Egor Otroshchenko. Century=text. Issue 43: 1943

I. Selvinsky.

Events

In November died at the front , V.P. Stavsky .

On December 20, died Yu.N. Tynyanov .

begins The persecution of M. Zoshchenko .

Characters and performers

Krongauz A.

Echelon. - M., 1942 .

Poems about home. - M., 1943.

“Often, confusion is a trace of the quest for innovative aspiration. One cannot suspect Kronhaus of these quests. His poetics are entirely within the four operations of arithmetic...

The vacuity of Kronhaus's poems is matched by an astonishing carelessness. As sad as it may be, in the second book it appears even more clearly than in the first. We are no longer talking about the poverty of rhyme (like: they stood and saw, guns, edges, and everything in the same way). The author simply doesn’t think about them...

But the book was published and the second one - "Poems about Home" - was marked 1943.

Essentially, it is no different from the first one. The year separating the first collection from the second was in vain for the author. However, one cannot ignore the naive trick with which the author tried to update the structure of the second collection: his title poem, in disassembled form, served as the theme for the other eleven...

In "Poems about Home" the poverty of the author's vocabulary and poetic vocabulary is most striking. This program poem contains the following lines:

Mother - a small, sweet old lady
Great power comes to you.

Even in the first collection, Kronhaus’s heroes, who left their native places, exclaimed:

We'll be back, dear ones,
Mortars, mines,
Mortars, mines,
Fast tanks,
Fast tanks,
Long-range guns...

Strength comes as an old woman, and a man returns as a long-range cannon - this is the limit of the author’s symbolic sophistication." ( O. Reznik . Has no figure. "New World", #5-6).

Pasternak B.

On early trains. New poems. - M.

“Pasternak could not, of course, help but feel the enemy as a new Herod in Bethlehem (“A Scary Tale”). Together with all his people, he knows that the bloody Herod “will be fully reckoned with time”...

But we had the right to expect much more than what was heard in the “War Months” cycle: a different, deeper, more excited ability to see, hear, understand and tell about it in the full poetic voice, in the full depth of poetic breath, to the full extent of the poetic mastery granted to Pasternak.

Surprisingly, it is this most important cycle of poems in the book that sounds somehow sotto voce and is artistically the least convincing of all his new poems.

Mayakovsky once correctly wrote: “It is not necessary to write about war, but it is necessary to write about war.” Boris Pasternak wrote about the war, but did not write “war”; he had not yet found real, passionate, truly human intonations.” ( N.V. About the new poems of Boris Pasternak . “New World”, #7-8).

Antokolsky P.

Boris Pasternak . "Banner", #9-10.

"Boris Pasternak's new book is a significant phenomenon. Not only because he is a wonderful poet and that his books are published very rarely. But also because now, having reached full maturity, Pasternak is becoming more and more clear and simple, his attitude to life, to others, to nature - more and more humanely. This is a natural road. You don’t have to thank anyone for it, and Pasternak in particular has nothing to do with it. This is the road of many poets...

What is this book about?

It begins with poems about war. There are few of them, and they all date back to 1941. The war took on the character of an intense, almost deliberate concreteness in them...

Everything is everyday life. New, but already inhabited by people. It’s strange, but you can and should live in it. The world has been created.

In one of these poems another hero appears, who cannot in any way be suspected of being lyrical, i.e. Deputy author. This is a wounded young man in the hospital. The plot of the story is outlined:

Suddenly the patient found out in the ward
Childhood friend, fathers' home.

What a dramatic situation, what dramatic situations it is fraught with! But the author passes them by...

And here we must say about Pasternak’s strength - and his weakness.

He started and threw it on the floor of the road. But all of his work (with a few very important exceptions...) is an introductory word, a promising plot, the beginning of an intrigue that the author has no time or no need to unravel. We are shown how this could be realized, how it should have unfolded, what prospect would have opened up around the bend of the road... In short, the subjunctive mood is celebrating its name day. Not knowledge, but the theory of knowledge, the pre-dawn time of creativity - “this is how one begins to live in verse”! The whole point is that Pasternak does not need a continuation. This is his strength and this is his weakness...

So Pasternak’s weakness comes into contact with his strength, his unevenness turns out to be a complete method. And everything about him intrigues, fascinates, does not give the last answer, and again and again promises to enchant. Maybe this is real poetry? It can’t be, but it’s probably true.”

Nagibin Yu.

