Аннотация: Scarlet Sails. The salvation of the intelligentsia, organized by Maxim Gorky. An essay.
Scarlet Sails. The salvation of the intelligentsia, organized by Maxim Gorky. An essay.
"Scarlet sails" are pleasant words. However, this is such a tradition - to pronounce more of pleasant words and less of unpleasant... Well, if the meaning of the spoken words is clearly understood ...
Scarlet Sails is a work by Alexander Grin, written in 1923.
It was a time when the power in the literary world was appropriated by effective managers and literary prankers of that time - figures of the so-called Proletcult.
Most of the writers were pushed beyond the peculiar border of legality - their creative fate was in question.
Some disappeared unnoticed. Others - with a certain resonance.
However, the supreme managers, who came to power, and who set the goal of creating a new economy, - they needed people with some volume of culture, people, differing in level from intellectual cretins, moral scumbags and primitive criminals.
To reserve cultural traditions , Maxim Gorky was called up from Italy. Maxim Gorky put forward, in particular, the concept of a writing association - the Writers' Union (a privileged intellectual social stratum in the then USSR).
By conviction or by coincidence, Alexander Green did not fit into the scheme conceived and executed by Maxim Gorky. This is regrettable. Without Gorky's efforts, the fate that befell Alexander Green was waiting for the vast majority of the writers of that time.
But when today they recall the "Scarlet Sails", there is reason to recall about the economical destroying of a middle class, about the slowly but surely disappearing scientific, scientific-technical, technical intelligentsia, the direct, instant, quick and shameless elimination of the supervising and intellectual intellectuals (of service of foresters)...
[MCCXСV. The First Congress of Soviet Writers. A literary and historical note
MCCСVI. Russian Association of Proletarian Writers and a literature. A literary and historical note.]
June 27, 2020 10:31
Translation from Russian into English: June 27, 2020 13:03.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Алые паруса и спасение интеллигенции Максимом Горьким. Очерк".