Egor Otroshchenko. Century=text. Issue 23: 1923

Century=text. Issue 23: 1923
Egor Otroshchenko

Publication date: August 16, 2000

POEM OF THE YEAR | BOOK OF THE YEAR | EVENTS OF THE YEAR | CHARACTERS AND PERFORMERS

Poem of the Year

I am your voice, the heat of your breath,
I am the reflection of your face
Vain wings, vain flutters,
After all, I’m with you to the end anyway.

That's why you love so greedily
Me in sin and in my weakness;
That's why you gave recklessly
I want the best of your sons;
That's why you didn't even ask
I never say a word about him
And smoked with fumes of praise
My forever devastated home.
And they say it’s impossible to merge more closely,
It is impossible to love more irreparably...

How the shadow wants to separate from the body,
How the flesh wants to be separated from the soul,
So now I want to be forgotten.

A. Akhmatova. "Pan's Pipe", #1.

Book of the Year

Green A.S. Scarlet Sails. Tale. - M.-P.

Events

In 1923, the magazine “On Post” began to be published.

“A group of communist writers decided that the time had come to save the socialist patronymic and its citizens from the invasion of various and numerous “foreigners”, in the person of fellow travelers of the revolution, who filled our publishing houses and magazines. In the name of this salvation and the proper straightening of the line of the communist party, the mentioned group created a magazine "On Post", the first issue of which, under the general editorship of comrades Volin, Lelevich and Rodov, was published in June. Here, all the sisters got an earring. It went to "Lef", "Forge", Serapions, "Circle", Pilnyak and Ehrenburg, Gosizdat, "Krasnaya Novy", "Siberian Lights", classics, Gorky. The reader learns that "urgent measures must be taken so that the literary section of the ideological front is not broken through." ( A. Voronsky . Art as knowledge of life and modernity. "Krasnaya new", #6).

died in Kursk V.V. Borodayevsky .

Characters and performers

Kasatkin I. Literary potholes | Ivanov Vs. Blue Sands | Mandelstam O. Second book | Oreshin P. Man on an Ice Floe | Khlebnikov V. Excerpt from the boards of fate | Gerasimov M. Iron bloom | Shmelev I. Vinograd | Green A. Stories | | Pilnyak B. Nikola-on-Posadyakh | Mayakovsky V. 255 pages of Mayakovsky | Ivanov Vs. Seventh Coast | Forge. Literary collection | Other works

Kasatkin I.

Literary Potholes . "Red Nov", #7.

“Turn and turn, but our literature really, like fat in cabbage soup, floats in all directions and is fragmented into countless circles, circles, circles, subcircles and intercircles... Our literary figures, to the whistle and shout of rapid-fire critics, famously shook their caps , rolled up their sleeves, moved side by side, clashed furiously - and now they were wheezing in hand-to-hand combat...

In the first years of the difficult revolutionary struggle and general devastation, on the literary field - even as a ball rolls... The eye rested on the only heroic figure of Demyan Bedny, whose unique and thick poetry, perhaps, is closer and more in tune with the swirling nature of the revolution than everything written in the past. these years until today...

Then, like mushrooms after the rain, home-grown siduns and frisky runners climbed to the surface...

We ourselves drove in the main nail of our proletarian mistakes in the first years of the revolution, and even now we continue to hammer it even deeper. The crux of these mistakes is that we imagined (and still imagine) the possibility of establishing a single, indivisible and unshakable proletarian culture, moreover, without the slightest delay, so that in the morning!

So no one adapted to create under lampposts and at steam hammers... Contrary to the slogans, apparently secluding themselves by smuggling, the proletarian brother writers, no worse than the bourgeois ones, single-handedly produced in those days countless plays, stories, poems - and it all died before the ink had time to dry..."

Ivanov Vs.

Blue sands . - M.

