Ulo Sooster In "ARTISTIC»
for some time Sooster was perhaps not the most frequent visitors CAFE
Text: Lev Smirnov
Letter Asarkana on January 24, 1961
The letter contains two layers of information. One - is an act which condemned wrote AA.: That the recipient is poorly done with Olya. Another layer - is vaguely show through conflict relations with Olya most AA, to which the (conflict) the recipient has nothing to do. On the decoding of this content is great reason is mentioned in a letter to Olga.
LS sent by mail AA S. Maugham novel "The Moon and a penny, just reissued (then at the periphery of" intellectual "book was easier to buy than in Moscow). In response, he received the envelope with the text of AA and drawings. Drawings - it is not Sooster, it Vadik imitates Sooster.
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Actually, on this collectively, the Parisian artist (in the then Moscow's view, it is 1960-1961) appeared in the "artistic" another artist - Nolev-Sobolev. As already realized a Parisian cafe Rotondo he was carrying a mission art accent. The pronounced disability only decorated his bohemian look, his bones have always stood in a conspicuous place at the table, he always sat right at the entrance, in a corner near a large window-display - the main attractions of coffee, looked grim, mastitis, grandly peremptory. It looked like (but only superficially), the main character in the play Saroyan's "Time of Our Lives, who is also disabled and also constantly sitting in a cafe and the directs the surrounding bustle of waiting in the wings (the play had just been translated and beztirazhnoe edition of the All-Russia Theatrical Society hodilo in a cafe on the hands). He is constantly flipping through some funky foreign publications, smoking sign then "Camel" and generally all carefully Hemingway was also evident.
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Sooster've always been kind zastyvshe is not visible, silent, sat throwing one leg concentrated leading pen on sheets of paper, then it monotemny period "eggs", it seemed, was replaced by an equally paranoid cycle of "amoeba" ( " fish "were still to come), he seems to continuously and sketched.
But often he did outline sitting at the table and then someone gave them, most often, it seems, they get PP Ulitin. Portrait of Nikita Beskin - one of those (intellectual adornment "loft", arrogant, clever, capricious namby-pamby, cynical-line and in a feminine crazy mathematician and esthete Nikita Beskin originally in the cafe visited often, but once compromised in some gebistskom case, was pushed out of the cafe ignoring the most important individuals within it).
In contrast to the artist Noleva-Soboleva, who was always in the most fashionable polyester shirts, jeans, a true American, who had just arrived in Moscow, Sooster absolutely not attracted attention, there was nothing in his appearance that could be taken as a characteristic view not dwell on it, and vice versa, as would preclude him from the field of view as something small and almost irrelevant in the cafe, like Kafka's character.
Above him was a certain aura of loneliness. Calm, silent, slow-moving (but not dull), outwardly impassive, he monstrous "by Estonian" spoke in Russian, slowly but clearly, concisely, correctly and accurately (AA said that he understands in Russian without an accent and no need to talk to him as to the deaf. AA general attitude toward him in particular: carefully and courteously, visited his studio, was aware of his creative cycles and talked about them; Sooster gave him a job with oil "Cat on a moonlit night roof "- something like this it can be called and it was many years in room AA, now she flashes at exhibitions and in publications).
Some time Sooster was perhaps the most regular visitor cafe. I think he had glasses with strong lenses, so that the eye also could be distinguished. But one day, we sat at a table beside him, he leaned over to me to say something or ask, and looked at me over her spectacles, and then I saw his eyes close.
I was vaguely remember his face - something hard tight, but his eyes I guess I will never forget. They were bright, children, clear, trusting, and complete what is a quiet meal. The impression was as if I confidently opened the kind of scary and irreparably mutilated body part. He just about anything he asked me, with him then it was all right, those eyes were with him constantly.
After that I thought he was all filled with this flour that exposes only his eyes that he would hide his unprepossessing appearance, his poker face, his glasses, his silence, that it compels him to speak with a strong accent - not to let out.
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