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silent_glukСнова среда, и с нами очередная осенняя фотография 2012 года.
Осень - это не только красивые листья, но и всякие плоды. Вот, например, каштан... Красивый, блестящий.
Осень - это не только красивые листья, но и всякие плоды. Вот, например, каштан... Красивый, блестящий.
Think they should be obliged to READ a certain percentage, hmmmm?
Jul. 22nd, 2025 06:08 pmoursinPaging the ponceyness police, what?
In an age of constant scrolling, there is social capital to be gained by simply looking as if you are a cultured person who listens to music on vinyl and reads lots of books. And creating an aesthetically pleasing bookshelf is now easier than ever, thanks to an increase in booksellers who trade in “books by the metre”.
You know, I would be just slightly more sympathetic with people who are about The Aesthetic of BOOOX if they would ever demonstrate a touch of quirkiness and have shelves of (okay maybe nicely preserved copies) old Penguins? or those rather nifty little volumes of The Traveller's Library. Or just something that would suggest that this is more than just a step up from manifesting your Posh by having a lovely set of Heron Books Collectors Editions (bound in sumptious leatherette).
I think that if you're going to have Randomly Chosen For the Decorative Vibe books scattered about your pad, you should actually have to read at least some of them. And be able to respond to somebody asking about them without having to resort to whatever garbled wifflewoffle some AI engine serves up.
Okay, I am now meanly recalling the complete set of the works of Bulwer-Lytton in very good condition that lurked on a shelf in a bookshop I used to frequent. And also wondering as to whether there are collected editions of CP Snow's yawn-worthy 'Strangers and Brothers' sequence.
On the other hand, they might pick up something that they enjoyed and found engrossing, and develop the habit of reading. I would be there for that, in fact.
My own aesthetic is, the books have taken over, what do you mean, curated? maniacal laughter.
Любопытно...
Jul. 22nd, 2025 05:12 amsilent_glukА вот как вам кажется - Стругацких в "последнее время" ("последнее время" можно трактовать довольно широко) стали упоминать чаще, реже или как?.. Я имею в виду - вне связи с "медийными факторами" (очередными фильмами и т.д.). Вот раньше - где-то годы в 1990-е - их поминали довольно часто, в статьях на совершенно "левые" темы. А теперь? А как в вашем кругу общения?..
But why do they want to?
Jul. 21st, 2025 06:12 pmoursinBe respected literary novelists, that is?
Here be blokes going wah wah wah about the plight of the male novelist, lo, the voice of the Mybug B heard in the land, no?
Is this the death of the male novelist? The lonely life of a man writing fiction in 2025:
“Being a middle-aged white guy and working in this space today feels, to me, like what it must have felt to have been a poet at the end of the 20th century,” Niven tells me, laughing. “It’s a very niche, very recherché area, with a tiny audience. Men just don’t read fiction in anything like the same quantities they used to, and fewer of us, it seems, are writing it.”
You know, women are notably broader in their reading parameters? I'm not convinced by this argument:
He tells me a story about a friend – “with a big public profile” – who published his first novel a couple of years ago. “It was very good, but it was non-genre, and he’s a middle-aged white guy, so I did my best to manage his expectations.” The novel was turned down by every major publisher before eventually being picked up by a tiny independent. The book, once published, came and went, as so many do. “If it had been written by a woman, it would have sold six, seven times as many as it eventually did. But this is where we are today.”
Or maybe it just Wasn't All That?
And apparently at least one of the lairy 'scabrous, satirical, and vigorously male' novelists of the 90s who cannot catch a break these days:
["W]rites crime novels now. The last refuge of the scoundrel is the crime novel. And I get it! There’s a definable audience for crime fiction, but if you’re not writing genre fiction, then it’s difficult out there.”
Because the damselly laydeez never, ever dabble in the waters of crime or genre fiction....
Oh, wait.
I do wonder WHY they want to write SRS LTRY FIKSHUN??? is it all about the Kultural Kred? (Am currently reading Norma Clarke on Goldsmith and Grub Street, and how it was Not Gentlemanly to be a hack who wrote for filthy lucre, and the delicate balancing acts Georgian literary figures had to engage in.) And why are they all about being warty boys when they do so rather than being, oh, Henry James or Scott Fitzgerald or noted for their exquisite prose style? is it also about Macho Cred?
My own literary tastes among the Blokes of the Pen whose works you will tear from my cold dead hands have been discursed of here and they range widely. I can't help imagining several of them waxing satyrik about this lot.
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Любопытно...
Jul. 21st, 2025 04:32 amsilent_glukКак уже говорилось, тупая жаба заявилась пионеркой на игру про Ленинград 1947 года.
Оная тупая жаба выяснила, что то время и тех детей практически не представляет: про войну - читала, про "оттепель" - читала, а вот что было между?..
Нам дали список книг и фильмов, с которыми мы могли быть знакомы, но это в основном довоенное, это что мы читали/смотрели. А вот по каким книгам можно было бы составить представление о жизни в первые послевоенные годы, желательно - в крупном городе и желательно же - про "до-тинэйджеров" (лет 10-12)?.. А то кажется мне что ленинградский ребенок 1947 года все-таки отличался от Жени и Тимура... Третья часть "Васька Трубачева" - уже ближе, но все же рановато.
