The biography of the reader

Yu Rusova. Natalya Yuryevna! You have found such an exquisite technique of your biography that I have not met with anyone: to show your life and all our time through the books read. After all, we were indeed the most reading country, and we were formed and brought up books. Each of our generation could say as Gorky: "I owe all the good books to all of myself." The second feeling: envy, the most black and nasty envy - why not I wrote this book!

After all, most of the books that you mention, I read, and just like you, they had their beneficial effect. And when I met the name of Alexandra Brushtein, I told myself - our man! So always my husband spoke about people who were close to him almost in a kind of inherent .. Third feeling - deep nostalgia for childhood and youth, in his youth. How much they read then - and read the good!

In the children's library, I re-read the whole Min-Rida and Fenimora Cooper, all the science fiction, from the 5th grade I read Pushkin everything in a row, I liked Onegin very much. As you gratefully noted the role of the personality of the teacher and parents! Dad read Balzak, Gogol aloud to us - well, what he liked. Mom knew a lot by heart .. books were bought, at first there was a bookcase, then cabinets ..

I read not everything that would be recommended for children. But the "ladies' happiness" of Zola and "Jen Air" is for me the guiding threads in life. My teacher, seeing my love of literature and young poetry, gave me good books, developed me. As for the second - the majority, then the main thing is my sensation - a complex of inferiority. Firstly, the number of books you read is completely inconsistent with my luggage.

Probably because I read, in addition to studying at the philological faculty, mainly for pleasure or out of curiosity, and something is just by chance. You have your own reading system: you liked the author - and you read everything that he wrote. Therefore, you can completely analyze the work of each author with a clear conscience and professional views.

Secondly, I can’t attribute myself to literary critics, but it seemed to me that since I was writing works at five at school, I could say something about the work. But as you - briefly, lapidarly can be bought and dropped, probably, probably, to professional critics. Thirdly, it causes respect, bordering your independence of assessments of what is happening. You express your point of view - often paradoxical - calmly and boldly.

It is customary to scold someone-you praise someone on the contrary. This applies not only to books, but also to changes in the country, personalities of not only writers, but also politicians. I am surprised, but I agree! And again, with joy, I met the names of my favorite authors in the book, just like a password in a common spiritual space! As you wrote correctly, you cannot cover all the literature.

Therefore, each of your reader has a list of your favorite authors besides you mentioned. During reading, I constantly remembered Pushkin - “Farewell, friends! Well, amazing, what our generation is breathing in the same air of Russian culture. Thank you for the book that you wrote, well, as if on behalf of our whole literary expression in your expression! Lyudmila Ladanova.