Кенсингтон, как давно это было

"Kensington, kak davno ėto bylo" - roman Mi͡uriėl Spark (1918-2006), priznannogo klassika angliĭskoĭ literatury XX veka. Vpolne schastlivai͡a, khoti͡a uzhe ne molodai͡a zhenshchina Agnes Khokinz, puteshestvui͡a s muzhem po Italii, postoi͡anno vozvrashchaetsi͡a mysli͡ami v dalëkiĭ 1954 god, k svoeĭ napolnennoĭ dramaticheskimi sobytii͡ami zhizni v Londone, v I͡Uzhnom Kensingtone: rabote v izdatelʹstve, dovedënnom bezumnym vladelʹt͡sem do polnogo krakha, upoënnoĭ borʹbe s bezdarnymi avtorami i, konechno zhe, borʹbe s sobstvennoĭ polnotoĭ (ret͡sept prost - mozhno estʹ i pitʹ vsë kak vsegda, tolʹko polovinu kazhdogo bli͡uda ostavli͡atʹ na tarelke). Agnes, togda molodai͡a vdova pogibshego na voĭne soldata, okazyvaetsi͡a vovlechënnoĭ v dramaticheskie sobytii͡a: eë sosedka po meblirovannym komnatam polʹskai͡a portnikha Vanda poluchaet anonimnye pisʹma s ugrozami, podvergaetsi͡a shantazhu i v kont͡se kont͡sov pogibaet. Ne prichasten li k eë gibeli bezdarnyĭ literator Gektor Bartlet, polʹzui͡ushchiĭsi͡a pokrovitelʹstvom izvestnoĭ pisatelʹnit͡sy?.. Mi͡uriėl Spark (1918-2006) - klassik angliĭskoĭ literatury. Znakomstvo s eë proizvedenii͡ami predusmotreno v Velikobritanii programmami sredneĭ i vyssheĭ shkoly, ona laureat literaturnykh premiĭ, v tom chisle premii Dėvida Koėna, udostoena pochëtnykh zvaniĭ i nagrad ri͡ada universitetov v Velikobritanii i za eë predelami. S 1963 goda Spark sostoi͡ala v Korolevskom literaturnom obshchestve, v 1967-m byla nagrazhdena ordenom Britanskoĭ imperii i v 1993-m vozvedena v ryt͡sarskoe dostoinstvo.

"Kensington, how long ago it was" is a novel by Muriel Spark (1918-2006), a recognized classic of twentieth-century English literature. Quite happy, although no longer a young woman, Agnes Hawkins, traveling with her husband in Italy, constantly returns her thoughts to the distant 1954, to her life filled with dramatic events in London, in South Kensington: work in a publishing house, driven by a mad owner to complete collapse, the intoxicated struggle with incompetent authors and, of course, the struggle with her own fullness (the recipe is simple — you can eat and drink everything as always, only leave half of each dish on the plate). Agnes, then the young widow of a soldier who died in the war, becomes involved in dramatic events: her roommate, the Polish dressmaker Wanda, receives anonymous threatening letters, is blackmailed, and eventually dies. Was the incompetent writer Hector Bartlet, who had the patronage of a famous writer, involved in her death?.. Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was a classic of English literature. Familiarity with her works is provided in the UK by secondary and higher school programs, she is the winner of literary prizes, including the David Cohen prize, and has been awarded honorary titles and awards by a number of universities in the UK and abroad. Since 1963, Spark has been a member of the Royal society of literature, was awarded the order of the British Empire in 1967, and was knighted in 1993.