Оная тупая жаба выяснила, что то время и тех детей практически не представляет: про войну - читала, про "оттепель" - читала, а вот что было между?..
Нам дали список книг и фильмов, с которыми мы могли быть знакомы, но это в основном довоенное, это что мы читали/смотрели. А вот по каким книгам можно было бы составить представление о жизни в первые послевоенные годы, желательно - в крупном городе и желательно же - про "до-тинэйджеров" (лет 10-12)?.. А то кажется мне что ленинградский ребенок 1947 года все-таки отличался от Жени и Тимура... Третья часть "Васька Трубачева" - уже ближе, но все же рановато.
Culinary
Jul. 20th, 2025 07:44 pmoursinThis weeks bread: a loaf of Dove's Farm Organic Heritage Seeded Bread Flour, v nice.
Friday night supper: penne with bottled sliced artichoke hearts.
Saturday breakfast rolls: eclectic vanilla, strong white flour - perhaps just a little stodgy.
Today's lunch: kedgeree with smoked basa fillets - forgot the egg due to distractions and basa cooking rather more slowly than I had anticipated, still quite good - served with baked San Marzano tomatoes (we entirely repudiate the heretical inclusion of tomatoes in kedgeree but they are perfectly acceptable on the side), and a salad of little gem lettuces quartered and dressed with salt, ground black pepper, lime juice and avocado oil.
Любопытно...
Jul. 20th, 2025 04:00 amsilent_glukСкатерти исполнилось (уже какое-то время назад) 18 рядов, пошел 19. В принципе, в июле же 19 ряд должен и закончиться (и тогда можно будет вязать не по 3, а по 2 квадратика в день, т.е. по ряду в месяц, а не в 20 дней) - и мы над этим работаем.
А вот с нитками опять не сложилось... Я уж и не представляю, как и когда сложится.
А вот с нитками опять не сложилось... Я уж и не представляю, как и когда сложится.
Some v misc things
Jul. 19th, 2025 03:47 pmoursinThe Case of the Missing Romani American History:
The history of Romani Americans is missing. Although the experiences of other marginalized and immigrant American groups are now well-represented in mainstream historical scholarship, Romani Americans remain absent from American history. This absence has detrimental effects to Romani Americans who are placed outside historical time. It also harms scholars whose work could benefit from the placement of Romani people in the histories they tell.
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A ‘new Canterbury Tale’: George Smythe, Frederick Romilly and England’s ‘last political duel’:
In the early hours of 20 May 1852, six weeks before polling in that summer’s general election, two MPs travelled from London to woodland outside Weybridge in a bid to settle a quarrel provoked by the unravelling of electioneering arrangements in the double-member constituency of Canterbury. Frederick Romilly, the borough’s sitting Liberal MP, had issued a challenge to his Canterbury colleague George Smythe, whose political allegiances fluctuated and who had notoriously been embroiled in four previous prospective duels. The pair, accompanied by their seconds, who were also politicians, exchanged shots before departing unscathed. None of the participants faced prosecution but neither Smythe nor Romilly was re-elected.
A challenge to a duel was in fact by this time a common-law misdemeanour, and killing one's opponent counted as murder, though apparently there were few prosecutions in either case. It is perhaps disillusioning to the readers of romantic fiction to discover that politics seems to have figured so heavily as the casus belli.
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Do not foxes have the right to enjoy the facilities of the public library system? London library forced to briefly close after fox 'made itself comfortable' inside - this was a London library, rather than the London Library.
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Two entries in the People B Weird category:
Sylvanian Families' legal battle over TikTok drama:
Sylvanian Families has become embroiled in a legal battle with a TikTok creator who makes comedic videos of the children's toys in dark and debauched storylines. The fluffy creatures, launched in 1985, have become a childhood classic. But the Sylvanian Drama TikTok account sees them acting out adult sketches involving drink, drugs, cheating, violence and even murder.
(What next, Wombles porn?)
And
I'm 16 and live entirely like it's the 1940s (I bet he's not eating as though rationing is still in force, what?):
"I liked the clothing, how they dressed, and the style," Lincoln explained. "Just the elegance of how everyone was and acted... with the time of the war, everyone had to come together, everyone had to fight, and everyone had to survive together.
"Most people back then said it was scary, but it was quite fun to live then, and they could go out, help each other and apparently there's not that much stuff today that is similar to what that wartime experience was."
Lincoln said he loved the music of the time, including Henry Hall, Jack Payne and Ambrose & His Orchestra.
The teenager's wardrobe was also entirely made up of clothes from the era, which he said he preferred to modern-day clothes.
He even cycles on a 1939 bike when out and about researching and finding items for his collection.
We wish to know whether he gets woken up by a siren in the middle of the night to go and huddle in the nearest air-raid shelter. Singing 'Roll out the Barrel'.
День рождения
Jul. 19th, 2025 05:37 amsilent_glukСегодня день рождения Марии Ивановны Щипан (в девичестве Колпащиковой), моей несостоявшейся (потому что она умерла еще до того, как мы с Романом познакомились) свекрови. 1924.07.19-2003.03.16.
Знаю я о ней не так уж и много (хотя если разобрать бумаги, возможно, узнала бы и больше; да и фотография где-то там была) - только то, что помню из рассказов Романа.