“Vs. Ivanov’s novel “Blue Sands” has as its plot the events of the revolution in the Siberian steppe. A more or less fantastic or, better said, lyrical perception of this steppe took over the plot as a typical reality, instead of submitting to it. In this work, the novelist was clearly interfered with by people . After all, they are always the points of concentration of the plot, its main springs. But in the deep worthlessness of a certain Zapus (some Sanin from the revolution), and abandoned by the author, probably because he was completely unnecessary, in the biographies of Olympias, Fiosa and other characters one can feel : the plot did not find any springs..." ( K. Locks . Modern prose . "Print and Revolution", #7).

Mandelstam O.

Second book . - M.-P.

“When you read O. Mandelstam’s “Second Book”, also known as his “Sorrows,” the question arises: in what century was the book written? Sometimes modernity seems to glimmer, talking about “our century”... But these glimpses fade behind the cloud of all sorts of Hercules , Troezen, Persephone, Pierides, Lethean colds, etc. I am less inclined than anyone else to deny poetry the right to use images of history and the eternal symbols of Hellenic myths, but if in a book of 40 poems some Hellenic god or hero creeps into each one and from every hint of Hellas creeps onto the reader, then - your choice! - this is too much! " ( V. Bryusov . “Press and Revolution”, #6).

Oreshin P.

Man on an ice floe . - M.

“The book contains 14 stories... Their main feature is the old-traditional, very simple language, quiet smoothness, leisurely, slow development of the plot and, therefore, some dryness...

Sometimes they are monotonous and monotonous (“Funny Old Man” and “Old Faithful”), sometimes unprocessedly crumpled, sometimes “provincial”, but more often (and this is reconciled with some dryness of style) - touched by the fresh softness of humor..." ( N.S . "Red Nov", #1)

Khlebnikov V.

Excerpt from the Planks of Destiny . - M.

“Khlebnikov is very famous at this time. A legend has grown and continues to develop around this name...

The small book is an extract from the work of his entire life and gives us the opportunity to appreciate the properties and qualities of the worldview that formed the basis for the activities of all our brainiacs.

It opens with a double poetic introduction. Its first part is written in that brilliant pathetic manner, which Mayakovsky later successfully simplified, and gives us a manifesto of a magician who discovered the laws governing the life of mankind. Knowledge of these laws, according to Khlebnikov, will first of all destroy the possibility of wars, and therefore, he concludes, will abolish the need for the existence of any governments, except for a certain group led by the predzemshar (chairman of the globe) Khlebnikov. You might think that we are experiencing one of the symptoms of megalomania in a paranoid person. But Khlebnikov was not paranoid.

He was only a degenerate in the most typical interpretation
this term, and his thought, like his rare poetic talent, was capable of making only very short efforts, then falling into the realm of the mechanical process of stringing elements similar to themselves..." ( I.A. Aksenov . "Print and Revolution", #5).

Gerasimov M.

Iron bloom . Poetry. - M.

Electropoema . - M.

"M. Gerasimov is one of the first proletarian poets. From his class proletarian point of view, he approached work, the factory, the plant, the machine, the whistle, the city and many other phenomena. And often he approached with a different assessment than intellectual writers... The poet loves steel, dynamo, electric spark. In them he sees his proletarian soul, which fights and defeats the straw souls of the village" ( V. Polyansky . "Print and Revolution", #5).

Shmelev I.

Grape . Stories. - M.-P.

"I. Shmelev began to be diligently republished... This strong and powerful writer reaches the modern reader in both his former and present guise. As an artist, as a master and, above all, a master who has a perfect command of the language, Shmelev in his last works... extremely convincingly proves the organic growth of talent..." ( Yu. Sobolev . "Print and Revolution", #5).

Green A.

Stories . - M.

"A. Green's stories - all about the same thing - essentially develop the same theme. Their hero is unchanged... For the most part, he is a professional renegade, some kind of follower of Rousseau of the 20th century with poorly disguised sentimentality and an obvious undisguised love for nature.

The author placed this strange hero in a conventional setting of tropical seas, northern forests, and exotic colonies. Almost everyone has a tragic past; in the present there is only thirst, impulse...

The author is an excellent stylist, a very skillful storyteller, always maintaining a solid foundation of the plot, to which all the threads of the narrative are tied" ( K. Locks . "Print and Revolution", #5).

Tikhonov N.

Braga . Second book of poems. 1921-1922. - M.-P.

"Tikhonov was one of the first to guess the desire of our poetry for epic completeness and harmony and, following this path, managed to concretize this desire. And his book was born heavy, fell like a large and solid stone that cannot be avoided. A master of plot, giving in his stanzas, the most interesting in the design and construction of the short story. Tikhonov also possesses other necessary knowledge of a poet, he knows how to select unexpected and poignant images, knows how to find and vary rhythmic moves, knows how to impart euphonic beauty to his verse... Perhaps it is in Tikhonov that the modern era found within herself the brightest interpreter" ( D. Vygodsky . "Book and Revolution", #2).

Pilnyak B.

Nikola-on-Posadyakh . Stories. Book 3. - M.-P.

“B. Pilnyak must be recognized as the most artistically mature, and perhaps the most talented. He does not stop at any difficulties (although he does not always successfully overcome them), he dares to create artistic synthesis... Unfortunately, we must add to what has been said many reservations. Pilnyak does not strive to overcome the chaotic lack of plot. His mannered pretentiousness is often annoying, his graphic art pieces in the taste of A. Bely are insipid and imbecile, the disorganization of style, composition is discouraging, even the language, in general, musical, figurative, expressive, is often not flawless.. And yet Pilnyak knows how to capture in such a way that you forget about all this... In the end, the most beautiful girl - as the French proverb says - cannot give more than what she has" ( M. Mogilyansky . "Book and Revolution", #3).

Mayakovsky V.

255 pages of Mayakovsky. Book 1 . - M.

“Everything that fills these 255 pages has already been printed several times, and only the grouping of already known material is new in this edition...

This poetic material is preceded by an autobiography entitled “I Myself”...

The autobiography of a poet is always, to a large extent... fiction, and the critic, when dealing with such phenomena as poetry, has to establish boundaries between what was actually with the author or what was poetically created by him...

It is the things collected in the book that show the gradual political growth of the poet, shaken out of the lyrical-erotic hammock by the war onto the hard and gnarled ground of hungry and bloody reality..." ( I.A. Aksenov . "Print and Revolution", #7).

Ivanov Vs.

Seventh Coast . Stories. - M.-P.

“Ivanov has an excellent language. And not only the dictionary - everything that is directly related to the language: image, phrase, syntax, all narrow stylistic formations ...

That's the whole point. Ivanov's language is too good . Savory, fatty - too fatty. Lard is tasty, but an over-salted pie is not edible.
The stories of Vs. Ivanov are over-salted pies" ( L. Lunts . "Book and Revolution", #1).

Forge

Literary collection. - M.

“If the reader remembers the declaration of the “Forge” group, published in the summer in “Izvestia of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee”, he will remember its false-classical, but certainly sincere and ecstatic tone (“Style is a class. The artist is a function of this class and its creative medium, etc.” "), he will probably take the collection with the hope of seeing in it a vivid concretization of the provisions of this declaration, and will expect from its pages new and daring attempts to sketch the life of the new ruling class.

But... the reader will be deeply disappointed. For it is easier to declare that “a change in the forms of society changes the forms of art,” but it is not so easy to record this change in forms with one’s creativity...” ( V. Pravdukhin . “Krasnaya Nov”, #7).

“They have been and are arguing about the poets of Kuznitsa a lot and fiercely. Is it because there are poets in Kuznitsa that there is something to argue about? Perhaps party and other directives are retold much more correctly in the poems of poets of other proletarian groups, but These poems are still pale and after reading they are somehow hopelessly forgotten... But the poems of Kirillov, Gerasimov, Aleksandrovsky, Filipchenko, Kazin, although much can be said against these poems, will remain in the history of Russian poetry..." ( V. Bryusov . Among the poems . “Press and Revolution”, #7).

And others:

Alexandrovsky V. Ringing of the sun . Poems and poems. Book 1. - M.

Aseev N. Budenny . A poem. - M.

Sofron na fronte . - M.

Council of the Winds . - M.-P.

Select . Poetry. 1912-1922. - M.-P.

Arosev A. White staircase . Stories. - M.-P.

