In the section “National cultures and national psychoses” there is an article by prose writer and mathematician Alexander Melikhov (1947) “Disposal of Chernobyl.” The author tries to formulate an international safety rule: “if somewhere a source of faith in a bright future is found, you must immediately cordon it off with international sanitary cordons - this is a source of infection, the color of which will certainly become clear in the near future, because to believe in some bright future, Only psychotics can achieve some kind of perfection in our tragic world...”

Foreign Literature, 2016 No. 08