In the laboratory of the editor. Chukovskaya L.

“In the Laboratory of the Editor” is one of the three most important books devoted to the purity and wealth of the Russian language (two others: “The Word Living and Dead” Nora Gal and the “High Art” of Korney Chukovsky). In her book, Lidia Chukovskaya shares his experience in the legendary edition of Detgiz, recalls great modern writers, talks about the principles of creating and designing the text, about editorial censorship, widespread in Soviet times. According to the author: “This book is not a textbook on editing. I do not set learning tasks for myself, and it is unlikely that the mastering of art can serve as any textbook to any extent. The task of the book is different: I just wanted to figure out the experience I accumulated and my closest comrades, to collect and summarize it, to introduce the reader into the circle of those thoughts, the anxieties and questions that I had to run into for three decades of literary work. ”