Зеркало (The Mirror)

'Zerkalo' - roman otrazheniy. Ego dvadtsat chetyre prelyudii i dvadtsat chetyre postlyudii obrazuyut tsikl vozvrashcheniy, v kotorom kazhdaya chast otklikayetsya na druguyu i preobrazhaet yeyo. Zdes tochnost muzykalnoy formy soedinyaetsya so svobodoy poeticheskogo myshleniya. Detstvo, mif, utrata i vnutrennyaya zhizn skladyvayutsya v edinoe razmyshlenie o pamyati, vremeni i o tom, chto ostayetsya, kogda stol mnogo utracheno.Eto filosofskiy roman o lyubvi, pamyati i vremeni, o mire kak o prostranstve otrazheniy, gde odno nepreryvno prostupaet v drugom. O tom, chto 'lyubov - vezde i vo vsem'. Tema 'zerkala' - skvoznaya, i eto derzhit vse tvorenie: 'Mir - eto tvoyo zerkalo. Zerkalo s dvoynym steklom. Na kazhduyu veshch mozhno smotret s raznykh storon, i kazhdyy raz ona otkroyetsya po-raznomu'. Volshebnoe zerkalo vremeni. 'Deti - tvortsy. Imenno poetomu vremya v detstve kazhetsya beskonechnym'. Dragotsennye kartiny detstva. Pervye uroki muzyki, kotorye dayet mama, pervye postizheniya zakonov garmonii. 'Gde dom moy? V zolotistom krae vospominaniy, v obiteli sveta i pechali - v priyute pamyati - v vechnom detstve'.Nichem, krome muzyki, ne ogranichennaya assotsiativnost myshleniya, sovershenno legkaya i svobodnaya peretasovka literaturnykh, mifologicheskikh i bibleyskikh personazhey (Don Kikhot i Satir, Adam i Eva, Maugli i Skitalets i t.d.). Prekrasnye i mudrye razmyshleniya o prityagatelnosti iskusstva pisma, ob ulovlenii budushchego, poskolku v nem est chitatel, ob etoy tayne. Eto kniga redkoy vnutrenney svobody i dukhovnoy yasnosti, v kotoroy detstvo, muzyka, mif i slovo skladyvayutsya v glubokoe znanie o cheloveke.- Vladimir GandelsmanOdni avtory idut ot zhivopisi, drugie - ot muzyki. Kniga Lery Auerbakh - simbioz bukvy s notoy. Yeyo opus magnum 'Zerkalo' dazhe trudno nazvat prozoy. Eto 'muzitsirovannyy' poeticheskiy opyt strannogo kharaktera: tonkaya, elegantnaya, vozdushnaya, no vpolne vnyatnaya vyaz slozhno perepletennykh motivov, roman vzrosleniya dlya solo-virtuoza.- Aleksandr Genis'Zerkalo' - roman, neobychnyy po zamyslu i po forme. Ego kompozitsiya, sostoyashchaya iz dvadtsati chetyrekh prelyudiy i dvadtsati chetyrekh postlyudiy, prevrashchaet samu formu v zerkalo, gde odna chast otrazhaet druguyu i pridayet yey novyy smysl. Auerbakh s isklyuchitelnoy virtuoznostyu soobshchaet proze tochnost postroeniya i tonkost nyuansirovki, obychno prisushchie muzyke. V tsentre etogo romana - detstvo i pamyat, ta ischezayushchaya materiya zhizni, kotoraya, vopreki utrate, prodolzhaet svetitsya v slove.- Solomon Volkov

-Lera Auerbach is a poet and writer whose work brings literature and music into a single artistic vision. Writing in both English and Russian, she has formed a body of work shaped by formal freedom and a voice unmistakably her own. Her writing returns to memory, time, loss, and the inward life with rare intensity and precision. In her work, the intimate opens into the vast, and personal experience becomes inseparable from the deeper continuities of culture and consciousness.