Artyushkov A. Sound and verse . - P.

Averchenko A. Miniatures . - M.

Brik O.M. Unfellow traveler . - M.-P.

Veresaev V. Without a road . Tale. - M.

Wolkenshtein V. Theater . Tragedies. - P.

Volynsky A.L. N.S. Leskov . - P.

Vorovsky V. Literary essays . - M.

Voronsky A. At the junction . Digest of articles. - M.-P.

Gumilevsky L. Blind Night . - M.

Gerasimov M. Flowers under fire . Book 2. - M.

Spring plant . Poetry. 2nd add. edition. - M.

Gershenzon M.O. The history of young Russia . - M.-P.

Grossman L. Sketches about Pushkin . - M.-P.

Gorodetsky S. Mirolom. 13 book of poems . - M.-P.

Green A.S. Heart of the Desert . Storybook. - M.

Gumilev N.S. Letters on Russian poetry . - P.

Poems. Posthumous collection . 2nd add. edition. - P.

Derunov K.N. Bibliography of Russian reviews. (1850-1923). List of periodicals examined, indicating their symbols and time of publication . - M.

Evreinov N.N. Dramatic Writings . Volume 3 (Plays from the repertoire of "The Distorting Mirror"). - P.

Zhirmunsky V. Rhyme, its history and theory . - P.

Zamyatin E. Mamai. Surveyor . - P.

In the middle of nowhere . Novels and stories. - P.-M.

Zoshchenko M. Stories . - P.

Lights of Saint Dominic . A play in 4 acts. - P.

Raznotyk . Stories. - P.

Humorous stories . - M.-P.

Zilov L. The sky fell . - M.-P.

Rain . - M.-P.

Мизгирь . - M.-P.

Kissel . - M.-P.

Zozulya E. Gramophone of the ages . - M.

Ivanov Vs. Sopki. Partisan stories . - M.-P.

Ivanov-Razumnik . Before the storm . 1916-1917. - P.

Lidin V. Buddha. The ark . Stories. - P.

Sea draft . Tale. - P.

Mouse everyday life . Stories. - M.-P.

Leonov L. The Wooden Queen and other stories . - P.

Petushikha breach . Tale. - M.

Lvov-Rogachevsky V. Newest Russian literature . - M.

Lyashko N. Rainbow . Stories. Book 2. - M.

On the river . Stories. - M.

Mayakovsky V. Mayakovsky smiles. Mayakovsky laughs. Mayakovsky is mocking . - M.-P.

Poems about revolution. October. February. Hunger. Europe. Art. Funny . - M.

Rituals . - M.

Lyrics . - M.-P.

About it . - M.-P.

There's moonshine . Poetry. - M.

Marshak S. Children in a cage . - P.-M.

The house that Jack built . English children's songs. Retold by S. Marshak. - P.-M.

The Tale of a Stupid Mouse . - P.-M.

Nesmelov B. Giving birth is for men . Poem. - M.

Neverov A. New house . Stories. - M.-P.

The face of life . Stories. Volume 2. - M.

Nikitin N. Stones . Stories. - P.

Riot . - M.-P.

Nikulin L. Red Fleet . Poem. - M.-P.

Novikov-Priboi A. Submariners . Tale. - M.-P.

A sea of ​​worries. Sea stories . Book 2. - M.

Two souls . Stories. - M.

Kataev V. In a besieged city . Story. - P.

Kaverin V. Masters and apprentices . Stories. - M.-P.

Kuzmin M. Conventions . Articles about art. - P.

Kazin V. Working May . Poetry. - M.-P.

Kruchenykh A. Children's own stories . Gathered by A. Kruchenykh. - M.

Theater phonetics. 1. New social language. 2. Cinema and the great silent language. 3. Mass alarm. 4 Samples. 5. Artists and poets about phonology. Book 123 . - M.

Klyuev N. Lenin . - M.-P.

Kuprin A. Wonderful rain . - M.

Kirillov V. Departure . Poetry. - M.

Klychkov S. Home songs . 5th book. poems. - M.-P.

Wonderful guest . Selected Poems. - M.-P.