The man from the front. Stories. - M.

“This small collection of military episodes from 1942 is easy to read, and the author’s undoubted literary abilities and skill are very clearly visible in it, except, however, the most important thing - the ability to excite the reader’s heart...

In these short stories, told smoothly and with deliberate simplicity (the author knows that it is more decent to talk about war simply, that Tolstoy wrote about war simply), we would in vain look for excitement, surprise, anger, warm sympathy, even just youthful embarrassment in front of the grandeur of life and greedy young curiosity. No, here everything is thought out, except for the most important thing - the war, everything is calculated, except for the main goal - the heart of the reader..." ( V. Smirnov . In cold words . "Banner", #9-10).

Inber V.

Pulkovo meridian . Poem. - L.

“Songs and tales, and epics, and tragedies will be created about the struggle of the great city. But we, Leningraders, can be proud that now, when the wounds are still hot, when the houses are still smoking, when the struggle is still in full swing, that a poem has already been created not for an hour, not for a day, but for the future, or rather, for our day, and for the future , and as our weapon, and as a memory of us in history...

Therefore, you need to read it as a whole, and only then does it fully reward the reader for his attention. For the art of Leningrad they are almost as significant a phenomenon as Shostakovich's 7th symphony. And the poem itself, in its pace, sequence of parts, alternation of themes and rhythm of emotions, is like a symphony of words." ( Gruzdev I. Leningrad poem . "L
Literature and Art", #3).

Dmitriev L.

About the new story by M. Zoshchenko . "Literature and Art", #49).

"In the last two books of the magazine "October" a number of chapters of the new story were published
M. Zoshchenko "Before sunrise". The story is autobiographical. M. Zoshchenko recalls many incidents and stories from his life. These short stories - about a hundred of them - are connected by a common theme: M. Zoshchenko is looking in his memoirs for an explanation for the gloomy, depressed state that has haunted him all his life. He is undertaking special “scientific” research on this matter. It is not difficult, however, to see that the cause of this disaster is much simpler than the author seems. It consists in the fact that actual, real life is replaced in the story by a narrow circle of bourgeois feelings, interests and ideas of the author. Looking at his surroundings from a petty philistine “point of view,” the author sees nothing but his swamp. He has no idea that beyond this swamp there is a real, big world...

The reader watches with bewilderment how M. Zoshchenko blackens the surrounding objects. Under his brush, as if by evil magic, all people become crooked, hunchbacked, dirty; friendship turns into hypocrisy, fun into gloating, love into atrophy of feeling or lust...

In the comments, M. Zoshchenko writes that he decided, so to speak, in the name of science to highlight everything dark and ugly - to make a kind of extract of life's dirt and vulgarity.

“This is necessary,” he says, “to study the causes of the melancholy that has overwhelmed me.”

But M. Zoshchenko’s comments do not change anything either in the essence and meaning of the story, or in its assessment.

Pseudo-scientific reasoning remains on the conscience of the author, and the world of people shown by him exists in the story by itself and gives a grossly distorted image of reality. One remains perplexed as to how the editors of a reputable literary magazine, who hastened to publish this vulgar and harmful work, did not understand this.”

Frenkel I.

Friends and comrades . Poetry. - M.

“Ilya Frenkel wants his song to arise in the hearts of the fighters, as a desire to speak out, as a desire to relieve one’s soul, to talk, as they say, “heart to heart,” as a simple everyday text, ordinary everyday intonation:

Let's smoke
One by one,
Let's smoke
My comrade!

I. Frenkel's poems are close to many for their songfulness, natural intonation, perhaps too monotonous. The author addresses the reader as an interlocutor, but not in the usual textbook sense of the word (“do you know, my reader...”, etc., etc.), but as a work comrade, classmate, fellow soldier. This was found...

While I. Frenkel's song lasts to the accompaniment of harmonium, it is good, it is poetic, it captivates. But as soon as the poet is left alone with the verse, he loses in strength and expressiveness. The banal, stereotypical, commonplace appears...

Songwriting is Frenkel's forte. In the song he is a poet. In poetry he is rarely a poet...

“There are so many words in songs!” - Frenkel exclaims. That song in which you start counting the words is “Leaving.” “Remains” is the song whose words are not counted, but sung. What remains is “Let's smoke” and its equal." ( L. Ozerov . Poem and song . "Banner", #7-8).