Что с отцом Романа, Василием Щипаном, они познакомились в туберкулезном санатории - оба переболели туберкулезом, но вылечились. Что работала она, разойдясь с Василием, кажется, Александровичем и забрав с собой Романа, в сельской туберкулезной больнице. Что перед смертью долго болела (инсульт, как я понимаю), но Роман все надеялся на лучшее...
Характер, говорят, был у нее непростой - она и сама это понимала, поэтому говорила Роману, что, мол, когда решишь жениться - отправляй меня в дом престарелых. "К счастью" (а может, без кавычек?) судьба избавила Романа от проблемы лавирования между женой и матерью.
А Романа она спасла в свое время от спецшколы - его, как больного ДЦП, хотели туда направить, но Мария Ивановна полагала, что интеллект у него сохранный. Много занималась с ним, готовила к обычной школе - и в результате Романа туда взяли. И он учился с похвальными грамотами, и закончил ее всего с парой четверок в аттестате, кажется (остальное - пятерки). (А институт - так и вообще с красным дипломом.)
Недавно мне написала внучка двоюродной сестры Романа (Роман считал ее, двоюродную сестру, главой клана и все собирался меня свозить в гости - но мы так и не собрались: это в другой город надо было ехать) - Марии Ивановне она приходится... правнучка единокровного брата - это кто?.. И кем она приходится Роману? А мне? Да, так вот, эта внучка прислала мне начатки семейного древа Колпащиковых, чем весьма существенно меня продвинула в этом плане. Теперь бы собраться с... чем-нибудь... и внести данные.
Знаю я о ней не так уж и много (хотя если разобрать бумаги, возможно, узнала бы и больше; да и фотография где-то там была) - только то, что помню из рассказов Романа.
Что с отцом Романа, Василием Щипаном, они познакомились в туберкулезном санатории - оба переболели туберкулезом, но вылечились. Что работала она, разойдясь с Василием, кажется, Александровичем и забрав с собой Романа, в сельской туберкулезной больнице. Что перед смертью долго болела (инсульт, как я понимаю), но Роман все надеялся на лучшее...
Характер, говорят, был у нее непростой - она и сама это понимала, поэтому говорила Роману, что, мол, когда решишь жениться - отправляй меня в дом престарелых. "К счастью" (а может, без кавычек?) судьба избавила Романа от проблемы лавирования между женой и матерью.
А Романа она спасла в свое время от спецшколы - его, как больного ДЦП, хотели туда направить, но Мария Ивановна полагала, что интеллект у него сохранный. Много занималась с ним, готовила к обычной школе - и в результате Романа туда взяли. И он учился с похвальными грамотами, и закончил ее всего с парой четверок в аттестате, кажется (остальное - пятерки). (А институт - так и вообще с красным дипломом.)
Недавно мне написала внучка двоюродной сестры Романа (Роман считал ее, двоюродную сестру, главой клана и все собирался меня свозить в гости - но мы так и не собрались: это в другой город надо было ехать) - Марии Ивановне она приходится... правнучка единокровного брата - это кто?.. И кем она приходится Роману? А мне? Да, так вот, эта внучка прислала мне начатки семейного древа Колпащиковых, чем весьма существенно меня продвинула в этом плане. Теперь бы собраться с... чем-нибудь... и внести данные.
I'd heard about this, but good grief, it's actually in BLOOMSBURY!!!
Jul. 18th, 2025 04:41 pmoursinI don't know if anyone else has clocked this, which sounds like another of those vexatious cases brought by Christian homophobes, about the rainbow pedestrian - or as I was wont to call them in my youth, 'zebra' - crossings. The logic is, shall we say, convoluted.
Camden resident Blessing Olubanjo has told the local authority to get rid of the three blue, pink and white-painted pedestrian crossings... or else she would begin judicial review proceedings. She complained that the markings, installed in 2021 during Transgender Awareness Week, infringed her rights as a Christian and constituted “unlawful political messaging”. In a letter to the Town Hall, she said: “As a Christian and a taxpayer, I should not be made to feel excluded or marginalised by political symbols in public spaces.” Ms Olubanjo has been supported by Christian Legal Society, which has cited a section in the Local Government Act 1986 prohibiting councils from publishing material that appears to promote a political party or controversial viewpoint, and the crossings were a form of ‘publication’.
(Okay, it is part of the larger campaign which is about anti-trans actions and whingeing about not being allowed to
But where is this that she is protesting?
Why, in the very heart of Bloomsbury, and not just Any Old Bit of Bloomsbury ('living in squares, loving in triangles') but Marchmont Street.
Where we may find the iconic Gay's the Word bookshop as featured in the movie Pride (inaccurately described there as being in Soho) and a blue plaque for Kenneth Williams, and close by one for Boulton and Park.
Anyway Camden Council '“entirely rejects” her argument, and [said] that the borough has “no place for hate”' and the views of local people taken by The Local Democracy Reporting Service were very much on the side of leaving the crossings be.
Отчет
Jul. 18th, 2025 04:34 amsilent_glukИ снова наступила пятница, и снова безгранично благодарная вам всем за помощь и поддержку жаба пишет отчет.
Событий у нас не то чтобы много.
По медицинской части - без новостей, если не считать таковыми тот факт, что вчера мне пришла СМС, что, мол, у меня открыты направления на ЭКГ и к акушер(ке). Факт удивителен, потому что я ничего для этого не делала, даже у врача давно не была.
По бытовой части - отпраздновали Ка-Мышиный день рождения (походом в Исторический музей на выставку керамики; Ка-Мышь уже показывает у себя фотографии - https://ka-mysh.livejournal.com/1144849.html ); дождались горячей воды (какими мы нетерпеливыми стали!); оргзнеслась на игру (отступать некуда...) - и, собственно, все. Ни с кем не сговорились, никуда не записались...
По финансовой части - без новостей, на карточке 18.000, долг - 56.000, до пенсии недели 3-4.
Еще раз спасибо вам всем! Пока мы сидели без горячей воды, я все вспоминала, как, благодаря вам, мы завели в Кирове водонагреватель. Без него было бы гораздо хуже!
Событий у нас не то чтобы много.
По медицинской части - без новостей, если не считать таковыми тот факт, что вчера мне пришла СМС, что, мол, у меня открыты направления на ЭКГ и к акушер(ке). Факт удивителен, потому что я ничего для этого не делала, даже у врача давно не была.
По бытовой части - отпраздновали Ка-Мышиный день рождения (походом в Исторический музей на выставку керамики; Ка-Мышь уже показывает у себя фотографии - https://ka-mysh.livejournal.com/1144849.html ); дождались горячей воды (какими мы нетерпеливыми стали!); оргзнеслась на игру (отступать некуда...) - и, собственно, все. Ни с кем не сговорились, никуда не записались...
По финансовой части - без новостей, на карточке 18.000, долг - 56.000, до пенсии недели 3-4.
Еще раз спасибо вам всем! Пока мы сидели без горячей воды, я все вспоминала, как, благодаря вам, мы завели в Кирове водонагреватель. Без него было бы гораздо хуже!
Religion, boggling
Jul. 17th, 2025 05:04 pmoursin“They were lost to their passion and their lust” - it's actually Buddhist monks in Thailand, but this is not a scenario unknown in the annals of Christian monasticism in Europe, hmmmmm?
The disappearance of a respected monk from his Buddhist temple in central Bangkok has revealed a sex scandal that has rocked Thailand, with allegations of blackmail, lavish gifts and a string of dismissals raising questions about the money and power enjoyed by the country’s orange-robed clergy. Investigations into the whereabouts of senior monk Phra Thep Wachirapamok unexpectedly led police to a woman who the police suspect conducted intimate relationships with several senior monks, and then blackmailed them to keep the liaisons quiet.
I am somewhat boggled at this:
Monks in Thailand receive monthly food allowances of between 2,500-34,200 baht (£57-785), depending on their rank, but temples and monks also receive donations. The latter can prove especially lucrative for monks of higher stature, who might be given tens of thousands of baht, or even more, by wealthy individuals.
Though perhaps not, again reflecting on historical parallels.
But this is just Damn Weird:
A group of seminarians studying at Denver’s St. John Vianney Theological Seminary were taken on the trip in January 2024 by then-vice rector of the seminary, Fr. John Nepil, during which they were woken in the middle of the night and invited individually to swear a “blood oath” in a ceremony involving a dagger and a man in a yeti costume. During the bizarre ceremony, video of which was sent to The Pillar by multiple sources in the archdiocese, seminarians were told to scream as if in pain before returning with a bloodied cloth wrapped around their hand and their mouths taped shut, to a room where others waited for their turn to be brought in.
Bizarre, huh? This is described as 'a prank':
[T]he idea of this prank came from the man hosting the seminarians and the seminary staff on the ski trip, whom he confirmed was the person in the yeti costume. “This Catholic man is well known in the town and is regularly asked to appear at events in this costume,” Nepil said. “He has done this specific prank many times with family, friends, and other guests who stay at his ski cabin. At no time was there any risk of physical harm, but in hindsight, and even though the host wanted to do this, it should have never happened.”
But productive of massive upheaval and confusion, including the subsequent involvement of an exorcist.
(Is the yeti actually a fursona, we ask.)
День рождения
Jul. 17th, 2025 05:52 amsilent_glukСегодня день рождения Натана Давидовича Тамарченко (1940.07.17 - 2011.11.05).
(По материалам https://www.livelib.ru/author/102454-natan-tamarchenko ).
Натан Давидович был настолько добр, что согласился стать моим научным руководителем, хотя ни критика, ни фантастика не лежали в зоне его особых интересов (а теоретическая поэтика - в зоне моих, что, вообще-то, зря). И настолько настойчив, что таки допинал меня до защиты (и настолько понимающ, что - вместе с Диной Махмудовной Магомедовой и другими - протащил меня через нее, хотя то был не самый простой период в моей жизни...).
Я ему очень благодарна, и жаль, что я многого не смогла взять от общения с ним... (Ну а какой ему был прок от этой мороки - даже и представить не могу; проявление милосердия как оно есть.)
