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Ulyanovsk. “A book is the life of our time, everyone needs it, both old and small,” once said the great thinker of the 19th century V. G. Belinsky.
MOSCOW. The new annual literary prize "Theatrical Novel", held the day before at the Bakhrushin Theater Museum, announced its heroes this year. According to the organizers, the goal of creating a new award is to popularize literature on the theater.
“Happy Days” is a two-act play by Samuel Barclay Beckett. Completed in 1961, the play centers on a woman inexplicably buried under mounds of earth who reminisces about better days. Beckett often uses trapped, paralyzed, or incomplete bodies to symbolize communication problems. He was an Irish playwright, stage director, novelist, and poet best known for both his pessimistic view of humanity and his darkly comic humor. Literary critics claim that he was one of the last modernist writers and a key figure in absurd fiction.The primary character, Winnie, is married to Willie. We never learn their surname. It is also unclear where the play takes place and what time period it is set in. All we know is that she is buried to her waist in mud. Winnie cannot move her legs or her feet. Beside her are a parasol and a black shopping bag, and behind her, Willie sleeps on obliviously. The whole atmosphere is deliberately absurd.A bell rings, symbolizing a new day. Following her typical morning ritual, Winnie brushes her teeth and washes her face. She has all the supplies that she needs in the black bag. Once she finishes cleaning herself, she complains because Willie is still sleeping. She envies him because he sleeps so soundly. She wishes she could get some rest, but she spends all day thinking about life instead.Winnie doesn’t like being stuck in the mud, but she knows that life could be worse. She practices being grateful for everything she has, including her toothbrush and soap. She enjoys the simple pleasures in life. On this day, she decides to spruce up her routine. She tries to read the label on the toothbrush handle, but she cannot make out the letters.Winnie gets Willie up. She gives him the toothbrush, but he can’t make out the writing, either. Winnie gives up and pulls out medicine from the bag. She drinks most of it but it is unclear why she is taking it or what medicine it is. She offers it to Willie, but he is too busy fussing over a cut on his head.Winnie isn’t interested in the cut. All she cares about is why Willie doesn’t have his clothes on yet. He sits in his underwear, reading a newspaper. Winnie stops fretting over him and instead gets on with her day. Her day consists of staring at nothing. Willie reads out important headlines from the newspaper. Apparently, a priest died in a bathtub, and it is the talk of the town.Winnie wonders why she bothered waking Willie up. He talks nonsense. She only woke him up because she can’t stand talking to herself. She hates being alone. She wishes that she could be content with her simple life, but deep down, she isn’t. She is frustrated and trapped in a life she didn’t ask for. Before she gets too depressed, she brushes her hair and her teeth.As the day wears on, Winnie notices something strange. She feels like she is sinking. She can’t breathe properly. She wonders if she is imagining things, or if she has put on weight overnight. Whatever the reason for the growing mound, all she cares about is whether she can still see Willie. Although he is behind her, his presence reassures her.Later, Winnie rummages through the bag again. She finds a small revolver. She remembers how Willie wanted to kill himself once. She stopped him, but she decides that it is now up to him whether he uses it. Willie doesn’t understand what she’s talking about, but he pretends to, nodding along. He goes back to sleep while Winnie sets up her parasol.In the meantime, the earth rises around Winnie. It now covers her breasts. She feels that her youth is gone and she is no longer a woman. Again, Willie doesn’t understand her ramblings and he goes back to reading his newspaper. He wishes that she would stop talking so he could get some peace and quiet.In retaliation, Winnie sings a song. Willie refuses to join in. Instead, he fusses over his own hole in the ground. Wanting to escape, he crawls forward. He tries to reach Winnie, but he is too frail now to crawl far. The earth mounds permanently separate them. Winnie assumes that she will die alone now. Even if she doesn’t die, she’s immobile and powerless in her old age.Willie stops talking. Winnie sinks deeper into her hole until the earth is around her neck. She is angry because Willie didn’t try very hard to rescue her. She is going nowhere now. She retreats into her memories. She remembers happy days when she and Willie danced together. Willie stops talking. When the play ends, they stare at each other in silence. It is deliberately unclear whether they are alive or dead, or what the silence means..
MOSCOW. The organizers of the annual competition in the field of literature for children and adolescents announced the start of a new season of the “New Children’s Book”, the event is supported by the Rosman Publishing House.
MOSCOW. The Fifth All-Russian competition for the best literary work for children "Kniguru" recently announced its winners.
MOSCOW. November 26 at the Central House of Artists on Krymsky Val starts the opening of the 16th International Non / fiction Intellectual Literature Fair. The largest international book forum will traditionally be marked by the presentation of novelties of extremely interesting non / fiction.
MADRID. On November 22, traditionally in the suburbs of Madrid, a ceremony was held to present the most authoritative literary prize, which only Hispanic writers are awarded.
BOGOTA. The award ceremony for the world’s first Garcia Marquez literature prize was held in the capital of Colombia, Bogota.
MOSCOW. Rare works of Russian literature are exhibited at the auction on November 20 and 21 in the "House of Antique Books on Nikitsky".
NOVOSIBIRSK. On November 20, the All-Russian Literary Festival "White Spot" begins its work. During two festival days, writers from all regions of Russia, as well as from Israel, Austria and Germany, will discuss the most pressing issues of literary creation.
MUNICH. The German prize "Dominant 2014" this year received a poet and philosopher from Russia - Konstantin Kedrov. The award ceremony was held at the Tolstoy Library in Munich.
MOSCOW. The State Theater Museum named after Bakhrushin approved a new literary award called "Theatrical Novel."
BELGOROD. The traditional annually held Days of Russian Literature in Belgorod Region, organized by the regional branch of the Union of Writers of Russia, municipal and state libraries of the region and the Department of Culture of the Belgorod Region, will be held from November 17 to 30 and will be dedicated to a number of significant cultural events of the country.
MOSCOW. Themed trains, whose wagons are decorated with poems, photographs and quotes from the works of great writers, have become a good tradition of the Moscow metro.
MOSCOW. The organizers of the Russian Literature International Literary Contest, which celebrates the outstanding works of writers published in Russian abroad, announced the composition of this year’s jury.