And others:

Avramenko I. The night on the eve of immortality . Frontline poem. - L.

Azarov V. Leningrad . Poems. - L.

Aliger M. Zoya . Poem. - M.

Lyrics. - M.

Antokolsky P. Son . Poems and verses. - M.

Apushkin Ya. Poem about the great oath . - Frunze.

Asanov N. Angry Russia . Poem. - Molotov.

Akhmatova A. Selected poems . Comp. K. Zelinsky. - M.

Akhumyan T. Tales of Soviet heroes . Poetry. - Yerevan.

Barto A. Teenagers . Poetry. - M.

Conversation with dad. Adults about children . Poems and stories. - M.

Poor D. Unbreakable Confidence . Poems and fables. - M.

Berggolts O. Leningrad poem. - L.

Bohdanov P. In battle. - Alma-Ata.

Brazhnin I. War stories . - M.

Brown N. Military Spring . Poems and songs. - L.

Brusilovsky R. Second youth . - Ufa.

Vasiliev S. Field of Russian Glory . - M.

Verkhovsky Yu. It will be like this . Poetry. - Sverdlovsk.

Vurgun S. For happiness. Poetry. - Baku.

Vysotskaya O. Poems. - Sverdlovsk.

Gabrilovich E. Near Moscow . Tale. - M.

German Yu. Be happy! (Be happy!). From the diary of M. Lakhonina. - Arkhangelsk.

Gira L. The Word of Struggle . Poetry. - M.

Gladkov F. Burned soul . The poet. - M.

Fighter Nazar Suslov . - Penza.

Mother. Excerpt from the story. - Penza.

Gontar A. Campaign . Poetry. - Ufa

Grossman V. Stalingrad. September 1942-January 1943 . Essays. - M.

Direction of the main attack . - Omsk.

Battle of Stalingrad . - M.

The people are immortal . Tale. - M.

Gusev V. Poems. (1941-1942) . - M.

Dolmatovsky E. Steppe notebook . Poetry. - M.

Poems about Stalingrad . - M.

Druzhinin P. For the Motherland, brothers! Poems 1941-1942 . - Penza.

Military lyre. Poetry. - Penza.

Dudin M. Poems. 1940-1943 _ - M.

Eliseev L. When the weapon speaks . Front line poems. - Ufa.

Zakharchenko V. Blood of this land . Poetry. - M.

Zolotushkin A. Always with you . Poetry. - Tashkent.

Ivanov V. Matvey Kovalev . Chapters from the novel "Ilyich Avenue". - M.

Inber V. Soul of Leningrad . Poetry. - M.

Pulkovo meridian . Poem. - M.

Isakovsky M. Fracture of the pelvis. Poems and poems. - M.

Kaverin V. Stories. - M.

We have become different . Stories. - M.

Karavaeva A. Women are glorious masters . - Sverdlovsk.

Kassil L. Communication line . Stories. - M.

There are such people . Stories. - M.

With all my heart . Stories. - M.

Kataev V. War stories . - Kuibyshev.

Little stories . - Penza.

Katz Z. and Talalaevsky M. Stalingrad poems . - M.

Kezhun B. A story about a Russian hero . Poem. - B.M.

Red Army poems . - B.M.

Roads and peace. Poems and songs. - L.

Kim I. Heart and Sword. Poetry. - Ulan-Ude.

Kovalenkov A. Far in the North . Poetry. - M.

On a high wave . Poem. - B.M.

Kozhevnikov V. Measure of hardness . Stories. - M.

Kondyrev L. Brave heart . Poems and songs. - Novosibirsk.

Kochnev M. Anya . Poem. - Ivanovo.

Kulikovsky B. The Mukhin family . Poem. - Penza.

Lavrenev B. Feat . Stories. - M.

Portrait. Stories. - M.

Lebedev-Kumach V. Forward to victory ! Songs and poems. - M.

Levin K. Ghukas Kajarian at the front . Episodes in verse. - Yerevan.

Feat of Five . Stories. - M.

Lidin V. Earth. Stories. - M.

Simple life . Stories. - M.

Lifshits V. Shoulder to shoulder . Poems. - L.

A Million Brothers . Poetry. - L.

Lyutova V. The will to live. Poetry. - Yaroslavl.

Lvov M. The Ural is at war . Poetry. - Chelyabinsk.

Mariengof A. Poems of War . - Kirov.

Martynov L. Forward, for our Lukomorye . - Omsk.

