Hunger / Condition. Ageev S., Rakhaeva Yu.

The book by literary critic and publicist Alesandr Ageev (1956–2008) includes articles published between 2000 and 2004 in the online project Russkiy Zhurnal. It contains 103 columns from the "Hunger" section and 12 texts published in Russkiy Zhurnal after its closure. Ageev found a synthetic genre for himself that naturally combined "life and literature" (criticism and journalism). This is an author's column. In the 2000s, he wrote columns for the newspapers Vremya MN and Gazeta, as well as for Russkiy Zhurnal, the magazines Profil and Znamya, and the online newspaper Vzglyad. A hard-hitting critic who preferred sharp polemics, he made many enemies among colleagues and writers. "Ageev was the most striking critic of his (our) generation" (Andrei Nemzer).