"I myself have become a Russian living abroad": Conversations Abroad on Exile and the Epistle

Zarubezhye — ponyatie ne tolko geograficheskoe ili politicheskoe, no i kulturnoe, eticheskoe, psikhologicheskoe. U zarubezhya svoi osi koordinat, traditsii, pravila povedeniya. Eto svoeobraznoe chistilishche, v kotorom emigrant, bezhenets, relokant proveryaet sebya na ekzistentsialnuyu prochnost.

Prichiny otyezda u kazhdogo svoi: otvrashchenie k poryadkam, slozhivshimsya v Rossii, ideynoe nesoglasie s voynoy i rezhimom. U ukraintsev prichiny gorazdo strashnee: bombezhki, gore, smert, prishedshie v ikh doma. No budushchee u vsekh skhodnoe: neobkhodimost postroit vtoruyu zhizn, sokhranit sebya i svoe slovo, nayti oporu v chuzhoy strane.

V etom sbornike govoryat te, kto sozdaet kulturny kod novoy Rossii za predelami ee granits: poety i khudozhniki, rezhissery i uchenye, aktery i perevodchiki. Ikh golosa skladyvayutsya v pestruyu, gorkuyu i pronzitelnuyu kartinu segodnyashnego russkogo zarubezhya, v kotorom rozhdaetsya prostranstvo svobody, dialoga i lichnoy otvetstvennosti.