Аннотация: Gorky, Paustovsky and Suslov. A story about the secrets of literary creativity.
Gorky, Paustovsky and Suslov. A story about the secrets of literary creativity.
Mikhail Andreevich, as a communist ideologist, on duty, read books by contemporary writers.
The encyclopedia says that Paustovsky was born in the family of a railway engineer.
However, an anonymous letter arrived, which refers to the origin and upbringing of Paustovsky ...
It is unpleasant.
Yesterday the Central Committee received materials from the Writers' Union with a proposal to publish several books by Paustovsky, award him a State Prize and give him an order (medal).
Some person of foreign origin does the efforts - he offers to give Paustovsky the Nobel Prize.
What can to happen?...
The assistant prepared for Mikhail Andreevich several books written by Paustovsky.
"I will read ...".
Golden Rose.
... the fate of the Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker ...
...he worried about the enslaved Javanese...
This is good. We, Soviet people, are against colonialism.
The Dutch imperialists created obstacles to the writer Eduard Dekker: they acquired copyright from the writer and made Dekker's books inaccessible to ordinary people ...
Ingeniously done ... Maybe from Solzhenitsyn to acquire the rights to the "Gulag Archipelago"? No, this recipe is not suitable for our conditions... We will do differently... We are not Dutch imperialists...
How much did these Dutch imperialists pay Dekker? Paustovsky has not a word about this. This is right.
Mikhail Andreevich looked into the biographical information about Paustovsky. Fame came to Paustovsky after the story "Kara-Bugaz" ...
So... What does he write about this book in his memoirs? He found money for the trip, went, looked, spent for writing several months, prepared a book. About the publishing house - almost nothing. He doesn't say anything about the fee. About admission to the Union of Writers, too - nothing ...
A knight does not write for money, he submits to higher ideas...
Where is the education of devotion to the Communist Party and the Soviet state? Are knightness and romanticism necessary for the participants in the events in Novocherkassk?
On the other hand, to participate the events in Novocherkassk, you can find those who do not read books. And the Soviet youth must be encouraged to education, to healthy habits (so that they drink less vodka and do not beat each other - and children - when they return home after work, so that those seized by romance go to virgin lands and to the taiga ...).
For now, he can be allowed to exist ...
What does Paustovsky write about his conversation with Maxim Gorky?
"- Precisely said," - Gorky remarked. - "Who are you - a prose writer or a poet? Perhaps a poet."
He put his big hand on my shoulder and pressed it lightly.
"- Go ahead! Live the way you started. The devil won't put you in trouble, the pig will not eat."
On an anonymous letter, Mikhail Andreevich wrote a resolution: "Let's take as a base the opinion of Maxim Gorky about Paustovsky. Accept the proposals of the Union of Writers. But with the premium - for now - to suspend the process .... ".
(Gorky created them a comfortable conditions and a good life...).
Mikhail Andreevich recited aloud verses from Paustovsky's book:
"Believing in simple words,
In slanting winds from bird wings
A seeing-eye man of all of Russia
He led a fairy tale by the hand ... ".
Now it's necessary to edit the draft resolution of the Central Committee on questions of ideology ...
June 3, 2022 11:52
Translation from Russian into English: June 3, 2022 13:03.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Паустовский и Суслов. Рассказ о тайнах литературного творчества".
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