Living as life. About Russian. Chukovsky K.I.

Korney Chukovsky always “thought about the language” and wrote about him - as a literary critic (characterizing the language of art works) and as a children's writer (listening to the language of children). Analyzing the imaginary and genuine diseases of the language, Chukovsky came to the conclusion that the main trouble is the dominance of bureaucratic, stationery.

For this disease, he came up with the word “chancellorite”, which entered the language, like other words invented by him: “Aibolite”, “Moydodyr”. The book is addressed to a wide range of readers, to all those who think about the ways of developing the Russian language.