Miroslav Nemirov. All about poetry 84

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Among other glorified jokes and jokes of Stalin I.V. There is a phrase that he once wrote in the fields of the poem (namely poems - in verses!) M. Gorky "Girl and Death": "This thing is stronger than Faust Goethe!" . Further will be a reasoning about some considerations arising from this.

So, this remark is a rather amazing remark.

Firstly, it is surprising in it that it follows from him that Stalin I. probably read the indicated “Faust” by Goethe or at least knew about the existence and approximate content of this work. It is amazing here if you look at the post -war Soviet leaders, from Khrushchev and Brezhnev to Yeltsyn and Chernomyrdin - these, as you look, is so clear that the last thing they read in life is the book of Pinocchio in the fourth grade, and it is quite possible that there is no: why read it if there is a movie.

Secondly, this is surprising, here it is not only in Stalin I.V. And in the Soviet regime in general: she loved fiction very much.

And - imposed it on her people. He contained a whole union of writers who fattened. I published books with its huge circulations and gave the population at ridiculous prices. Forced all her citizens to study in the school of Tolstoy , Chekhov , Pushkin , Turgenev and so on. And contained a huge number of teachers who forced this literature to teach, and paid them a salary, and spent a huge amount of time, effort and money on this training: the salary of literature teachers - preparing them in institutes - construction, heating, schools - salary of a bunch of literary critics, who all tried to give black for white and prove that Pushkin and Chekhov were a mountain for the future Soviet.

The people, frankly, did not give a damn about Chekhov and Belinsky , and even more so on the "Faust" of Goethe . He did not know them and voluntarily read them and would never have been interested.

Here's the question: why?

Why spend the huge money, time and effort - to force Vasya Petrov, the son of a locksmith and a future locksmith, to know what Belinsky thought about the image of Tatyana Larina - meanwhile, he was not needed for FIG, and never in life was no longer useful - neither Belinsky, nor the image of Tatyana Larina.

And - they spent both the strength and means, and forced him to know this, and at least seven, and then for ten years he was tormented and tormented by force, and put him deuces, if they did not know, and they shaved, and called his parents to the pedagogical council.

This is amazing.

What, the Communists had nowhere to put money? Money, time and labor resources? Moreover, by the way, all literature is seducted, and the Russian classic is already without any doubt.

To shed the masses? Funny thesis. It is much easier to wrap the masses with a swan-kumach and a poor demyan than Pushkin , Chekhov or at least Mayakovsky ; Moreover, the masses are much easier and more effective when they have no habit of reading thick books than when they have such a habit.

The example of America is the best example: they don’t read novels there, classic - even more so, and - everything is fine: the masses are satisfied, and the authorities are calm, and everything shines and flourishes.

Meanwhile, it was much easier - everything was completely burned with books, all the Pushkin and Tolstoy, and no one would have regretted it. To completely burn, to leave 15 authors, led by Demyan Poor Demyan - well, one institution of agitation and propaganda and plus, for popular entertainment - for the people want to have fun - another 15 composers and authors of songs - Dunaevsky and Lebedev -Kumach. And there would be - grace.

Firstly, no skewers, everything is under control.

Secondly, a wild amount of labor and all other resources is released.

The same schoolchildren - tens of millions! - What to sit at a desk to sit at the same time, at the same time, it could be better to study the lattice of a lathe, and even better - right on the same machine, they are in the factory at the factory.

Millions of teachers, literary critics, and Soviet writers would be the same.

They learned to read -write -read - these are, of course, the necessary skills in the conditions of modern technology - both ready and to the machine. In the process of primary learning to distinguish especially smart ones - five per class - to teach them further, physics, chemistry and mathematics - this is also necessary to make the same machines, tanks, aircraft, and there is an atomic bomb.

But - the image of Tatyana Larina why? !! Huge money - and the benefits are full of zero, one harm.

Secret.

But the Soviet government, with a terrible force inherent in it, spent frantic money on the shutdown into the head of her people of this image and achieved its own: imposed a culture of overthrown and destroyed exploiting classes to its people. The classes - destroyed, and their culture - imposed by force to classes, former lower ones and which she did not need FIG, they had enough Talyanka and films.

And here are the results:

1) Now every Soviet person, reading a book or watching a movie about the 19th century, associates himself not with peasants at all, but with Pushkin, which is extremely harmful to the same power - they begin to imagine a lot about themselves;

2) A whole layer of the Soviet humanitarian - "creative" - ​​intelligentsia, permanent carriers of Kramola, who eventually overthrew, was created.

For what? For what?! For what ?!!

Mystery.

"Complete death seriously"

Oh, I would know that it happens
When I settled on the debut!
That the lines with blood are killed:
They will flood the throat - and kill.

From jokes with this background
I would refuse flatly.
The beginning was so far away
So timid is the first interest.

But old age is Rome that
In return Turusov and wheels
Does not require a reading from an actor,
And complete death seriously.

When the line dictates the feeling
It sends a slave to the stage.
And then art ends,
Here the soil and fate are breathing.

The poem is textbook, but wrong. And not just incorrect, but also - bad. Dishonest:

"Oh, I would know!"

And then I did not know!

Neither about Pushkin , nor about Lermontov , nor about Edgar Po , Baudelaire , etc. and so on, about life and fate, etc. etc. I didn’t hear, but there was, they say, an innocent golden-haired boy Seryozha from the village of K. And I thought: you only need to get in the Union of Writers, and there the rest of life will be solid pies and dumplings, beer, women, cigarettes.

I doubt.

And even more: of course, I know that this is not so.

So - Boris Leonidovich wrote a lie, raised for a red word.

And a lie, moreover, is not good, dishonest.