Rubinstein's texts are theatrical in their own way, but the theatrical effect is of a special kind: the characters are off screen, only their voices are heard. Here these voices play a "mute episode. "The text as if speaks outloud, but is closed and intelligible only to itself. How is it done? Often the author just uses exclamations and chance utterances, that is, speech which in its quality is momentary, accidental, garbage. A word spoken, flew away, as the Russian saying goes. This word, which exists to fly away and return and immediately disappear, cuts across both lines- the speaker and addressee are removed. This word hangs in the air. Momentary utterances caught in flight are transformed into entirely new forms, alien to their nature. From speech (one ought not even call it speech, but gesticulation) the word becomes a literary language. New meanings begin to pour out, new connections grow. It becomes a literary text" (Mikhail Aizenberg)

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