Chamber lyrics. Shalamov V.T., Bykov D.L., Circle M.

Folk wisdom teaches: "Do not say from prison from Suma." How many great for their freedom -loving dissent have been in exiles and even in prisons? Immediately recall the times of Ivan the Terrible, Boris Godunov, and the image of Protopop Avvakum, and Alexander Pushkin in Mikhailovsky, Odessa and Fedor Dostoevsky, sentenced to death... And then it turned out that they were just a hundred years ahead of their time. And how many with impunity, by reservation or slander, were they in imprisonment? It is no coincidence that these topics are found in folk songs. Yes, and the classics did not bypass: everyone knows the famous Pushkinskoye “I sit behind bars in dungeon of raw” and Lermontovskoye “Open me a dungeon..”

“The number of their incredible - from lines of folk songs from time immemorial before Modern poems, poets who before prison did not assume that they were poets. - writes in the preface in this book Naum him. -.. may, published and widespread, will do what we all are not able to do - make our prison human. Ordinary... Let them play video games and football there, let them conduct culinary courses and classes in psychology there. Let the prisoners are engaged in things that will be useful to them in the wild, and may none of these prisoners even even think of knocking their thoughts and experiences into the slender lines of poetic lines... ”

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