ANATOMY OF HERO
Svidrigailov Limon (instead of answering Delphinidae )
write derogatory column address Eduard Limonov - it is like to scoff at the dead man or pettifog with the character of a literary work. Comparing it with Svidrigailov, Brodsky was not trying to omit Limonov. He only said that Limonov - the mythological figure.
Once a respected literary critic respected literary newspaper threw cry in my LJ. "People, readers, writers, publicists! - He asked. - What do you think of how in our time must be literary hero, and what in general should be literature? Write about it in our newspaper! »
theme struck me as amusing. Wondering about how to get to to start, I decided to resort to the old test means: divination by books. Took from the bookcase the first available (caught Eduard Limonov, "In captivity from the dead "- a text written during his release in 2001) and opened it at random. Glance immediately fell on the following lines.
«investigator Shishkin, a hypocrite stressed many times stated that he did not read my books. They are all excellent read! "Anatomy of a Hero" was required reading thick operative Captain Edward Vadimovich, he was recognized by the arrest in the Altai. To a large extent, they arrested me for my book. "
As such, the prison labor Lemons repeatedly attempts to understand how and why he ended up behind bars. And every time inevitably looped back on arguments about writing. Senses, from wind ...
Hero lyrics Limonov - always himself. And he himself - the hero of his texts. The text Limonov no doubt good, and Lemons - a great writer. And make it so, not only and not so much a writer's gift, how much of the fact that he had his works not only wrote, but first loses them in life. All this his politics, novels with gloss and transnational gay bohemians, all his postures, gestures, and sometimes absurd - no more (and less) as an excuse. Opportunity and means to let go of his character, give him a field of activity - environment, space, air. And only then starts the routine: skills, letters, hardcover. Such is his creative method.
In April 2007, the Eduard Limonov seized a typewriter and a lamp - in payment of compensation moral damage it, according to a court decision has caused Mayor Luzhkov, something he said about him on the radio. Computer from Edward Veniaminovich not (yes he does not know how to use it), and the typewriter was the only means by which a writer can earn. So he gathered the will in a fist and through the Basmanny Court typewriter myself back. Result? Great skit. Oak and the Calf.
Next - interesting. Being obliged to pay Luzhkov half a million rubles, Lemons asked the court to allow him to pay monthly for 10 thousand rubles. But the mayor of this installment did not work. The Mayor (through Court) maintained at 50 thousand per month. At the same time Limonov evicted from a rented apartment, which for him again, nullifying the opportunity to earn and pay the money. Lemons cries out: "This is absurd: millionaire sues man who has all the property at 14 000 850 rubles. It's a shame. " And filed a lawsuit in Strasbourg, arguing that the court violated the 10 th article of the Convention on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (freedom of expression).
Shall I Limonov, a small man In this his new literary work? Of course. Yet how small. But, unlike Bashmachkin, the modern young man erupted teeth. It has grown slightly.
Assume, however, that we do not really like Limonov's literary hero, the eternal teenager Savenko ... And we want some other hero. Such does not exist. But that would be worth inventing. Here a question: whether to even talk about how it should be, this hero? I think it is not necessary. Has no special meaning.
First of all: the literary hero at all. He has always been invented. And just in case he becomes a hero and a general reader's interest. The hero touches precisely because it is perfect and only hypothetically possible, but - not real, is not realized. He acts out there, in a fictional world, and only thanks to this through a thin boundary penetrates into our world, influencing him to change it and shaping it. If literary hero was a real person living in the real world, he would have no effect. He just would weaken and crumbled. Not as Bashmachkin, but as a complete nothing. He simply did not make to the reader the slightest impression. In the best case would be entertained (as entertain the reader and minaevskie Robsky characters). But this is not the same effect. We're talking about literature, not about show business?
So, "regular, real person as a literary hero," the reader is uninteresting. Or interesting superficially in minaevski (revered and forgot). Because that this hero will be no more than one of the readers. And readers are not interested in each other, or at least, not so much for each other is important to produce each other the impression (and each other to change) ... It's like a reality TV show "Dom-2" on television - saw spat switched.
Did not Akaky one of the readers? Not a real person? None. We can confidently assert that never in real life, there was no such person. And why is this image so strong. The same can be said of all the heroes of the great Russian literature.
And what about lemon? The same thing ... It does not exist. This action is not a real person: is the fate of young people believed him, sits in jail, wrote in glossy magazines and in conflict with the government. This is a character. Just then there was a palindrome: a hero from the very beginning of the transition line between literature and life, and then goes back to the literature and recorded in another book. But from the relocation of these alchemical terms the result is not changed ... Hero Savenko exactly the same effect on the world exclusively through its deliberate unreality, fabulousness, epic. It is ideal, he penned, he just looks like a real ... And so it is stronger than reality and is able to affect her and her form.
In principle, the same could have been said about any other hero, for he is a hero to be contrasted reality and at the same time working on it. Lemons just under the arm was caught (by divination), but could get caught and some of the Tatar «Generation M" and Turgenev's Bazarov, and Pushkin Dubrovsky. AND Svidrigailov. And no matter by what time this had fallen from the bookcase hero belonged: only to a certain extent depends on the nature of the literary hero of mores of the time, which he happened to be born. But it is not the time or do not like the hero gives his soul. Spirit of the times, maybe a hero equips the body, flesh, clothing. But the main literary heroes are not this dense shell (and to her, to close this shell, and morals are, after all).
in this (not minaevskih) Heroes is much more important soul. Actually, this is clean, get rid of the signs of time immortal substance and makes heroes forever. And do not belong to one or another time and do not attempt to writers to create their characters, to answer any there current challenges and issues. Even if such attempts by Gogol, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy were, their heroes were born and held as heroes rather in spite of these attempts, and not because of them.
a word, no matter what will be the hero. Whatever it No matter - it will be a hero, not a man. And this is important. Therefore, I think you need to look no hero. Task for any writer and any reader - to look for the point at which man becomes a hero, and ceases to be a man. And in which the hero is transformed into a man and becomes one of us. Transition point between the literature and life. The boundary between these two dimensions. And finding it, we (readers and writers) can do wonders.
PS The text was never published in a reputable Literary Gazette. Because Limonov is displayed with a certain tinge of complementarity ("great writer") and even Luzhkov was then the mayor of ...
PPS Comparing with Limonov Svidrigailov, Brodsky was not trying to omit Limonov. He only said that Limonov - the mythological figure. Known to the literary, type. And at the same time, like any true literary hero, he was - totally alive and free (though not quite human). Just like Svidrigailov .
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