Закончил филологический факультет Саратовского университета в 1964. В 1973 защитил в ЛГПИ им. А.И. Герцена кандидатскую диссертацию ""Пиковая дама" Пушкина и "Преступление и наказание" Достоевского (о преемственности нравственно-философской проблематики и жанровой традиции)". В 1966-1987 гг. работал на литературоведческих кафедрах различных провинциальных вузов (в Пржевальске, Елабуге, Keмерово). С 1987 г. - в Mocкве: в Полиграфическом институте, в НИИ художественного воспитания АПН и, наконец, с 1991 г. - в Российском государственном гуманитарном университете (РГГУ). В 1990 защитил в ИМЛИ докторскую диссертацию "Реалистический тип романа (на материале классических образцов жанра в русской литературе XIX века)". Принимал участие в ряде международных конференций в Москве, Билефельде и Ольденбурге (Германия), в Taмпере (Финляндия), Гданьске и Кракове (Польша), в Будапеште, во Фрибурге (Швейцария) и во множестве различных конференций в провинциальных вузах России. Участвовал в работе специализированных Советов по присуждению ученых степеней по филологии, в редколлегии "Болдинских чтений".
Область научных интересов первоначально - русский реалистический роман и в этой связи - теория романа. Отсюда - монография "Русский классический роман ХIХ века. Проблемы поэтики и типологии жанра" (M., 1997; первое изд. - Kрaсноярск, 1988). Затем в центре внимания оказались проблемы преподавания литературы в школе. В результате появились - в соавторстве - 7 школьных учебников (1993-2000 гг.) и ряд публикаций теоретико-методического характера (программы, статьи). С конца 1970-х гг. работал над проблемами теории литературы в наследии Бахтина, в частности - над философскими основаниями "эстетики словесного творчества". Результат - ряд статей (вплоть до публикации в "Вопросах литературы" за 2008 г.), докладов и книга ""Эстетика словесного творчества" Бахтина и русская религиозная философия" (2001). Параллельно занимался исторической поэтикой сюжета, проблемой повествования, а также теорией и историей повести (книга "Русская повесть Серебряного века" - 2007) и некоторых других эпических жанров (авантюрно-исторический роман, детектив). Написал несколько глав в III томе академической "Теории литературы" (2004), посвященном родам и жанрам (одна из них - "Эпика"); руководил подготовкой коллективной монографии "Готическая традиция в русской литературе" (РГГУ, 2008). В последнее время обратился к изучению русской неканонической поэмы XIX-XX вв. Занимался также изучением соотношений и взаимосвязей прозы Пушкина, Тургенева, Л. Толстого, Достоевского, Чехова. В этом контексте наиболее значимая публикация - глава о "позднем" Толстом в книге "Русская литература рубежа веков" (ИМЛИ, 2001). Иногда писал и о драматургических текстах ("Гроза" Островского и некот. др.).
Все это сопровождалось работами учебно-методического характера: переизданием классического учебника по поэтике Б.В. Томашевского с предисловием Н.Д.Тамарченко и комментариями С.Н. Бройтмана, (1996, 1999, 2001 и др.), участием в учебнике "Введение в литературоведение" ("Высшая школа", несколько изданий), созданием серии учебных пособий - хрестоматий по теоретической поэтике и анализу прозаического художественного текста (изд-ва РГГУ и "Академия") и учебника "Теория литературы" (2004, 2007), а также исследованием терминологии современной поэтики, которое привело к участию в создании словаря "Поэтика" (2008) - в роли главного научного редактора и одного из авторов. Работал над учебником по теории литературных жанров. Всего около 400 публикаций.
Руководил аспирантами (16) и докторантами (5). Участвовал в разработке учебного плана историко-филологического факультета (создание системы теоретико-литературных дисциплин, включая занятия по анализу художественного текста и курсы по истории науки). Читал лекции по теоретической поэтике и (один год) по истории русского литературоведения, а также целый ряд спецкурсов (около 10); последний из них - о поэтике русской повести XIX-XX вв. Все годы работы в РГГУ вел практикум по анализу прозы. Самым важным для себя видом занятий считал спецсеминар "Поэтика русской классической прозы" с одновременным участием студентов 3-5 курсов и аспирантов.
Библиография:
О жанровой структуре "Преступления и наказания" // Роман Ф.М. Достоевского "Преступление и наказание" в литературной науке ХХ в. Хрестоматия. Ижевск, 1993. С. 126-147.
Спор о Боге и личности в эпоху утраченной простоты (о романе М. Берга "Вечный жид") // Новое литературное обозрение. 1995. № 11. С. 245-255.
Русский классический роман XIX века: Проблемы поэтики и типологии жанра. М.: Изд. РГГУ, 1997. 203 с.
"Капитанская дочка" Пушкина и жанр авантюрно-исторического романа // Russian Language Journal (Michigan State University). 1999. Vol. 53, nos. 174-176. P. 119-139.
Лев Толстой // Русская литература рубежа веков (1890-е - начало 1920-х годов). Кн. 1. М., 2000. С. 336-389.
"Эстетика словесного творчества" Бахтина и русская религиозная философия (пособие по спецкурсу). М.: РГГУ, 2001. 201 с.
Точка зрения персонажа и авторская позиция в реалистической драме "Гроза" А.Н. Островского // Русская трагедия: пьеса А.Н. Островского "Гроза" в русской критике и литературоведении. СПб.: Азбука-классика, 2002. С. 396-415.
Проблема рода и жанра в поэтике Гегеля. Методологические проблемы теории рода и жанра в поэтике ХХ века. Эпика // Теория литературы. Том III. Роды и жанры (основные проблемы в историческом освещении). М.: ИМЛИ, 2003. С. 33-63, 81-98, 219-244.