Mikhalkov S. Mother . Poem. - Chelyabinsk.

Mishnev M. No step back! Poetry. - Kazan.

Molchanov-Sibirsky I. Yablonka. Poetry. - Irkutsk.

Murzidi K. Letters from friends . Poetry. - Sverdlovsk.

City in the Urals . Poetry. - Sverdlovsk.

Nagibin Yu. Soldier's soul. Story. - Magadan.

Nikulin L. Stories about partisans . - Chelyabinsk.

In the name of the Fatherland. Rassazy. - M.

The plane did not return to base . Stories. - M.

Osin D. That year was harsh . Poetry. - M.

Pavlovich N. Silk of victory. Poem. - Stalingrad.

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

Paustovsky K. Leningrad night . Stories. - M.

Perventsev A. Test. - Molotov.

Petrov A. Gennady Golenev . Poem. - Stavropol.

Platonov A. Stories about the Motherland . - M.

Armor. Stories. - M.

Under the skies of the Motherland . Stories. - Ufa.

Polevoy B. The Birth of the Epic . Feature article. - Alma-Ata.

Pomorsky A. Fire at the enemy ! Poems and songs. - Cheboksary.

Prishvin M. Forest drops. Sketches. - M.

Prokofiev A. Taran. Poetry. - L.

Front line poems . - L.

Rakov N. For the Motherland . Poetry. - Alma-Ata.

Reshetov A. Leningrad valor. Poetry. - L.

Rozhdestvensky V. Voice of the Motherland . Poems. - L.

Rylenkov N. Farewell to youth. Poetry. - M.

Blue wine. Poetry. - M.

Sashin Ya. By the enemy . Satirical poems. - Chelyabinsk.

Selvinsky I. Ballads and songs . - M.

Sergeev-Tsensky Brusilovsky breakthrough . Historical novel. - M.

Real people . Stories. - M.

Simonov K. Moscow. - Krasnoyarsk.

Russian heart . - M.

Poems. - L.

Front line poems . - M.

Poems. 1936-1942 . - M.

My land! Essays. - Krasnoyarsk.

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

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

Dreams of Aksinya Ivanovna . Stories. - Magadan.

Slavin L. My fellow countrymen . Tale. - Magadan.

Slonimsky M. Chairman of the City Council . Stories. - M.

Smerdov A. Sibiryak Taras Klinkov . Poetry. - Novosibirsk.

Sobolev L. Sea soul . Stories. - Krasnoyarsk.

Black Sea . Stories. - M.

Stewart E. Cities of the Future . Poetry. - Novosibirsk.

Surkov A. Three notebooks . War lyrics. 1934-1942. - M.

Song of the Brave . Poetry. - M.

Soldier's heart . Poetry. July-September 1942. - M.

Poems about Hate . - M.

Big war. Poetry. - M.

Offensive . Poetry. - M.

Thais Ya. Blood for blood . Poetry. - Penza.

Tvardovsky A. Vasily Terkin . A book about a fighter. Poem. - M.

Smolensk region . Poetry. - M.

Tikhonov N. Fighters of the fiery front . - L.

Kirov with moisture . A poem. - Yaroslavl.

Heroic defense of Leningrad . - M.

The Birth of the Guard . Heroic chronicle. - M.

A word about 28 guardsmen . Poem. - Magadan.

Red Army . Poems. - L.

Tolstoy A. Daredevils . - M.

Angry Russia . - Omsk.

Fedorov I. Front-line lyrics . - Penza.

Feoktistov S. Anger. Poetry. - Khabarovsk.

Chukovsky N. Stories of pilots - M.

Shefner V. Defense . Poems. - L.

Shchipachev S. Fatherland. Poetry. - M.

Noon. Poetry. - M.

Shishkov V. Proud surname . Stories. - M.

Sholokhov M. They Fought for the Motherland (chapters from the novel). - M.

Shubin P. In the name of life. Poems. - L.

Erberg O. Sniper. Stories. - M.

Ehrenburg I. The work of our hands . - Penza.

German. - M.

Bitterness . Artistic and journalistic collection. - M.

War. April 1942-March 1943. - M.

Poems about war . - M.

Margot . Stories. - M.

Freedom . Poems. - M.

Love to motherland . - M.

Your nest . Articles. - Baku.

Yashin A. City of Wrath . Stalingrad episodes (In verse). - M.

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