The Instrument of Language: On People and Words
7 hrs. 41 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Eugene Vodolazkin
Author
Eugene Vodolazkin
Narrator
Nadezhda Vinokurova
Narrator
Nadezhda Vinokurova
Description
Yevgeny Vodolazkin is a philologist, author of works on Old Russian literature, and… a prose writer; a finalist of “The Big Book” and the Andrei Bely Prize for the novel “Solovyov and Larionov.” He lives in St. Petersburg.
The reaction of philologists to a fellow scholar who takes up literary creation is often similar to doctors’ reaction to a sick colleague: just yesterday he was standing by the operating table—and now he’s already lying down. Still, “to be at the same time an ichthyologist and a fish” is not only permissible, but also useful—which the book “The Tool of Language” proves. Short witty sketches from scientists’ lives, memories of people close to the author, essays and studies—something reminiscent of Pushkin’s “table-talk” and Yuri Olesha’s notes—reminds us that the boundary between a person and a text is not as firm as it may sometimes seem.
The reaction of philologists to a fellow scholar who takes up literary creation is often similar to doctors’ reaction to a sick colleague: just yesterday he was standing by the operating table—and now he’s already lying down. Still, “to be at the same time an ichthyologist and a fish” is not only permissible, but also useful—which the book “The Tool of Language” proves. Short witty sketches from scientists’ lives, memories of people close to the author, essays and studies—something reminiscent of Pushkin’s “table-talk” and Yuri Olesha’s notes—reminds us that the boundary between a person and a text is not as firm as it may sometimes seem.
00:23
00_00_Vodolazkin_Instrument yazyka
02:28
00_01_Ot avtora
02:32
00_02_Ot avtora
01:00
01_01_Obsluzhivaya grafa
01:41
01_02_Vivat academia
02:14
01_03_Slovo Andronikova
01:33
01_04_Trevozhnyy zvonok
02:47
01_05_Dva Aleksandra
04:43
01_06_Sumerki demokratii
01:35
01_07_Omnia mea mecum porto
06:55
01_08_1810 rubley
01:34
01_09_Protivopozharnoe
02:04
01_10_Podcherknuto vezhliv
02:13
01_11_O marksizme v egiptologii
01:03
01_12_Horoshee otnoshenie k kotam
05:27
01_13_Ryby v paradnom
01:07
01_14_Otets i syn
02:05
01_15_Peterburgskie zontiki
04:07
01_16_Maloy krovyu
00:43
01_17_Voprosy literatury
01:11
01_18_Anatomiya istorii
01:36
01_19_Vox populi
02:36
01_20_Gazovyy vopros
01:12
01_21_Mestoblyustitel
04:35
01_22_Mihaylo i Oleksa
02:25
01_23_Russkie zvuki
03:16
01_24_Iskusstvo i deystvitelnost
05:08
01_25_Bez prava na ulybku
06:35
01_26_Pravda o Shlimane
03:31
01_27_Rimskie kanikuly
04:44
01_28_Dvoynye standarty
04:57
01_29_Pristrastie k Brodelyu
01:03
01_30_Dikie lyudi
03:40
01_31_Zona turbulentnosti
03:16
01_32_Esli Rodina skazhet nano
08:56
01_33_Oshibka retsenzenta
03:53
01_34_Uchenye – stroitelyam
03:48
01_35_Podzemnyy mir
04:24
01_36_Vrednye privychki
06:02
01_37_Malo priyatnogo
02:03
01_38_Seans s razoblacheniem
00:32
01_39_Legkoe dyhanie
06:15
01_40_Literaturovedy v blokadu
19:59
02_01_Postizhenie svobody
08:52
02_02_Dobryy chelovek iz Peterburga
24:31
02_03_01_Epoha Lihacheva
23:56
02_03_02_Epoha Lihacheva
14:12
02_04_Lev Aleksandrovich
21:24
02_05_Kunstkamera v litsah
11:22
02_06_Moya babushka i koroleva Elizaveta
19:14
02_07_Protoierey Aleksandr Nechaev
19:54
02_08_Den rozhdeniya Koli
12:05
02_09_Instrument yazyka
20:56
03_01_Perechityvaya Unbegauna
13:11
03_02_Lyudi na svoem meste
19:07
03_03_Goskomabbreviatura
22:08
03_04_01_Trudnosti russkogo yazyka
21:55
03_04_02_Trudnosti russkogo yazyka
21:53
03_04_03_Trudnosti russkogo yazyka
09:33
03_05_Nuzhna li yazyku zaschita
22:52
03_06_My mezhdu realnostyu i mifom
