# A Bendership and another a la Nenashev. A sketch

Vladimir Vladimirovich Zalesski

A Bendership and another a la Nenashev. A sketch.


You could to feel a surprising, while looking at these people.


There were a wide-known events with a foreign general.


Immediately a famous, worthy person, editor of the newspaper (newspapers?), journalist, writer, to a certain extent - a political figure, was called to one of the editorial office.


What did he tell the world?


It turns out that once he experienced a feeling - something close to higher happiness - spoke to the very foreign general!


"Where, how was it?" - the interviewer asks.


"I attended an international forum. At the forum, the general spoke. After the speech, he walked down the aisle between rows. I sat (I was) nearby from an edge (of a row of seats) and told him something positive and he answered me by a few polite words. "


Something amazing is happening in the world!


A widely known cultural figure, who can be called a Soviet (post-Soviet) writer, journalist, newspaper editor comes to some editorial office in order to inform, that he managed to exchange a couple of words with a foreign general!


Even if the Soviet propaganda washed a brains through , even if historical memory was lost (Sergei Witte wrote in a memoir that there had always been excellent relations between Russia and the United States (before 1917); The role of the United States in the fight against famine in Soviet Russia is known - millions of lives saved according the words of Maxim Gorky!, the role of the United States in the relatively peaceful evacuation of Japanese troops from the Russian Far East in 1922; Tehran-Yalta-Potsdam...), but even in this case Ilf and Petrov remain ("Yesterday O. Bender got under the horse of the coachman No. 8974 on the Sverdlov square" - "About you, comrade Bender, today in newspapers they wrote"), Nikolai Gogol ("With Pushkin on a friendly leg. Often I say to him: "Well, brother Pushkin?" - "Yes, brother, - answers, sometimes, - so somehow everything...")...


The deserved, famous man comes to the editorial office for an ununderstandable purpose, praises himself in front of the whole world that he managed to exchange a couple of phrases with a foreign general between a rows...


"Many of the generals were hunters (a persons with a desires existed) and made attempts. But will come, sometimes, - no, a wise things. It seems, and easy to a first look. And when you 'll consider - just the hell! After they see, there 's nothing to do. They go to me." (Nikolai Gogol "The Government Inspector").


Somehow there is no time, no desire to read a works written by a respected cultural figure. But there is suspicion, the assumption: when after 1974 the Portuguese escaped from the overseas territories, probably a respected cultural figure wrote something? In high spirits?


And after 1991 he wrote too? But already in a depressed mood?


After such interviews you understand why "modern youth" increasingly listen to songs of tattooed, decorated rappers singing about different topics, showing some indifference to the authority of writers...


Perhaps, a post-Soviet literature (sometimes) turns into a "Russial literature"?


January 6, 2020 11:50


Translation from Russian into English: January 6, 2020 12:53.

Владимир Владимирович Залесский "Бендеровщина и еще один а ля Ненашев".