Extraordinary adventures of Hulio Hurenito and his students

Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (1891-1967) writes in March 1922: “It seems to me that when you read the "Khurenito", you will meet me for the second time. In the understanding of this book, three steps - cretins see the philosophy of nihilism and indignant, "middle peasants" - decide that this is a satire and laugh, but few ... I don’t know how to determine ... I only know that this is both and another and another Anything else ". Among this "all" for "few" are the amazing prophecies of Ehrenburg: about the imminent combination of Nazism with socialism, about the upcoming Holocaust, about the weapons of incredible power and the use of it by the Americans against the Japanese, that the militant Islam can “set fire to the whole world” .. . Vigilance did not refuse to Ehrenburg when looking at Soviet realities. What is the phrase of the Kremlin leader, in which Lenin is easily recognized: "We are driving in paradise with iron scourges." Evgeny Zamyatin, the author of the anti -utopia "We", who knew the price of the prophecies well, wrote: "Perhaps the most original thing that the novel is smart and Hulio Khurenito himself is smart. With rare exceptions, Russian literature specialized for decades for decades, dumbasses, idiots, blessed, and if I tried smart ones, rarely had anyone. At Ehrenburg - it turned out. "

Quotes of different years about the satirical novel of Ilya Ehrenburg:
Nikolai Bukharin, Dmitry Bykov, Vladimir Kantor