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For more than forty years (from 1942 to 1986) Yuri Markovich kept a diary. Shortly before his death, the writer personally gave it for publication, explaining that "the perfect sincerity and ruthlessness of this half-diary-half-memoirs may interest other people, because they help self-knowledge." Initially, Nagibin wrote a diary only for himself. “This is a conversation with oneself, face to face,” the author admitted, “sometimes an attempt to understand one’s own painful spiritual life, sometimes just a sob, and this is sometimes necessary.” That is why his real non-fictional life is the most exciting story.
“Most of my notes are purely personal,” says the author, “and for a long time I doubted whether it was worth publishing them, especially during my lifetime. After all, this is a conversation with oneself, what does it matter to readers. <...> My diary sometimes turns into memoirs, because it happened that I wrote not on a fresh trail, but on the recollections, albeit not too old, of events. Sometimes I set the dates, sometimes I forgot about it. Occasionally, I discovered this only now, reprinting the manuscript, events are reversed: later ones are ahead of those that happened earlier. I did not put things in order, build and edit the text, this would deprive the diary of immediacy and authenticity, in which I see it, perhaps, its only merit. The reader cannot but feel that there is no literary calculation, no idea of realization, that he is dealing with the incorruptible truth of experience. I wrote not out of a duty I had assumed, but out of an emotional compulsion. My recordings are first of all an impulse to an outlet. I grabbed my notebook when I felt that I did not have enough air, and in order not to suffocate, I splashed out the experience on pages that, apart from me, which I was sure no one would see. This is both the strength and the weakness of my book. Strength lies in sincerity, weakness lies in the fact that many important things remain outside of it, because I am so strangely arranged that things that are objectively significant often almost, if not completely, touch me ...
In fifty-five years of professional writing I have acquired readers who have remained faithful to me even in our unfavorable times for literature. My books still sell out, whether the publisher gives thirty, fifty, one hundred or more thousand copies. This means that these readers need me, and it is quite natural that they would want to see the true face of the author, remaining in the shadow of fiction tricks.
"Diary" of Yuri Markovich is not just a memoir, but also a valuable historical document. Before us is revealed a continuous series of cultural and socio-political events of the twentieth century. Nagibin describes his meetings with famous writers, directors, politicians, composers, and musicians. He truthfully tells about the war, specifying: “It must be remembered that the military pages were written at the front, in a notebook, which is very easy to find, and with the seeming safety of those days, they dragged on for “ten years without the right to correspond”.” After its publication, The Diary had the effect of a bombshell and caused heated debate, because many of its heroes were shocked by hard-hitting characterizations and unexpected revelations.
Genuine honesty Nagibin captivates: favored by the Soviet era, he nevertheless criticizes her for totalitarianism and strict censorship - cleverly, subtly and boldly. As Yuri Markovich himself said: about everything - frankly, about himself - mercilessly.
See also:
- All books of the publisher Book Club Knigovek
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Literary monuments of Russian life
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| ISBNs | 978-5-4224-1726-1 |
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| The weight | 0,852 kg |
| Size | 125 × 200 mm |
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