How has this book grown?
As everybody. How are you. As everybody.
At first she was very small. In 1965 (you were not yet born) it had only ten pages and a cover, and it was not yet called "language", but only - "letter". Completely - "The letter got lost." This little book started our joint work with a special poet Alexander Alexandrovich Shibaev.
I had to finish it by myself.
It was very interesting for me to play language, such a big, very complex game with so much thinking!
This game is played with signs: punctuation marks, letters, words that add letters together - all these are signs.
Every game is played by the rules. You need to know the rules. Those who do not even know simple rules are laughed at. "He (she, they) is funny!" We have fun - we know how to do it right! Shibaev's poems laugh with us!
I drew what Alexander Alexandrovich wanted to write. He wrote what was interesting for me to draw. Together again - fun!
And quite fun - with you. All together."
Vadim Gusev (author of drawings for the book).
Author: Alexander Shibaev
Pages: 128 (offset). Hard cover
Dimensions: 297x215x14mm
Publisher: DETGIZ
