Samson Nazi. Five. Zhabotinsky V.E.

Vladimir (ZEEV) Zhabotinsky (1880–1940) - Russian and Jewish writer, brilliant prose writer, subtle poet, poisonous publicist and sensitive translator, one of the central figures of Zionism, the largest ideologist of the Jewish state. His literary work was extolled by Alexander Kuprin and Maxim Gorky, Korney Chukovsky was friends with him, who spoke about Zhabotinsky at the end of his life: “There was something in him from the Pushkin Mozart, and perhaps, from Pushkin himself. Even his enemies must admit. That he was grandiosely talented. ”

This collection includes the two most striking prosaic texts of Zhabotinsky, the novels of Samson Nazore (1926) and Five (1936). The novel “Samson Nazrai” is a hymn of freedom of freedom, a re -told and nourished the story of a biblical character, an imperfect and invincible hero of the era of judges. It would seem that the plot is known to everyone (Samson, tearing the mouth of a lion; Samson, who kills a thousand enemies of the donkey jaw; Samson and Dalila; Samson, triumphant over the Philistines), but Jabotinsky talks about what remains behind the scenes: about wisdom and anger, which slowly slowly Grow out from the human germination itself, and about the impossibility and inevitability of victory.

And in the novel “Five”, written based on the memoirs of Zhabotinsky about Odessa about the beginning of the 20th century, the frantic roar of history interferes with the quiet nostalgic sadness, the innocent hooligan of studios - with the underlying atrocious and disinterested revolutionary fervor, and the scary fun - and the backbone - with stoic doom. Here they respond to the uncontrollable vitality and the gloomy laughter of the “Odessa stories” of Babel, sometimes almost a children's pathos “lonely sail” Kataev, and sometimes even the elegance of a very distant and still close to Vilna goes to the distance. ” Alexandra Brushtein, however, the heroes of the “five” are no longer children, and therefore everything is more clear and fiercely in it. The foreboding of delightful and terrible changes on the verge of the death of the world.