“To look at yourself through the prism of someone else’s life”

Leonid Krol read for us the book of Dmitry Bykov “Boris Pasternak”.

“Brilliant Pasternak” Dmitry Bykov is a documented, reliable, detailed book that reports his author almost more than about his hero. Having taken up such a global theme as the biography of the great poet, the bulls who are accustomed to be in the spotlight, as if a kind of psychological training takes place, which allows you to look at yourself through the prism of someone else’s life, to move away from momentary concerns and free yourself from stupid fuss, which is free or free or free orno – abounds him (and not only him – our!) life.

The desire to reflect in the mirror of Pasternak fate seems to play a special role for the author. Plunging in the vicissitudes of his biography, Bykov seems to taste various options for the implementation of creative principle, explores different possibilities of confrontation with the temptations of life, and most importantly – ways of surviving personality in society. And in this capacity, Pasternak’s figure, with his aggravated sense of life, with a tragic sense of limb of being, with constant haste and sudden outbursts of hope, is unusually related to Bykov is close.

Turning to the fate of Boris Leonidovich, his biographer is practiced in the spiritual asuzkes, the essence of which is to write about himself, but about others. That is why there are so many second -plan heroes in the book – friends, lovers, enemies and just contemporaries of the poet, who appear through the darkness of non -being, gain flesh, and then dissolve in the shadows again.

Thus, Bykov not only looks at the real people, but also lives in the beat of their hearts and cares.

So it seems that, concentrating on other people’s fate, looking for parallels with his own in them, Dmitry Bykov deliberately achieves internal goals, to strive for which almost every thinking person is characteristic of: to achieve clarity and uncompetitiveness, to find the opportunity to calmly realize what excites what excitesit is in reality. Not allowing himself to openly speak out on the eternal and slightly banal topics that are interested in him – “how the soul is arranged”, “how to survive in the surrounding rudeness” (namely, in my opinion, they are central in his book), he creates a platform where everything is about everythingThis can be said in the language of metaphors and symbols, thereby again approaching his hero, equally sought to “be like everyone else” and find “face of a non -dual expression”.

About the author of the book

Dmitry Bykov – journalist, poet, prose writer, TV presenter. The author of five poetic collections, four novels, several collections of journalism. “Boris Pasternak” – the first experience of Bykov in the field of biographical prose – was awarded the Big Book Award for 2006. The first detailed biography of one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. Authoritative study that recreates the artist’s internal appearance against the background of the era that gave rise to him. Young Guard, 896 from.