Egor Otroshchenko. Century=text. Issue 42: 1942

N. Glazkov . First published:
"Samizdat of the Century", Minsk-M., 1997.

Events

On February 2, died in the prison hospital D. Kharms .

In July, returning from besieged Sevastopol, E. Petrov , who served as a war correspondent, died.

Publication of the Year

Tvardovsky A. Vasily Terkin. Poem. - "Banner", #9-10.

""Vasily Terkin" undoubtedly echoes the fairy tale. The poem clearly has the feel of a Russian fairy tale... At the same time, the poem is deeply realistic, it tells about major historical events, about the difficult days of retreat in the summer of 1941.

"Vasily Terkin" - despite its traditional nature - is undoubtedly an innovative thing. Terkin's image both continues the tradition and establishes a new one. Terkin is not only Russian, but also a Soviet man, brought up by the new reality. His patriotism is deeply realized, his intelligence is the development and culture of an advanced collective farmer. Tvardovsky does not at all think that Russian tradition presupposes archaisms, deliberate “folk” naivety and all that other stuff that other zealous stylizers present to us. Tvardovsky simply feels free in the Russian national form, in the Russian tradition, and develops this form in accordance with our time." ( V. Ermilov . "Literature and Art", #44).

Characters and performers

Matusovsky M.

Front. Book of poems. - M.

Stipachev S.P.

Front line poems. - M.

Vasiliev S.

Answer to the enemy. Poetry. - M.

Surkov A.

Front notebook. Poetry. - M.

Native Moscow. Poetry. - M.

“A significant part of the poems discussed here were created directly in a combat situation, in conditions of operational haste, sometimes in an extremely short time, limited by the need to publish the next issue of a front-line newspaper in a timely manner. Despite all this, most poems not only do not need no matter what the “rush” discounts were, it also testifies to the undoubted growth of the poetic skill of their authors.

The first thing that is especially pleasing in the poems of such poets as Surkov, Matusovsky, Shchipachev is the ability to subordinate their images and emotions to a single thought, to permeate them with a single sense of purpose. Whatever is discussed in the poems of these poets, everywhere you feel the formidable greatness of today and the feelings of people's aspirations born of it. The days of war are harsh and difficult, but the stronger is our confidence in victory...

And finally, I would like to say in conclusion about one more quality of poetry of today. The deep feeling with which the poems of poets breathe, speaking about what is dearest and closest to each of them, true lyricism, simplicity, sincerity - all this turned out to be a powerful tool in overcoming the rhetoric, cliches and verbal chatter, which until recent years was often replaced by poetic disclosure of the topic. Only a few poems... are not free from these shortcomings... Most of the poems included in the collections under review please with the freshness of poetic perception, the integrity and organic nature of the images..." ( Nikitin N. Front -line poems . "Banner", #3- 4).

Surkov A.A.

December near Moscow. Front line poems. June-December 1941 - M.

“Now you have no time for poetry, O dear Russian word,” Tyutchev wrote during the Sevastopol campaign. Do Russian people care about poetry now? - some outside observers of the June-July days of 1941 asked in bewilderment on the pages of the foreign press. For Soviet people, both reading and writing, such a question - even in the most intense periods of the war - did not exist...

The best Soviet word artists from the very first days of the war reached out to the front lines. And from the very first hours of hostilities, new songs of our poets were heard on the air...

Analyzing “December near Moscow”, we can confidently say that A. Surkov will henceforth go down in the history of Soviet poetry not only as the author of popular songs.

What is the fundamental novelty of Surkov’s latest collection? In formal innovation? Not at all. The “direct and cruel words” of this book by A. Surkov are kept here in traditions, sometimes reminiscent of Nekrasov’s verse...

In the poems written during the war, Surkov did not change his basic motives. However, it became clear to him that the Soviet song, which “calls the brave to march,” should henceforth not only call together soldiers, but also accompany them in difficult and heroic everyday life... Thus, in July 1941, his “Warrior Oath” was born ", written in rhythmic prose, and between July and December 1941, a cycle of poems was written, which is nothing more than the poet’s lyrical traveling diary. It is this cycle of poems that determines the appearance of the collection “December near Moscow”...

This is a book by a poet enriched by the experience of war. This is its novelty... "December near Moscow" is a book of sincere anger and love. Written during the harsh hours of the war, it is full of faith in the future, when “the time will come to raise a glass to brotherhood and love.” She truthfully shows the image of a fighter of the Patriotic War, who knows how to both hate and love in the name of the bright future of his own and future generations. Such a book will not only become a fact of A. Surkov’s poetic biography. She will live long in the hearts of readers." ( A. Leites . "New World", #3-4).

Martynov L.

We will come. Poetry. - Omsk.

“Leonid Martynov is called a regional writer, and rightly so. He is “regional,” of course, not in his own sense, but in another, not at all restrictive, good and valuable sense of the word. And his “region,” of course, is not only Siberia ...

You cannot destroy the work of many generations, you cannot erase their traces. In this consciousness of the continuity of one’s unity with those who paved the way, starting with those who were the first to make fire and make flint arrowheads, there is confidence, strength...

With such a sense of history and geography, with such an understanding of them, Martynov turns to the theme of his collection - the military theme, the theme of defending the country, protecting culture... This is not some kind of “philosophy in general”, these poems were not written outside of space and time, they speak specifically about our time...

Love for a country is not love for something abstract; it necessarily also includes love for the “land,” for cities and villages, for that history and nature with which you have become close, without which you cannot live; and true love for the “land” cannot be confined within the boundaries of this region alone; it must be extended throughout the country...

...Martynov’s collection can be ranked among the best collections of poetry published during the war..." ( V. Alexandrov . "Banner", #12).

Simonov K.

Lyrical diary. Poetry. - M.

"Simonov's "Lyrical Diary" made a huge impression. I remembered Blok, we heard his intonations. But above all, we smelled Simonov, we heard his courageous and sincere voice...

K. Simonov's poems touch us because we find in them the living soul of the poet: sincere, truthful. He lives at the expense of his soul, is internally free and remains himself. His poems are devoid of colorful outfits, bookish phrases, thundering words and other cheap “artistic tinsel.” The poet found those quiet words that can declare themselves loudly... And I would also like to draw attention to the fact that in the “Lyrical Diary”, where there is great human grief, there are no those mournful notes of sacrifice and detachment from this world that are so rich in literature of times of tragic upheavals. This is an important fact. Simonov remains an optimist and a lover of life. Melancholy is alien to his poems, just as penny vivacity is alien. He boldly looks forward." ( S. Tregub . "Literature and Art", #27).

Tvardovsky A.T.

Poems about war. - M.

“The war poems of A. Tvardovsky are simple and convincing. The best qualities of the poet, familiar to us from his previous poems and especially fully revealed in “The Country of Ant,” are expressed here too. A strange love for the homeland, a deep natural feeling for peasant life, a firm belief in creative power of the Russian people, into their bright future - the new book is filled with all this.

What is also pleasing about it is that the topical, burning, acute theme - the great theme of the Patriotic War - in most of the poems found a truly poetic expression, without any significant concessions to the temptation to “at least somehow sing what the heart is full of”...

A living, sincere, warm feeling with human warmth that has not yet cooled down - this is what characterizes the book as a whole, filling his best poems...

The absence of any pomposity, simplicity, the ability to find the most intelligible, “conversational” and at the same time expressive intonations, good, not superficial lightness of the verse, attractive songlike rhythms, correctness and purity of language, the ability to tell stories - all these are the strengths of the author of “Ant” are also present in Tvardovsky’s “military” poems.

Something has disappeared, however: the colorfulness of the images, the colorfulness of the vocabulary material... Compared to the previous richness, richness, even riot of rhythms, intonations, verbal characteristics..., here everything is kept in “black and white”, written in silhouette, with one line . But this is legal: after all, these poems were not written as before, not in a peaceful environment... The poet composed these poems with frowning eyebrows and clenched teeth..." ( A. Gorbov . "New World", #11-12).

Ehrenburg I.

Fall of Paris. Novel. - M.

“I. Ehrenburg’s works about France continue the classical Russian tradition in Soviet literature. Ehrenburg added a new page about France to the “page of love” in Turgenev, to the “page of hatred” in Dostoevsky...

Ehrenburg’s book combines love and hatred, like everything that progressive people wrote about France, who breathed easily in this country precisely because its air was cleared almost from decade to decade by thunderstorms of popular anger...

Since the appearance of "Modern History" by Anatole France, "The Fall of Paris" by I. Ehrenburg is the largest and most powerful depiction of the modern history of France, the most brilliant satire on the French reaction...

...Ehrenburg’s book is not only the contribution of Soviet literature to the struggle of our fatherland against the German invaders, but also a contribution to the struggle of all freedom-loving peoples against the common enemy - Hitler’s barbarism..." ( B. Pyasis . "Banner", #5-6 ).

Tikhonov N.S.

Traits of a Soviet man. Leningrad stories. - M.

“Before our eyes, an epic is emerging, which will shine in history as the greatest legend of courage. It is palpable not only in the immeasurable exploits on the battlefields, but also in everything that creates the immeasurable appearance of the country, which has become a single military camp...

The creative forces of the revolution elevated our people in their deeds. From here comes the depth of breathing, the truthful vigilance, the spacious capacity of the heart of those Soviet artists whose life is merged with the people. Nikolai Tikhonov showed himself to be such an artist...

"Features of a Soviet Man" is undoubtedly a great success for the author...

The writer saw how death retreated before the glorious exploits of the brave. Leningrad became one of the impregnable fortresses. On the dark, crater-eaten streets, among thousands of deaths, immortality settled...

The depth and maturity of Tikhonov’s mastery is reflected in the fact that the writer shows this not as something visible from the outside, but as something that has become the feeling of so many...

Nikolai Tikhonov gave the cycle of Leningrad sketches a very precise title - “features of a Soviet man.” The heroes of the stories are internally revealed in their most important, defining quality. They live by the same aspiration, but experience it differently. They are guided in life by one idea, but express it through a variety of actions. They think about one city, about one land, about one thing... The language of the heroes expresses their essence, the landscape accumulates the spiritual mood of people, shades the meaning of events. The subtlety of the writer's ear, the keenness of observation, the creative imagination - make the images of people, complex and simple, workers and intellectuals, old people and children, equally vivid." ( O. Reznik . The Birth of the Modern Epic. "New World", #1-2).

"N. Tikhonov's Leningrad stories complement and illustrate his poems. What cannot be expressed in poetry is told by the poet in prose. Tikhonov's prose is deliberately simple, businesslike, without unnecessary poetic embellishment, almost sketchy. Each short story describes some some ordinary incident from the life of ordinary Leningrad residents during the siege. All these are non-military people - a photographer with a watering can, a woman on duty in a maternity hospital, a mother who loves her only son, a student, a director, a history teacher, Polya’s girlfriend, etc. But in difficult days of testing, they all turn out to be capable of heroic deeds. Each small fact of the story paints with a new touch the heroic “features of a Soviet man.” From them, like from the pebbles of a mosaic, Tikhonov wants to put together a big picture of the heroism of the Soviet people. However, Tikhonov’s Leningrad stories do not exhaust it big topic - one feels that Tikhonov knows much more about Leningrad than he told, and that he will talk about it later, when the time comes, in more detail and in more depth." ( M. Zenkevich . "Banner", #8).

And others:

Azarov V. Baltic ballads. - M.-L.

Aliger M. In memory of the brave. Poetry. - M.

Alymov S. Everything for victory. Poems and songs. - M.

Antokolsky P.G. Six months. Poetry. - M.

Iron and fire. Poetry. - M.

Poor D. Military harvest. Spring story. - M.

Our strength. Poetry. - M.

Berggolts O.F. Leningrad notebook. Poetry. - M.

Bogolyubov K. There is a people's war. Stories. - Sverdlovsk.

Vasiliev S. Angry lines. Front line poems. - M.

War. Front line poems. - M.

Moscow is behind us. Poem. - M.

Vashantsev S.I. General Front-line stories. - M.

Vilensky E. Front line. Essays. - M.

Gabrilovich E.O. Near the front line. Essays. - M.

Machine heart. Tale. - M.

Gaidar A.P. Rockets and grenades. Essays. - M.

Hungry M.S. Songs and ballads of the Patriotic War. - Tashkent.

Poems about Ukraine. - M.

Gorodetsky S.M. Duma. From the 17th book of poems. - Tashkent.

Grossman V. The people are immortal. Tale. - M.

Direction of the main attack. - M.

Stalingrad true story. - M.

Gusev V.M. Poetry. - M.

Dolmatovsky E. Song about the Dnieper. Front line poems. - M.

Zharov A.A. At the Black Sea. Poems, songs. - M.-L.

Bogatyr. Poem. - M.

Severomorsk. Poems and poems. - M.

Kerim. A poem. - M.

Zaslavsky M. Stories of a machine gunner. - M.

Inge Y. Baltic poems. - M.-L.

Isakovsky M.V. Piglets. Partisan reality. Poetry. - M.-L.

New poems. - M.

Isbach A. Debt. 8 stories. - M.

Kaverin V.A. House on the hill. Stories. - M.

Leningrad. August 1941. Stories from the front. - Molotov.

Eagle flight. Stories. - M.-L.

Kapitsa P. Courage. Stories and essays. - M.

Karavaeva A.A. Brigade of the brave. Feature article. - M.

Kassil L.A. Moscow records. Essays. - M.

Seven stories. - Sverdlovsk.

Kataev V.P. War stories. - M.

Kirsanov S.I. Poem of the front. - Kalinin.

Kozhevnikov V. Stories about war. - M.

Kolychev O.Ya. Oleko Dundich. Poem. - M.

Six o'clock in the morning. Poetry. - M.

Krongauz A. Echelons. Poetry. - M.

Lavrenev B.A. Indomitable heart. - M.

Feat. Stories. - M.

The Baltic people light their pipes. Stories. - Tashkent.

Lebedev A. Fire pennant. Poetry. - M.-L.

Lebedev-Kumach V. Holy War. Poems and songs. - M.-L.

Levin K.Ya. Anna Kryazheva. Stories. - M.

Lench D. A strange case. Stories. - M.

Lunch L. Aspen count. Satirical stories, plays, fairy tales, poems. - M.

Lidin V.G. Revenge. Chapter from the novel. - Chkalov.

Feat. Collection of artistic and journalistic articles. - Kuibyshev.

Losev V. Proud people. Stories. - M.

Luknitsky P. In the forests of Karelia. Stories and essays. - Yaroslavl.

Marshak S.Ya. History lesson. Satirical poems. - M.

Mikhalkov S. On the Southern Front. Poetry. - M.

Oislander A. The Dalek region. North Sea coast. - M.-L.

Panferov F. With my own eyes. Tale. - M.

Paustovsky K. Our days. Storybook. - Tashkent.

Petrov E. Moscow for us. Essays. - M.

Front diary. - M.

Platonov A.P. Spiritualized people. - M.

Polyakov A. Behind enemy lines. Diary of a war correspondent. - M.

Alien A. Hike. Poetry. - M.

Prokofiev A. and Sayanov V. Guard of Heights. Poetry. - Sverdlovsk.

Rosenfeld S. Huns. Tale. - Molotov.

Svetlov M.A. Fatherland of heroes. - M.

Twenty eight. Poetry. - M.

Poems about Liza Chaikina. - M.

Simonov K. Son of an artilleryman. Frontline poem. - M.

Long-range scouts. Combat episodes. - Alma-Ata.

On the Karelian front. Essays. - M.

Poems of 1941. - M.

From the Black to the Barents Sea. Notes of a war correspondent. - M.

To the west. Digest of articles. - Tashkent.

Lyrics. - M.

Russian heart. - M.

Front line poems. - M.

Fight on the outskirts. Essay on the defense of Stalingrad in 1942 - M.

Kill him! Contempt for death. Poetry. - M.

With you and without you. From a lyrical diary. Poetry. - M.

Days and nights. Feature article. - M.

Moscow. - M.

Slobodskoy M. Spoiled panorama. Poetry; in the same place: Marshak S. Frost and frost; Certificate of maturity. - M.-L.

Slonimsky M.L. Enemy. Stories. - Molotov.

Native home. Stories. - Molotov.

Sobolev L.S. One wish. Stories. - M.-L.

Stories. - M.

Nightingale. Front-line stories. - M.

A battalion of four. Stories. - M.

Solodar Ts. Oath. Front line poems. - M.

On the offensive! Poetry. - M.

Sofronov A. Horse Guards. Poetry. - M.

Cossack glory. Poetry. - M.

Stavsky V.P. Fearlessness and resourcefulness. Essays. - Nalchik.

Surkov A.A. Ballad about the scout Peshkov; in the same place: Simonov K. Harsh anniversary. Poetry. - M.-L.

Roads lead to the West. Book of poems. January-May 1942 Western Front. - M.

I sing hate. Poetry. - M.

Surkov A. and Solodar Ts. Grisha Tankin. Stories in verse about the exploits of a savvy and cheerful fighter. - M.

Tarasenkov A. Baltic people. Poetry. - M.

Tvardovsky A.T. Mother. Poetry. - M.-L.

We will hit harder hour by hour! Poetry. - M.-L.

A fighter's house. Poetry. - M.

Ballad about Moscow. - Penza.

Southwestern front. Poetry. 1941-1942. - M.

Tikhonov N.S. Fire year. Collection of poems. - M.

A word about 28 guardsmen. Poem. - M.

Leningrad stories and poems. - Tashkent.

Tolstoy A.N. Homeland. Collection of articles and essays. - Krasnoyarsk.

What we protect. Digest of articles. - Tashkent.

Daredevils. From life at the front. - M.

Stories by Ivan Sudarev. - M.

Kill the beast. - Stalingrad.

Utkin I.P. Poems about heroes. - Tashkent.

Front line poems. - Tashkent.

Ushakov N. Just cause. Poems about war. - Tashkent.

Forsh O.D. New stories. - Sverdlovsk.

Shaginyan M.S. Diary of a Muscovite. - M.

Sharov A. Big love. Stories. - M.

Shvetsov S.A. Let's take aim. Satirical poems. - M.

Sheveleva E. Native land. Poetry. - M.

Shishko A. Motherland. Tale. - M.

Sholokhov M.A. The science of hate. Tale. - M.

Cossacks. Feature article. - Pyatigorsk.

On South. Feature article. - M.

Shumskaya. E.I. Inextricable links. Poetry. - Ufa.

Shchipachev S.P. Homeland. Poetry. - M.

Poetry. - M.

Ehrenburg I. The hour is approaching. Essays. - M.

Forward! Digest of articles. - M.

Fire at the enemy. Digest of articles. - Tashkent.

Hatred. - M.

They will answer. Digest of articles. - Ulan-Ude.

Cannibals. - Kazan.

Basilisk. Artistic and journalistic collection. September 1941 - January 1942. - M.

Otobyem! - Stalingrad.

For a life. Artistic and journalistic collection. - M.

Live alone. Articles. - Ufa.

Yampolsky B. Foreigner. Stories. - M.

Yashin A. Krasnaya Gorka. Baltic poems. - M.-L.

It was in the Baltic. Poetry. - M.

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