Streltsov

There is something deeply symbolic in the fact that the first thorough biography of Eduard Streltsov saw the light in the unfading series “ZhZL”. After all, the famous library of biographies with an indispensable burning torch on the binding of the same bright symbol of the forever departed era, the sign of Soviet Atlantis, as well as the very name of the great football player of the Moscow Torpedo and the Union team. He collected many thousands of stadiums in the late 50s - at the time of the highest heyday of domestic football, when the field was least felt in the personalities. The inspired memories of the fans with an experience of a brilliant striker-wonderkind with causing cocoal dudes can still be heard on empty years and stands with aggression of the stands.

The book of one of our best sports writers, Alexander Nilin, is essentially the same inspired memory of the legend of Sagittarius in life. The author lovingly calls him about the fascinating magic of the game and the tragic vicissitudes of the fate of Edik, as he, following the fan brother. Nilin met Streltsov in the mid-60s, it was the time of his triumphal return to football after five years of camps.

The epic with condemning the recognized sexwall of the country (the same country, in which, as it became known a little later, “no sex”) for rape in the book a lot of space is given. The author is in no hurry to pounce with reproaches on a non -battered young idol (at the time of the crime he was 20 years old), as well as not inclined, unlike post -perestroika exposure to see the KGB ominous hand in this whole story. The situation seems to him from today's “far” more existential: for shy liberalism of the Khrushchev’s “thaw”, Sagittarius was too free the personality.

Long and thorough conversations of the author with his hero - half an interview, semi -sidelines 1 gave the book a special, confidence -house intonation. At the same time, the author not only reconstructs the “stupidly lived life of Edik,” but enters it into the context of the time when we had more football than the game. Alexander A. Vyslov “Beatles”, and just a lonely girl, who did not cope with children's insults and complexes. In addition, the “butterfly” has a happy finale: after a break with Aiko, Jim met his love Alice. When reading this book, a strange feeling does not leave that you are eavesdropping through a sincere conversation of a cured hero with his former doctor - so selflessly, in a simple language and a little naive story is kept. In addition to a rather unusual portrait of young Yoko, it is such a non -modern manner of narrative and is perhaps the most important value of the “butterfly”. Alexander Changsev we are dealing with the classic of a “specific verbal”. Poems scattered in almanacs, magazines and anthologies of many European countries formed in the book an integral image of the world, this, as you expect from the poet, is extremely subjective.

Years passed. Alexander Yuryevich staggered and published a second book - “Nevertheless,” thereby allowing to know that he does not intend to give his position under the onslaught of a huge number of fashionable literary movements that have been bred over the years. At the same time, he looks at what is happening in the workshop with great perplexity: alas, I am also a contemporary as this requires the aesthetics of minimalism, there are almost no epithets in these verses. Not only "thunderbings." Any. The author’s intonation is quite clearly transmitted with the help of seemingly absolutely unemotional pronouns, adverbs, prepositions.

So it is so somehow even not even the SOR, from which, as Akhmatova claimed, "poems grow, not knowing shame." And, perhaps, molecules, elementary particles. Nevertheless, the Makarov cord, using the component so ineffective from the point of view of classical Russian poetry, manages to build its poetic space, in which there is everything necessary for the existence of a lyrical hero. Vladimir Tuchkov "Amphora" invites all fans