Аннотация: The Sketch about the national book market and about Salieri
The Sketch about the national book market and about Salieri
Alexander Pushkin was writing the "small tragedy". "Mozart and Salieri".
Mozart and Salieri are discussing creative issues.
Mozart takes a book with the works of Alexander Pushkin and reads: "I created the monument in a Heavens of Human Spirit for for memory of me..."
- "Monument. Pushkin stands with the book, and on the book the digits, the digital code, sequence of figures, is placed!" - Salieri adds.
- "It is not necessary to generate a horror!" - Mozart parries.
- "Literature now in a difficult situation. There is no market! There is no income!" - Salieri insists.
- "Let's think of positive examples", - Mozart offers. - "For example, there is such country of Great Britain. And in Great Britain there lives the writer Joanne Rowling. So, there are disputes: this writer - she is a billionaire or only the multimillionaire?" "Whether there is no market? Whether there is no income?"
- "You very much got agitated with this monument to Pushkin and with the digits, the digital code, sequence of figures onto the book!" - Salieri calms Mozart. - "Drink a glass of wine. At once it will become easier for you".
Pushkin continues to write "the small tragedy": "... But my deity got hungry..."
Yes! Time to have dinner!
Pushkin has tasty dinner and began to write the letter to the wife. There are problems... ratio of income and expenses...
However, no matter, what kind of point of view on the situation - anyway - the house, the large family, the active creativity...
Pushkin's biographers assume that in 17 years of literary activity he gained income from creativity - tens of thousands of silver rubles ... The popularity, glory drew kind attention of the power and attracted state "salary" (as for the historiographer, for the famous cultural figure)...
On the other hand... If not the "village on Parnassus", then Pushkin's fate what kind would be? What a direction of development his fate could choose?
At best - the works written on "a young fire", on "a young energy", would be placed on some Internet resource, and further - he is an eternal blogger...
At worst - the petty official on the periphery of the empire, the petty official, far from creative activity and busy with a bureaucratic tasks...
In absolutely bad - a destruction of the personality...
Pushkin's thoughts returned to Mozart and Salieri.
"This Salieri... He will poison all Russian literature... He will destroy the national book market..."
"On the book - the digits, the digital code, sequence of figures!..." "He hints. Instead of the book market, instead of publishers and fees, honorarium - a free placement of content on the Internet resources!... He executed, he made poisoning, su..., of all the Russian literature!.. Ai da Salieri, Ai da...!"
On June 6, 2019 07:43
Translation from Russian into English: June 7, 2019 10:58.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Скетч о национальном книжном рынке и о Сальери'.