Mobilized Muses
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Mobilized Muses
14.99 €
"This book literally appeared out of thin air," the author explains. "Or rather, out of the airwaves. In 2015, when we celebrated the 70th anniversary of Victory Day, Radio Kultura decided to dedicate a celebratory broadcast to two writers who fought in the war: Konstantin Simonov and Viktor Nekrasov.
I eagerly took on the proposed plot and, without realizing it, quickly wrote five scripts, dedicated not only to Konstantin Mikhailovich and Viktor Platonovich, but also to Alexander Tvardovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Lyubov Orlova and Grigory Alexandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Leonid Utesov, and Klavdiya Shulzhenko. In short, for the Victory Day anniversary, Kultura's broadcast collection included a 15-episode series under the general title "Characters of Victory."
Over time, the idea arose to translate these radio texts into, so to speak, bookish language, which I did, significantly expanding both the amount of documentary evidence and the range of characters. We've long known about the heroism of our soldiers on the front lines, we've long known about the labor feats of our home front, but there was another front—the cultural one, where our writers, poets, journalists, musicians, artists, actors, and directors also fought and labored, and their contribution to the common Victory is no less important and certainly worthy of our knowledge and memory."
I eagerly took on the proposed plot and, without realizing it, quickly wrote five scripts, dedicated not only to Konstantin Mikhailovich and Viktor Platonovich, but also to Alexander Tvardovsky, Boris Pasternak, Anna Akhmatova, Lyubov Orlova and Grigory Alexandrov, Sergei Eisenstein, Leonid Utesov, and Klavdiya Shulzhenko. In short, for the Victory Day anniversary, Kultura's broadcast collection included a 15-episode series under the general title "Characters of Victory."
Over time, the idea arose to translate these radio texts into, so to speak, bookish language, which I did, significantly expanding both the amount of documentary evidence and the range of characters. We've long known about the heroism of our soldiers on the front lines, we've long known about the labor feats of our home front, but there was another front—the cultural one, where our writers, poets, journalists, musicians, artists, actors, and directors also fought and labored, and their contribution to the common Victory is no less important and certainly worthy of our knowledge and memory."
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