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'Ėta kniga, - govorit Anna Narinskai͡a, - pochti polnostʹi͡u sostoit iz stateĭ, napisannykh za vremi͡a, proshedshee posle moeĭ ėmigrat͡sii iz Rossii. Iskli͡uchenie sostavli͡ai͡ut testy, posvi͡ashchennye moemu drugu, poėtu Grigorii͡u Dashevskomu - cheloveku, umevshemu otlichatʹ dobro ot zla. Za vremi͡a, proshedshee s ego smerti v 2013m, ėto redkoe kachestvo stala eshche bolee vazhnym, a otsutstvie Grishi - eshche bolee zii͡ai͡ushchim. Po bolʹsheĭ chasti ėto zhurnalistskie teksty, pytai͡ushchiesi͡a khotʹ kak to peresobratʹ cherepki, v kotorye prevratilisʹ moi͡a i mnogikh moikh druzeĭ (inogda i͡a osmelivai͡usʹ govoritʹ ne tolʹko za sebi͡a) kartina zhizni posle fevrali͡a 2022 goda. Oni napisany po raznym povodam i dli͡a raznykh izdaniĭ, no nekotorye temy i dazhe nekotorye illi͡ustrirui͡ushchie ikh primery i t͡sitaty povtori͡ai͡utsi͡a iz teksta v tekst". Ob ėtikh tekstakh, ėtikh t͡sitatakh i ėtikh li͡udi͡akh i poĭdet rechʹ na vechere, posvi͡ashchennom prezentat͡sii knigi.'U tekstov Anny Narinskoĭ i rabot Ivana Lungina estʹ ochevidnyĭ obshchiĭ znamenatelʹ: oni - pri͡amoe sledstvie 24 fevrali͡a 2022, bez rossiĭskogo vtorzhenii͡a v Ukrainu ikh ne bylo by ili oni byli by drugimi. No, iskhodi͡ashchie iz ėtoĭ obshchnosti, iz zony kollektivnogo otchai͡anii͡a i raspada, oni ne perestai͡ut issledovatʹ i (chto, mozhet bytʹ, eshche vazhnee) videtʹ i uznavatʹ. Udivitelʹno, chto i͡asnostʹ i beznadezhnostʹ mogut bytʹ eshche i t͡selebnymi; eshche udivitelʹneĭ - chto estʹ golosa, sposobnye skazatʹ bezumii͡u 'nichego podobnogo'. - Marii͡a Stepanova

"This book," says Anna Narinskaya, "consists almost entirely of articles written since my emigration from Russia. The exception is the tests dedicated to my friend, the poet Grigory Dashevsky, a man who knew how to distinguish good from evil. Since his death in 2013, this rare quality has become even more important, and Grisha's absence has become even more gaping. For the most part, these are journalistic texts trying to somehow reassemble the shards that my and many of my friends (sometimes I dare to speak not only for myself) have turned into a picture of life after February 2022. They were written on different occasions and for different publications, but some themes and even some illustrative examples and quotations are repeated from text to text." These texts, these quotes and these people will be discussed at the evening dedicated to the presentation of the book.'Anna Narinskaya's texts and Ivan Lungin's works have an obvious common denominator: they are a direct consequence of February 24, 2022, without the Russian invasion of Ukraine they would not have existed or they would have been different. But, coming from this community, from the zone of collective despair and disintegration, they do not cease to explore and (perhaps even more importantly) to see and recognize. It's amazing that clarity and hopelessness can also be healing; it's even more amazing that there are voices that can tell madness 'no such thing.' - Maria Stepanova