The 55th issue of the literary and art journal "Zerkalo" has been officially published.

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6/17/20

The literary and art journal "Zerkalo" (The Mirror) has been published in Tel Aviv since 1991, under the continuous leadership of its editor-in-chief, Irina Vrubel-Golubkina.

The publication is indisputably a unique phenomenon within the Russian-language literary landscape outside of Russia, recognized by all with an interest in the literary avant-garde. Published biannually, "Zerkalo" offers its readers poetry, prose, and essays, alongside materials dedicated to the theory and practice of avant-garde art and literature.

Despite certain delays caused by the global pandemic, the 55th anniversary issue of the journal has been published with the support of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress.

The issue opens with poetry selections by Alexander Skidan, Oksana Vasyakina, Andrey Cherkasov, Kuzma Koblov, and Valery Ledenev. The "New Prose" section features Vitaly Derevyashkin’s subversive novella "Nine Days in My Mind" and Aliks Fuks’s novella "To the Other Side of the Ring Road," which contrasts Japanese and European cultures.

This issue also concludes Irina Golstein's novel "Contours of the Impossible," which chronicles the life of Alexander Golstein—a prominent Israeli Russian-language writer, Baku native, and leading contributor to the "Vesti" newspaper.

The "Book Chapters" section features excerpts from the unfinished book "Glaring" by the highly original writer Valery Eisenberg. Conceived as the final installment of a triptych, it succeeds the novels "The Tenant" (2014) and "The Scent" (2017). Regrettably, the author was unable to complete the work; Valery Eisenberg passed away in January 2019 in Tel Aviv, where he resided in his final years. The chapters published in "Zerkalo" depict the lives of Russian bohemian circles and emigrés in New York.

A chapter from Olga Medvedkova's forthcoming novel "Yvonne" transports the reader into Europe's distant past. The concluding section, "Accent," features Konstantin Rubakhin’s article "Mammonotheism: From Humanism to Transhumanism" and Evgeny Soshkin’s study "Russian Modernism and Paleofantasy," which explores the intersections of these two literary phenomena.