List

The collection «List» brings together essays by Shamshad Abdullaev from the last two decades about literature, cinema, and painting. Reflecting on the poetry of Samuel Beckett and Paul Celan, the cinema of Alain Resnais and Atom Egoyan, the figures of Alexander Goldstein and Vasily Kondratiev, Abdullaev develops a way of reading that he himself calls «the linguistic adventure of a solitary imagination». His texts — are not so much essays in the traditional sense, but temperamental lyrical monologues that convey in the very structure of speech a unique experience of participation, a passionate co-being with the infinity of world culture from Antiquity to the Arab East, from Sufis to Italian hermeticists.