People and holidays. Saints of culture. Genis A.

Alexander Genis (“Dovlatov and the surroundings”, “Return address”, “Kamasutra of the scribes”) turned to a new genre - a calendar, or “Saints of Culture”. He considers the birthdays of his favorite writers, artists, directors, as well as radio, Internet and iPhone personal holidays and inserts into the list of both generally accepted and bizarre celebrations.

Genis does not compete with Wikipedia and carefully avoids trivial , offering the reader a cursory, but original thought, an unexpected metaphor, an unmarried joke, revealing the essence of the definition. Gradually, a panel consists of a calendar mosaic, on which his features were reflected without the will of the author.

“The culture that this book worships does not save the world. But she protects those who cannot live without her. Keeping this layer, she forms a worldwide, multilingual and anachronical brotherhood of the spirit, which anyone who wants to join, "so as not to disappear alone".

Alexander Genis