Роман и гротеск (о значении идей М.М. Бахтина для современной теории романа) // Изв. РАН. Серия лит. и яз. 2005. №6. С. 3-12.
Русская повесть Серебряного века. (Проблемы поэтики сюжета и жанра). Монография. М.: Intrada, 2007. 256 с.
Теория литературы: В 2 томах. Т. 1. Теория художественного дискурса. Теоретическая поэтика. М.: Академия, 2007 (Общ. ред.; Предисловие ко второму изданию, Введение; Ч. 2. Теоретическая поэтика).
Готическая традиция в русской литературе / Под ред. Н.Д. Тамарченко М., 2008. 346 с. (Предисловие - с. 9-13; разделы в главах о Пушкине - с. 57-67 в соавт. с В.Б. Зусевой; с. 67-78; о Достоевском - с. 199-212; о Чехове - в соавт. с А.А. Поляковой - с. 239-249; Заключение - с. 297-302).
М. Бахтин и П. Медведев: судьба "Введения в поэтику" // Вопросы литературы. Сентябрь-Октябрь 2008. С. 160-184.
Поэтика: Словарь актуальных терминов и понятий. М., 2008. (Редактирование. Предисловие. Около 70 статей).
(По материалам https://www.livelib.ru/author/102454-natan-tamarchenko ).
Натан Давидович был настолько добр, что согласился стать моим научным руководителем, хотя ни критика, ни фантастика не лежали в зоне его особых интересов (а теоретическая поэтика - в зоне моих, что, вообще-то, зря). И настолько настойчив, что таки допинал меня до защиты (и настолько понимающ, что - вместе с Диной Махмудовной Магомедовой и другими - протащил меня через нее, хотя то был не самый простой период в моей жизни...).
Я ему очень благодарна, и жаль, что я многого не смогла взять от общения с ним... (Ну а какой ему был прок от этой мороки - даже и представить не могу; проявление милосердия как оно есть.)
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C.J. Cherryh bibliography
Jul. 16th, 2025 04:34 pmcoffeeandinkSources: ISFDB, Wikipedia, my bookshelves
I collated this list for my Cherryh reread project. I didn't include magazine publications or omnibus editions, and only noted reprints where updated copyright dates or author's notes indicated substantial revision.
Italics = Probably not covering this in the reread.
( Cut for length )
The Very Slow C.J. Cherryh Reread
Jul. 14th, 2025 10:48 pmcoffeeandinkWelcome to the Very Slow C.J Cherryh Reread! I will be rereading C.J. Cherryh's work in order of publication and posting about it on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Subsequent posts will be all spoilers all the time, but for this overview, I will stick to generalities.
Cherryh is pronounced "Cherry", because that is her name; her first editor thought people would assume Carolyn Janice Cherry was a romance writer. (Her brother, sf artist David A. Cherry, was not subject to similar strictures.) Since the mid-70s, she has written 77 novels and four short story collections (1); self-published three journal collections (blog posts); edited seven anthologies; and translated four novels from the French. Her shared world fiction, not included in the aforementioned collections, must amount to at least another four or five novels' worth of word count.
I do not have a single good way to divide up Cherryh's oeuvre, so here, have a mishmash of setting, genre, and production history:
This isn't 100% a reread project. There are three books in the 2000s I've never read. I'll let you know when we get there.
I also expect Cherryh to have published more books by the time I finish, but let's be real, I'm going to read those as soon as they come out.
Currently I'm not planning to cover Cherryh's translations, her journals, or most of her shared world work. I'm not sure how I'll handle the Foreigner books, which suffer from diminishing returns; I may cover the first few and stop, I may skip around to only the volumes I find particularly interesting, I may bundle together multiple volumes in a single post.
I am going to cover the Lois and Clark tie-in novel, because I find it hilarious that Cherryh (a) wrote a contemporary novel; (b) wrote a tie-in novel; (c) wrote a Superman novel. (Her first short story ever, the Hugo Award winner "Cassandra", was also set in the then-present day, but I think that's it.)
1 This count includes the collaborations with Janet Morris and Jane Fancher, but excludes The Sword of Knowledge series, which was written entirely by her collaborators (Leslie Fish, Nancy Asire, and Mercedes Lackey) from Cherryh's outline. [back]
2 It's not clear from the text itself whether or not these books also fall under the Union-Alliance umbrella. Cherryh has sometimes said they do, but the humans in the Foreigner series are so isolated that the events of the Union-Alliance books have effectively no bearing on them. [back]
Cherryh is pronounced "Cherry", because that is her name; her first editor thought people would assume Carolyn Janice Cherry was a romance writer. (Her brother, sf artist David A. Cherry, was not subject to similar strictures.) Since the mid-70s, she has written 77 novels and four short story collections (1); self-published three journal collections (blog posts); edited seven anthologies; and translated four novels from the French. Her shared world fiction, not included in the aforementioned collections, must amount to at least another four or five novels' worth of word count.
