Poetic Gift as A Spiritual Disequilibrium Edouard Manet’s “Portrait of Stephane Mallarme” (1876) Manet’s painting didn’t offer a comfortable seat to Mallarme’s inspiration. His posture is rather restless – he is not sitting/not lying, and his reclining/non-reclining body is in un-decided position (is he falling back or getting up?). He is here, in front of [...]

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Why Botero’s Satire on Conformist Clergy Takes the Ultimate Form of Ontological Criticism? Fernando Botero, “Reclining Priest”, 1977 The priest’s fatness and his bodily closeness to the soil immediately engulf the viewers’ attention. His heavy shoes and massive feet belong to a person whose soul has no wings – they belong to a heavy physical [...]

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“Survival” As War-making – When Fight For “Survival” Intensifies, Human Soul Dies The only meaningful way of relating to the stories of Primo Levi, Imre Kertesz’ novel “Fatelessness”, Shalamov’s “Kolyma Tales” or Herta Muller’s novels and short stories from totalitarian Romania is to read them as testimonies of a total collapse of human conduct and [...]

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Transcendent Eroticism and Existential Spirituality In Tsvetaeva’s Erotic Poems One of the most linguistically original among the Russian poets, Tsvetaeva has an exceptional ability to realize her visceral vision of the reality through new lexical combinations and semantic clashes and juxtapositions. The world migration started in the darkness: It’s trees stroll along night earth, It’s [...]

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Global Corporations and Wall Street Money-dealers Are the Unconditional Authorities In the 21st Century US As the Communist Party Was In Soviet Russia The matter here is who is in charge of the government. In Soviet Russia (SRussia) to be in command meant to give orders and punish those who don’t follow. But in US [...]

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