Опубликовано Галина Рылькова в Статьи | Нет комментариев
В статье рассматриваются особенности биографического письма вообще, а также то, как менялся и меняется образ Анны Ахматовой в соответсвии с духом времени. In April 1966, one month after Anna Akhmatova’s death, a minor literary critic, M. Busin, accused Soviet censorship of inflicting permanent damage on Akhmatova’s poetic legacy. We certainly don’t know Akhmatova’s poetic legacy in its entirety. The fine mesh of the [Communist] Party censorship sieve has let through only some of its pitiful crumbs. Some of her legacy has reached us by roundabout ways. A lot of it, however, has undoubtedly been lost irrevocably. What the late poet’s friends manage to preserve from the party-driven vandalism will become fully known to us only after the seeds of the future free and noble Russia that she sowed sprout and communist despotism disintegrates into ashes. By the early 2000s, Busin’s dreams had come true beyond his wildest expectations. As it turns out, the disgraced Communists did not sink into ignominy alone. They also managed to drag down with them such seemingly indestructible constructs as the Russian Silver Age and one of its major constituent parts—the Akhmatova institution.2 Since perestroika, Akhmatova’s legacy has not only been successfully recovered, rediscovered, studied, and carefully stored for posterity in multivolume collections of her works of poetry and prose, in literary museums, and in numerous books of memoirs but also subjected to scrutiny and rigorous reconceptualization....
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