Cool route. Ginzburg E.

Evgenia Ginzburg, a historian and journalist, the mother of the famous writer Vasily Aksenov, was repressed in 1937, spent ten years in prisons and Kolyma camps and eight years in the Magadan exile, and in 1955 her case was discontinued for the lack of corpus delicti. But even in the time of the thaw, the autobiographical novel “The Cool Route”, in which Ginzburg spoke about its terrible fate, could not reach the USSR: it was published only during the years of perestroika, becoming one of the most famous certificates of the crimes of the Stalinist regime - and Ginzburg, which is, which Before the arrest, she was a faithful adherent of the communist teaching, does not take off his guilt for what was happening.

The ability to restrained, but psychologically accurately convey the sensations of “madness and horror”, hopes and complete despair, to truthfully show scenes of cruelty and self -sacrifice, manifestations of cowardice and courage - all this allows you to call a “steep route” outstanding literary work. The main value of the novel is that he teaches to maintain courage and dignity, helps to get rid of “great fear”, which is able to destroy both the fate and the life of the whole generation.