Soviet literature: myths and temptations

A collection of lectures, prepared together with the Lecture "Direct Speech", the second book in the new series "Direct Speech"
In the Lecture "Direct Speech", outstanding scientists, writers, actors and popularizers of science are every day. Their assessments and opinions often do not coincide with an established point of view - ideas, thoughts and discoveries are born right before the eyes of the listeners.
For ten years now, the business card of "direct speech" - Dmitry Bykov’s lectures on literature. Bykov teaches you to turn to familiar texts for advice and comfort, look and find answers to them to the challenges of a new day. His lectures are always events. Now they are in the format of the book.
"Soviet literature: myths and temptations" - the second book of lectures by Dmitry Bykov. Mikhail Bulgakov, Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, Alexander Blok, Daniil Harms, Bulat Okudzhava, Joseph Brodsky, Sergey Dovlatov, Victor Pelevin, Boris Grebenshchikov, Russian energy poetry ...
Blok never about himself, the block is always about everyone. Blok is a fatal music, a terrible, painful temptation, and this magnificent, exciting musicality always leads away and only to disaster. Blok with his views, with his social program, with his position of the poet and with his idea of ​​the professional essence of the poet - the prophet of death. The block does not foresee either deliverance or a bright ending, in every revolution, in every abyss to which he appealed, which he loved, the first to die for which it was worth living. ”
Dmitry Bykov.
Compiled by Galina Belyaeva