118 исторических миниатюр и 108 авторских текстов на 13 иностранных языках. Сборник
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Someone passes through participation in military operations and through their description.
Someone gradually increases creative potential, aims to develop capabilities.
Probably, cooperation with publishing company "Znanie" also was for someone the road to literature...
But if - hypothetically imagine - a person who firmly decided to become a writer, without any organizational or governmental support, without the support of patrons or relatives, became a co-author or a sub-coauthor of a great writer, - then this resolute and persistent person - becoming a co-author - entered the literature.
He does not become "friend", "drinking companion", "bootlicker", "footman"... He, I will add, does not try to become permanent "speechwriter" ("writer of literary sketches"). What for? He resolved to become a writer. He uses the force the mind. He makes subject sketches and writes letters.
He waits! Waits, waits and waits.
He uses organizational opportunities of the post service. And he - is a coauthor (sub-coauthor) of the great writer. He confidently entered the literature.
I am surprised to variety of this world and those ways which creative energy is opening for itself.
I switch, dear Ivan Alekseyevich, to other reflections on the of Jack London's literary career.
Let's move on, dear Ivan Alekseyevich, to a higher level of generalizations. Kindness. Kind person. His defenselessness. His fate. Bitterness. Anger.
One of heads of construction of the extraordinary house so remembered about Jack London: "Jack was the best of people. I have not met anyone more humane. He was kind with all, you will never see him without smile. He was a real democrat, noble person, gentleman; he loved family, he respected the workers". The same approximately estimates in memoirs of other people.
The kind person approximately in 1913, apparently, in a minute of psychological depression, at the moment of exasperation writes in one of letters to one of addressees: "Will burst a thunder, and then you'll have to beg not one day a forgiveness and to bow before the whole world; and when you will become ashes, echoes of this thunderstorm will reach those who are not now born, and you will make the coup - into your coffins".
Is it possible for me , dear Ivan Alekseyevich, to ask you what you think of kindness, of defenselessness, and of the fate of an abstract kind man, what you think of bitterness, anger ... These questions may be sound as na"ive: eternal themes. Nevertheless, if there is a mood, write me about them...
I returning, dear Ivan Alekseyevich, to one of formulations of subjects of my letter: "to write and work and to act or refrain from writing and working and action?".
There will be time, write Your answer, expound Your reflections.
Your Maxim Gorky (Alexei Peshkov)."
After reading the text of the letter, Gorky meditated some moments.
– Eternal themes!
– he said.
Having sighed, he wrote on a top margin of the first page of the letter: "The drafts!".
Gorky returned to giving out the books to readers of the Caf'e-Library.
– What author, what book are interesting for you ? Again Jack London? We have in the catalog a section "American Literature". You can choose to yourself more authors.
He clarified the words, been heard from the reader:
– A little later? Do you plan then - Dreiser? And now you want to - Jack London? But yet after reading, look the catalog ...
May 13, 2017.
Phased translation from Russian into English. Supplementation of translated text, amendment: 28 October 2017 10:19, 28 October 2017 19:00, 29 October 2017 03:13, 29 October 2017 08:55, 29 October 2017 13:17, 29 October 2017 16:12, 29 October 2017 19:37.
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XXXVII. Fortellingen om den usendte brev. Av Maksim Gorkij til Ivan Bunin
Fortellingen om den usendte brev. Av Maksim Gorkij til Ivan Bunin
(Eksperimentell oversettelse fra russisk til norsk)
M. Gorky besluttet a re-lese teksten i brevet. Her er hva ble skrevet der:
"Kjaere Ivan Aleksejevitsj!
Ofte tenker jeg pa Deg. Om oss.
I dag i Cafe-biblioteket Jeg snakket med Jack London.
I dag skal jeg skrive til Deg brevet. Om hva?
Ja ikke sa er viktig.
Med et smil og en spok, jeg si: "Om alt!"
Vil snakke med deg, om enn i absentia. Husker du vart bekjent ar 1899? Begynnelsen av vart samarbeid i forlaget "Kunnskap"? Jeg haper du ikke var skuffet. Haper "Kunnskap" (publishing company "Znanie") - ledet med meg - du kan ikke skylde for skadelige handlinger. Det var en god tid!
Men i henhold til epistolary disiplin, vil jeg avklare.
Dette brevet er om forfattere kreativitet, om kreative samarbeid, en litteraere suksess, om valg av: "skrive og handle, enten a avsta fra handlingen og litteraere etableringen".
Husk, Ivan Aleksejevitsj, en av episodene av studie av Gogol i Nizjyn Gymnasium. Nikolaj Vasiljevitsj ga til laerer professor Parfeny Nikolskij pa en av leksjonene dikt "Profeten" (forfatter - Aleksandr Pusjkin) .Nikolskij kom fra presteskapet. Var forfatter. Visste verk av mange poeter, forfattere, men Pushkin verker har ikke lest. Nikolskij lese... grimaced og begynte redigere den teksten. Nikolsky returnerte dikt imaginaere forfatter, dvs Gogol.
Nikolsky ydmyket ham for hans mangel pa flid.