Readers’ sympathies on the side of the autobiographical book of Catherine Margolis

MOSCOW. The first results of the literary award "NOS" are known. The majority of readers’ votes on the results of online voting were given to the book “Footprints on the Water”.

The main results of the NOS Prize will be announced exactly in a week. But the winner of the readership award has already been determined. This is Ekaterina Margolis, whose book “Footprints on the Water” was included in the long list of the award, established by the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation.

The great-granddaughter of the outstanding Russian philosopher Gustav Shpet, who was shot in 1937 in the far-fetched and delusional case of anti-Soviet agitation, has long been living in Venice. Artist, writer, translator, teacher. He participates in the organization of exhibitions at which the works of seriously ill children are exhibited, and helps the Give Life Foundation. The book is illustrated with wonderful etchings by Margolis.

The polyphonic nature of the Traces gradually draws into the orbit of the autobiographical narration of the life history of other people. Relatives, friends, interlocutors, those who left a huge mark in life, living and departed. Love for Venice, from the first second that became native, despite the desperate unwillingness to go to the tourist Mecca. But to avoid what is destined is impossible. The ancient city gratefully opened for Margolis a different face, not a mask-carnival and song-gondola. The main gain was the opened gate in childhood, which returned his piercing sensations and warmth. Having left thousands of kilometers from Moscow and Peredelkin, she suddenly found a home where the joy of creativity is a logical continuation of the harmony of everyday life. Where a lot is seen more clearly and brighter than in the homeland, which Margolis does not forget.

Listening to the music of words, mounting fragments of memories and associations, you feel amazing involvement in a miracle and mystery, which you certainly want to solve.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru