Native speech. Vile P.L., Genis A.A.

“Read the main books of Russian literature - how to revise your biography again. Life experience accumulated along with reading and thanks to him... We are growing with books - they grow in us. And once the riot is coming against the attitude of the classic in childhood, ”wrote Peter Vail and Alexander Genis in the preface to the very first edition of his“ native speech. ”

The authors who emigrated from the USSR created In a foreign land, a book, which soon became a real, albeit a little playful, monument to the Soviet school literature textbook. We have not yet forgotten how successfully these textbooks were forever repelled from schoolchildren every taste for reading, instilling them a persistent aversion to Russian classics. The authors of the "native speech" tried again to arouse interest in the unfortunate children (and their parents) of interest in domestic elegant literature. It seems that the attempt was crowned with complete success. Vitrous and exciting “anti -Health” Vail and Genis has been helping graduates and applicants for many years to take exams in Russian literature.