Linguists who came from the cold. Buraz M.M.

The thaw in science began, without waiting for the XX Congress and exposure of the personality cult. In linguistics, completely fantastic and at the same time strict ideas appeared: mathematical linguistics, machine translation, semiotics. From this variety, a new science has grown - structural linguistics. Vyach. Sun. Ivanov, Vladimir Uspensky, Igor Melchuk and other structuralists created departments and laboratories, argued about science and country at conferences, kitchens and campaigns, told the truth at meetings and signed collective letters - and became real heroes of their time. Maria Buras interprets from witty, funny, tragic words of witnesses and participants in the history of the era and science in the genre “Linguistics.doc.”

“The linguist says. The Association with the film is not accidental: in this book the august persons of our linguistics are said. Now it’s strange to even think that I knew some of them (and, thank God, I know) personally. Andrei Anatolyevich Zaliznyak checked my conclusions regarding the Novgorod localization of one Old Russian text. Discussion of the problems of the modern language with Maxim Anisimovich Kronhaus still keeps me from a nervous breakdown.

Maria Buraz created a wonderful book. This is the story of science in faces, by and large - a story in general. Giving a telling of the great linguists, the publication is intended for a wide range of linguists of the small ones, which are all of us. ”

Evgeny Vodolazkin

“ The book is necessary, very timely - and fascinating. Everyone lies like eyewitnesses, but the skillful installation of unreliable evidence gives a polyphonic effect. Being one of the heroes of the book, I recalled Shklovsky, who felt like a living fox in a fur store on Belomorkanal.

Alexander Zholkovsky