© The New Europe Journal -- Kira Tatyanina, May, 17, 2007

Vladimir Matskevich. A defiant silence – Moscow, “Variant”, 2006. – 240 pages.

“Categorical thinking – is not so simple as it might seem at the first glance!”
Public Wisdom
Transcendence is transcended towards someone who transcends – this is a real event of parenthood in trans-substantiality.
A joke

“Inescapable loneliness” – is such a beautiful word-expression. This is a tragic condition. Since people are not the God, they are doomed to live in the society, generality, public life and relationships between each other. Vladimir Matskevich tells about loneliness, and critics in their turn echo his “inescapable loneliness”. About total misunderstanding of surrounding people, Matskevich knows as well. The state of loneliness – is wonderful, when it is already outlived and assigned. After an unbearable discomfort, which you could not avoid 24 hours a day, you suddenly feel a firm ground under your feet and a small island is completely enough for you. There you can live and consider it to be your own territory, protect it, but at the same time leave the boundaries open. It is necessary for understanding, for an establishment of new contacts, for coactivity, and at last for individual activity, which will be, however, perceived and understood by someone else. Otherwise the loneliness will be unbearable.