O tele dushi. Novye rasskazy - Ulitskaia Liudmila

Biologist by education and writer by vocation, in the new book "On the Body of the Soul" Lyudmila Ulitskaya explores the body and soul without dividing them, and the heroes of the stories describes in the limit when the boundary between reality and non-existence is blurred." We know much more about the body than we do about the soul. No one can draw an atlas of the soul. Only the border space can sometimes be caught. There, near this border, as we approach it, such vibrations begin, such subtle details are revealed, about which it is almost impossible to speak in our beautiful but limited language. Risky, very dangerous approach. But the more you live, the stronger you are." Lyudmila UlitskayaLiving life, we constantly meet with borders - internal, external, conditional, real. Boundaries "expand," "wear off," "overcome," "require respect for themselves," some we set, others - denote states, society or traditions. It is the philosophical and humanistic understanding of this concept that occupies Street. In the stories of the series "Girlfriends" the key motive, the engine of the narrative is love, perhaps the main weapon, sweeping the boundaries between people. Through love physical and blood, late, unexpected, gradual, sympathetic heroes find the missing part of the soul, the power necessary for life. In the second cycle of "On the Body of the Soul" Lyudmila Ulitskaya approaches the most intimate border - the boundary of life, or rather physical existence. Is there a line between life and death? Or is death the boundary of life? And what is there, beyond the bounds of physical existence? Lyudmila Ulitskaya finds her heroes in those crucial moments of their lives, when the body and the soul are almost inseparable.