Notes towards an overview
- It is so hard to know how to start talking about Cherryh's work. She is so foundational and yet so idiosyncratic and weird! She has a wide fanbase and has won three Hugos and been recognized with the Damon Knight Grand Master Award by the SFWA, and I, like many of her fans, am still convinced she is underappreciated. I blame a lot of this lack of recognition on sexism, though I think some of it is also due to the nature of her work. Cherryh belongs to what I think of, for lack of a better term, as Deep Genre: she makes almost no sense if you are not familiar with science fiction tropes and reading protocols. She is almost unimaginable as Baby's First Science Fiction, unless Baby has a heavy tolerance for getting thrown in the deep end and having to figure out oceanography and navigation pn the fly while also learning to swim by trial and error while also being shouted at by several different parties, some of whom are trying to rescue Baby and some of whom are trying to drown them, but good luck telling which is which. (This is, of course, my preferred mode of science fiction immersion, but it's impossible to say whether that is the cause of my deep love for Cherryh's writing or the result of my early exposure to it.)
- Cherryh is an extremely immersive writer, and famously an expert at extremely tight unremarked third-person focalization; she expects you to pick up hints and asides and put together information by implication, or, if you can't do that, at least to be absorbed enough by what you do understand that you just keep going anyway. To this day, I have almost no comprehension of the plot of a Cherryh novel until my second or third reading.
- Cherryh, more than almost any other sf writer, feels like she is writing history: her books don't cohere into a single grand narrative, but are each snapshots of different collisions between nature, nurture, chance individual encounters, and overwhelming social forces. Very frequently, conflicts are upended or balances of power shifted by the sudden intrusion of a player that was never mentioned before, or that got mentioned in a tossed-off subordinate clause in a passage focused on something else entirely, and it doesn't feel like a deus ex machina or an overcomplication; it feels like panning out of a zoomed-in map and realizing you should have been thinking about how those close-ups or insets fit into a bigger context all along.
- Cherryh writes so many different kinds of books—big anthropological novels told blockbuster-style with multiple POVs, with a Victorian devotion to including people across every sector of society and class; weird slender thought experiments about the nature of reality and the definition of humanity; and alien encounters, so many alien encounters, humans encountering aliens, humans encountering humans who might as well be aliens, humans and aliens encountering other aliens who make the "alienness" possible to other humans seem facile and trite. (I am very much looking forward to getting to the weird body horror of Voyager in the Night and the multi-way alien encounter extravaganza of the Chanur books.)
- I have heard Cherryh's prose style called dry; in a recent podcast Arkady Martine called it "transparent"; I remember Jo Walton once in a blog post saying it read like something translated out of an alien language. I personally love its distinctive rhythms and find it extremely chewy and dense, the very opposite of transparent; I think it gets a lot of its peculiar flavor from the deliberate deployment of archaic vocabulary—not words that have fallen out of use, but words where she relies on the older rather than the present connotations. Vocabulary and grammar become tools of estrangement; the style itself tells you that you are not reading something set in the present day and you cannot assume you understand the personal or social logic shaping this narrative by default.
Series and other groupings
I do not have a single good way to divide up Cherryh's oeuvre, so here, have a mishmash of setting, genre, and production history:
- The Union-Alliance universe
Most or all of Cherryh's science fiction takes place in a vast future history known as the Union-Alliance universe for two of its major political powers. Union-Alliance is less a series than a setting; most of the books grouped under it stand alone, or belong to short subseries (often later published in combined editions) that are independent of each other. Outside the subseries, the books can be read in any order, and publication order generally does not reflect internal chronology.
In this future history, habitable planets are rare; extrasolar colonies are initially space stations built out of slower-than-light transports sent from star to star. After FTL (dependent on sketchily explained "jump points") is developed and new (though still rare) Earthlike exoplanets are settled, trade is dependent on family-owned and operated Merchanter ships, each one in effect its own independent small nation.
The books themselves vary widely in focus: some depict an enclosed society, a ship or a space station or a single, sparsely populated planet; some encompass vast spreads of space or time and major historical events. Cherryh has a welcome tendency to produce books whose characters all share a common background and then to go on to write others from the perspective of the other three or four sides of any given conflict. (Conflicts in Cherryh seldom boil down to as few as two sides.)
Although author timelines and republished edition front matter puts all the sf Cherryh produced in the twentieth century into this background, when people speak casually of the Union-Alliance books they often mean the subset of books clustered around the time period of the Company Wars, when Earth is attempting to exert control over its extrasolar colonies. (None of the books take place on Earth; only two take place in the solar system. Probably one of the clearest signs that Cherryh is American is that her sympathy defaults to the colonies attempting to break away.) - The atevi series
In the atevi series (also known as the Foreigner sequence, for the first novel in it), a lost human ship settles on a world already inhabited by an intelligent native species called atevi.
The humans and atevi get along great for around twenty years, which is when the humans find themselves in the midst of a catastrophic war they don't understand how they started. The surviving humans are displaced to a single large island, with a peace treaty that declares no humans will set foot on the mainland except the official interpreter.
The series takes place a few hundred years later and focuses on the latest official interpreter, whose job duties are soon to expand drastically and include cross-planetary adventures and fun poisoned teatimes with local grand dames.
