylo strogo zapreshcheno pisatʹ. Roditeli strashchali: "Ni-ni! S takoĭ familieĭ!" No zapretnyĭ plod sladok, i polvyvodka poshli "poka na filfak, a tam vidno budet". V moskovskom vuze Elena uchilasʹ germanistike, v ierusalimskoĭ aspiranture - slavistike, izdala bez schetu nauchnykh monografiĭ - o Chekhove, Turgeneve, Lʹve Tolstom, znamenitom i neschastlivom kritike Akime Volynskom, t͡selykh tri - o svoem dede Aleksee N. Tolstom, a posledni͡ui͡u - o chudesnoĭ, neizvestnoĭ pisatelʹnit͡se Nadezhde Bromleĭ. No kak tolʹko poi͡avilasʹ vozmozhnostʹ rasslabitʹsi͡a, poshla literaturnai͡a kontrabanda...V nastoi͡ashcheĭ knige predstavlena proza Eleny Tolstoĭ - tut i gody uchenii͡a, i gody stranstviĭ, a takzhe ri͡ad ėsse, ne tolʹko na literaturnye temy. V poslednee vremi͡a avtoru poli͡ubilsi͡a i podrazhatelʹnyĭ zhanr, v kotorom ispolneny dve novelly, voshedshie v ėtot sbornik.Soberem, chto ostalosʹ. Zapishem koe-kak po pami͡ati - vedʹ ne zapisheshʹ, tak i ukhnet s kont͡sami. Nakonet͡s, iz podruchnykh materialov soorudim nekoe podobie mira, kotorogo bolʹshe net. Mozhet bytʹ, klei͡a i strogai͡a, my chto-to vdrug v nem uvidim, chego ranʹshe ne zamechali, chto-to soobrazim, v chem-to razberemsi͡a?..

Tolstoy's grandchildren were strictly forbidden to write. My parents were scaring me: "No way! With that name!" But the forbidden fruit is sweet, and half the extract went "for now to the philology faculty, and then we'll see." Elena studied German studies at a Moscow university, Slavic studies at a graduate school in Jerusalem, and published countless scientific monographs on Chekhov, Turgenev, Leo Tolstoy, and the famous and unfortunate critic Akim Volynsky, as many as three on her grandfather Alexei N. Tolstoy, and the last one on the wonderful, unknown writer Nadezhda Bromley. But as soon as there was an opportunity to relax, literary contraband began...This book presents the prose of Elena Tolstoy — there are years of study and years of wandering, as well as a number of essays, not only on literary topics. Recently, the author has also fallen in love with the imitative genre, in which two short stories included in this collection are performed.Let's collect what's left. Let's write it down somehow from memory, because if you don't write it down, it'll just go away. Finally, from improvised materials, we will build a kind of world that no longer exists. Maybe the glue is strict, we'll suddenly see something in it that we hadn't noticed before, we'll figure something out, we'll figure something out?..