The Collapse of the Romantic Illusions in the Story of Bulat Okudzhava &amp;quot;Be Healthy, Schoolboy&amp;quot;

Pozina Marina

doi:10.11648/j.history.20190702.12

Abstract

The story "Be healthy, scholar" - a unique phenomenon of the Russian Soviet literature of the twentieth century. The heroes of the war of prose and poetry of the time was not supposed to think about the proximity of death, of hunger on the front line, about the confusion in the orders, feelings of loneliness and hopelessness. Authors of books on military subjects portrayed brave people, ideological fighters against fascism. Writer Okudzhava departed from the prescribed literature templates and showed war as seen through the eyes of yesterday's schoolboy. 60 years of the last century were a period of "thaw" not only in the socio-political life of the country, but also in literature. For a little while, but strict censorship was lifted and the opportunity to write honestly about his own military experience. After all, the story is autobiographical Okudzhava: it is about him - yesterday the boy, who was dressed in a soldier's greatcoat and sent to war. Tale of how the scholar wants to live and afraid of death, ready to give their lives for their country, but would prefer, if possible, not to give up. Brutal military weekdays saved the young hero of the story psevdoromanticheskogo nonsense, revealing the truth - in war there is nothing great. "War can not be great" - openly declared Okudzhava. Only a convinced pacifist courage allowed the writer to express a point of view is radically different from the conventional. Research task article - evaluate the novel by Bulat Okudzhava "Be Healthy, scholar" as an attempt to debunk the literary romantic myths about the war in the Russian literature of the twentieth century. author of the article believes thatBulat Okudzhava's story reflects the realities of war and is indispensable in the study of front-line prose. The focus of the paper, the author focuses on the fact that people in war is left alone with his weaknesses, fears, pain.

Highlights

Okudzhava belongs to a generation of "the sixties", so called writers and poets, whose names became known to the reading audience in the 60 years of the twentieth century
As the author of the research objectives was defined task to evaluate the story of Bulat Okudzhava "Be Healthy, scholar" ka literary attempts dispelling the romantic myths about the war in the Russian literature of the twentieth century
"We were taught time" is one of the songs of Okudzhava, very important recognition. difficult ordeal time really was a very important school, taught to see the truth. It became for many the time overcoming the Stalinist propaganda myths deeply penetrated the public consciousness, finding common sense, realistic view of what is happening

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Introduction

Okudzhava belongs to a generation of "the sixties", so called writers and poets, whose names became known to the reading audience in the 60 years of the twentieth century. It was a special time in the history of Soviet literature, when the yoke of censorship eased and for the authors the opportunity to publish works that before they wrote only "on the table", as no publisher and no magazine would not publish them. Many literary critics have repeatedly appealed to the story "Be healthy, scholar." This work is still a matter of debate, so it is not typical for Soviet prose It does not make heroes and romantic illusions of yesterday's schoolboy breaking on harsh military truth. MA Gureeva devoted to how all creativity Bulat Okudzhava, and he and his autobiographical novel "Bless you, scholar."

Okudzhava and Autobiographical Prose About the War

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