This series has been the bulk of Cherryh's work since the mid-nineties. It is twenty-two volumes and still ongoing. Unlike the (other?) (2) Union-Alliance books, these form a single continuous narrative; by the late teens, they are more or less a roman fleuve. Cherryh initially breaks down the longer series into sets of three, possibly with the hope each new trilogy could serve as a new entrypoint, but this pattern is abandoned after the first fifteen books. She does still valiantly attempt to summarize the important points of the previous books within text, but in my opinion this straight-up does not work. You really do need to read these books in chronological order for them to make sense.
The series is popular and well-beloved and has been cited as a major influence by both Ann Leckie and Arkady Martine, and I nevertheless blame it in part for Cherryh's failure to receive the attention and respect she deserves. Long ongoing serials do not tend to receive as many award nominations or reviews as work that requires less background reading, not helped in this case by the weakness of the latest books. The atevi books have always been less dense than Cherryh's earlier work, but in the past decade they have sometimes narrowed down to an excruciating microfocus. (I am especially cranky about Book 19, which takes place over a single weekend and is entirely concerned with the logistics of securing a hotel room from infiltration or attack.) - Fantasies
Cherryh's fantasies are all traditional medievalish works, most of them very Tolkien influenced. The majority of them are in ahistorical, vaguely Celtic settings (the Ealdwood books, Faery in Shadow/Faery Moon, the Fortress series, possibly Goblin Mirror); one trilogy is set in land-of-Fable Tsarist Russia; one magicless standalone is set in a kind of China-Japan analogue that feels a lot less Orientalist than that combination should because of the determined lack of ornament and exoticization (YMMV).
Like her science fiction, Cherryh's fantasy tends to feature protagonists who are terrified, desperate, paranoid, and in desperate need of a bath and a good night's sleep. Also like her science fiction, somehow or other her fantasy invariably ends up being about thought control and social conditioning and infinite regresses of self-conscious thought. - Shared-world work
The eighties saw an explosion in shared-world fantasy, something like professional fanfiction and something like the work of television writers' rooms: groups of writers would collaborate on stories set in a background they developed together. One of the earliest and most influential was the Thieves' World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, set in a sword & sorcery venue most notable for its exponential urban deterioration with each volume, grimdark avant la lettre. Cherryh was a frequent contributor, her stories featuring a particular set of down-on-their-luck mercenaries, street kids gone hedge magicians, and the extremely powerful vampirelike sorceress Ischade. This series set the pattern for her most significant later shared world works, both in terms of her frequent collaboration with Abbey and writer Janet Morris and in the tendency to treat each story more as a chapter in an ongoing serial than as a complete episode in itself.
For Janet Morris' Heroes in Hell anthologies, set in a Riverworld-inspired afterworld where everybody in all of recorded history seemed to be in the underworld, Cherryh relied on her college major and Master's degree in Classics to write about Julius Caesar and associated historical figures, producing nine or ten short storie; some of the short fiction was incorporated into the two novel collaborations with Morris and Cherryh's solo Heroes in Helll novel. The world-building and general theology are frankly a mess, but I would still 100% go for a historical novel of the Roman Republic or early empire if Cherryh felt like writing one.
Cherryh launched her own shared world series, Merovingen Nights,with the solo novel, Angel with a Sword, and then edited seven subsequent anthologies. She described several of the anthologies as "mosaic novels", and they do indeed show an unusual amount of close coordination and interdependence among the stories penned by different authors. Despite the novel title, the series is science fiction, set on an isolated planet in the Union-Alliance universe. Neither novel nor anthologies were reprinted during DAW's early 2000s phase of repackaging most of the older work Cherryh originally published with them, which is a great shame; they are very solid.
Full disclosure
This isn't 100% a reread project. There are three books in the 2000s I've never read. I'll let you know when we get there.
I also expect Cherryh to have published more books by the time I finish, but let's be real, I'm going to read those as soon as they come out.
Currently I'm not planning to cover Cherryh's translations, her journals, or most of her shared world work. I'm not sure how I'll handle the Foreigner books, which suffer from diminishing returns; I may cover the first few and stop, I may skip around to only the volumes I find particularly interesting, I may bundle together multiple volumes in a single post.
I am going to cover the Lois and Clark tie-in novel, because I find it hilarious that Cherryh (a) wrote a contemporary novel; (b) wrote a tie-in novel; (c) wrote a Superman novel. (Her first short story ever, the Hugo Award winner "Cassandra", was also set in the then-present day, but I think that's it.)
Other Cherryh reading projects
- The single tag for Jo Walton's Cherryh rereads has been lost to the Reactor Magazine reorganization, but you can find them pretty easily by going to the oldest Cherryh reviews on the site and reading forward
- Ian Sales' SF Mistressworks project has multiple Cherryh reviews by multiple reviewers
- The Three Hoarsemen podcast, The Works of C.J. Cherryh
- sholio's Read All the Cherryh tag
- james_davis_nicoll is reading a Cherryh a month for 2025; to find his earlier Cherryh reviews, use a keyword search
Endnotes
1 This count includes the collaborations with Janet Morris and Jane Fancher, but excludes The Sword of Knowledge series, which was written entirely by her collaborators (Leslie Fish, Nancy Asire, and Mercedes Lackey) from Cherryh's outline. [back]
2 It's not clear from the text itself whether or not these books also fall under the Union-Alliance umbrella. Cherryh has sometimes said they do, but the humans in the Foreigner series are so isolated that the events of the Union-Alliance books have effectively no bearing on them. [back]