Oreshin P. Rye sun . Poetry. Volume 1. - M.-P.

Parnok S. Loza . Poems 1922 - M.

Pereleshin B. Belma Salara . Poetry. - M.

Pilnyak B. Volume 1. Naked Year . Novel. Ed.2, ​​revised. - M.-P.

Tales of Black Bread . - M.-P.

Simple stories . - P.

Platonov A. Blue depth . Book of poems. - Krasnodar.

Slonimsky M. Death Row . Stories. - P.

Polonskaya E. Under the stone rain . 1921-1923. - M.-P.

Seifullina L. Humus . Stories. - M.-P.

Sobol A. Debris . Third book of stories. 1920-1923 - M.-P.

People passing by . Second book of stories. 1916-1918. - M.

Serafimovich A. Babya village and other stories . - M.

City in the steppe . Novel. - M.-P.

Stories . - M.-P.

Wanderer . Memories . - M.-P.

Tomashevsky B. Russian versification. Metrica . - P.

Fedin K. Wasteland . - M.-P.

Khlebnikov V. Poems . - M.

Excerpt from the Planks of Destiny . - M.

Excerpt from the boards of fate (Sheet two) . - M.

Excerpt from the boards of fate (Leaf three. ABC of heaven) . - M.

Tolstoy A.N. Lunar dampness . Stories 1921 - M.-P.

Love spell . - M.-P.

A Tale of Many Excellent Things (Nikita's Childhood) . - M.-P.

Lame gentleman . Novel. Newly revised edition. 1912-1919. - M.-P.

Aelita (Zakat Marsa) . - M.-P.

Dead running . A Tale of Foreign Years. - M.-P.

Eikhenbaum B. Anna Akhmatova. Analysis experience . - P.

Ehrenburg I. The life and death of Nikolai Kurbov . Novel. - M.

The extraordinary adventures of Julio Jurenito and his students: Monsieur Dele, Karl Schmidt, Mr. Cool, Alexei Tishin, Ercole Bambucci, Ilya Erenburg and the black Aisha in the days of peace, war and revolution in Paris, Mexico, Rome, Senegal, Kineshma, in Moscow and in other places, as well as various judgments of the Teacher about pipes, about death, about love, about freedom, about the game of chess, about the Jewish tribe, about construction and much more with a preface by N. Bukharin . - M.-P.

Portraits of Modern Poets . - M.

Shengeli G. Battleship Potemkin . Dramatic poem. - M.

Practical poetry . - M.

Treatise on Russian verse. Part 1. Organic metrics . Edition 2, revised. - M.-P.

Shmelev I. They and us . Stories for children. - M.-P.

The last shoot . Story. - M.

Let's catch up with the sun . - M.

Ragged master . Story. - M.-P.

Chukovsky K. Moidodyr . Cinema for children. - M.-P.

Murkin's book . - P.-M.

Shaginyan M. Adventures of a Lady from Society . A little novel. - M.-P.

Your own destiny . Novel. - M.-P.

Literary Diary . Articles 1921-1923 Edition 2, supplemented. - M.-P.

Travel to Weimar . - M.-P.

Shkapskaya M. Reality . Poem. - M.-P.

Shiryaevets A. Muzhikoslov . - M.-P.

Shishkov Vyach. American . - P.

Taiga . Tale. Edition 2. - M.-P.

With a knapsack . Essays. - M.-P.

Shchipachev S. Under the mound of centuries . - Simferopol.

Jacobson R. About Czech verse mainly in comparison with Russian . - Berlin.

Collections:

Poets' Library . Ed. V. Kamensky. 2. - M. (N. Berendgof, V. Kamensky, G. Sidorov, S. Tretyakov, V. Khlebnikov).

Biocosmists . 10 pieces. - P. (A. Yaroslavsky, I. Linkst, P. Loginov, O. Or, K. Chachkin, S. Kochet, E. Ern, N. Rem, A. Sergeenko, S. Tikhonov).

Stages (Emigrants about emigrant life). - P. (A. Averchenko, N. A. Teffi, A. Vetlugin, M. Pervukhin, Don-Aminado, etc.).