Vladimir Kernerman Eugene Kernerman

The Big Green Tent — we under it

Reflections and Comments

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Translator Eugene Kernerman

© Vladimir Kernerman, 2017

© Eugene Kernerman, 2017

© Eugene Kernerman, translation, 2017

This book of reflections present comments on the book by L. Ulitskaya — The Big Green Tent. The purpose of the commentary is to reveal the main idea of the novel — «What gives meaning to life, gives meaning to death». Comments lead the readers to the depths of author’s feelings and thoughts about time and about oneself. This is a fascinating journey «back to us as we were conceived», according to L. Ulitskaya. Bon voyage, dear readers.

ISBN 978-5-4485-8803-7

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Contents

1. The Big Green Tent — we under it
2. To The Reader
3. Part one
   1. I. “Those Wondrous School Years”
   2. Comments. 1
   3. II. “The New Teacher”
   4. Comments. 2
   5. III. “Children of the Underworld”
   6. Comments. 3
   7. IY. “The lors”
   8. Comments. 4
   9. V. “The Last Ball”
   10. Comments. 5
   11. VI. “The Big Green Tent”
   12. YII. “The Upper Register”
   13. Comments. 7

“To have time to realize who in God’s name we are.”

L. Ulitskaya, “Jacob’s Ladder”.

To The Reader

Hello, dear readers. Henceforth, I shall call you dear friends. For, firstly, you are friends: with whom else could I share personal reflections on the mind’s aspirations and soul searching of our beloved writer Ludmila Evgenevna Ulitskaya? I state, she is beloved, otherwise we would not be having now this conversation under the shelter provided by the Big Green Tent erected with such tenderness and empathy over our heads so vulnerable to life’s hurricanes. Secondly, my friends, I value your apparent acquiescence to undertake together a difficult voyage in search of life’s meaning, its inevitable conclusion and, possibly, its extension under the green canopy of the Universe.

There is no doubt that some of you have already made your own “journey” into the depths of the author’s compassionate mind and wise soul. But the reason for being of our collective journey is its openness: each of you can join the virtual conversation with other readers and with the author on the website for this book —

https://ridero.ru/books/pod_zelenym_shatrom/

You can each suggest your own interpretation for the existential and social issues raised by Ludmila Evgenevna in her novel and suggest your personal approach to their solutions.

Each of your reviews will be accepted and considered with gratitude. Thus, you will become co-creators of a new structure of our common thinking — the knowledge of the essence of love and mercy which were initially laid down for us by the Eternal Nature, by all-encompassing wisdom of the Creator, or by God, or by whichever force one considers to be possible.

Do you not think that this is where the purpose of our voyage lies? If so, let us proceed!

From this point forward the author’s text is given in quotes. All quotes originate from L. E. Ulitskaya, The Big Green Tent, (translated from the Russian by Polly Gannon) and extracted from – https://www.amazon.com/Big-Green-Tent-Novel/dp/0374166676

Part o