Аннотация: Vladislav Krapivin. For some - tops, for others - roots? The note.
Vladislav Krapivin. For some - tops, for others - roots? The note.
The news reports are mentioning the sad news of the death of Vladislav Krapivin, who is called a writer and a public figure.
For two or three years I have been more or less regularly reading news on the Internet and paying attention to information about culture, about literature ...
Although I, it seems, did not hear anything about Vladislav Krapivin until yesterday, nevertheless I am inclined to believe that he is a useful person, and his passing away is a sad event.
Nevertheless, if we compare the relative media silence about Vladislav Krapivin before his death, and the dense flow of information after his departure to another world, then an opinion about the media campaign arises.
What is this media campaign? Who needs it and why?
The current situation is characterized by the destruction of the national book market, which makes an unbearable the more or less civilized existence of the authors of literary works - they do not have the opportunity to sell their works to a wide range of readers and to live by the money they earn. To live independently of budget money and decision-makers.
Accordingly, there are no significant cultural figures in modern Russial society. Only those who have learned the rules of servile behavior can live more or less safely ...
However, modern official structures are in dire need of a positive, cultural reputation. We have famous writers, powerful cultural figures!
Who are they? Those figures who promote the criminal sub-culture?
The engines of the criminal sub-culture cause irritation and skepticism in the society. Even if this or that person is intimidated or he is in servile mood, he, out of a sense of healthy caution, as a rule, avoids the criminal sub-culture ...
Nevertheless, we hear about certain persons who are moving along the higher spheres, who receive huge incomes ... The public hears about them, is silent, internally feels skepticism, rejection, irritation and even contempt ...
In accordance with the rules of a folk fairy tale, somewhere in the provinces, in the depths of taiga forests, among swamps, behind high fences, in chopped sketes [far, distant houses, which build with the help of trunks of large coniferous trees], cultural righteous people live ...
They receive neither big money, nor high-profile titles, nor high positions, they are not treated with the highest attention ...
Even if they exist, they are a kind of outcasts ... These are the rules of the game. The blessings of life do not go to them - in modern society, where the intelligentsia is being replaced by highly effective managers and all sorts of prankers ...
"In 2007, V.P. Krapivin moved from Yekaterinburg to Tyumen. "They are trying to turn Yekaterinburg into some kind of Las Vegas, - said the writer. - Such a city is alien to me, I don't want to live in it." In Tyumen, he was elected professor of Tyumen State University, led a school of literary skills for students. On June 15, 2011, in the Tyumen center of literature and local history, the Museum of Vladislav Krapivin was opened - with a permanent exhibition "Slavka from Herzen Street", consisting of things from the life and work of the writer.
In October 2013, V. P. Krapivin moved to Yekaterinburg again. "(Wikipedia).
The awards are chronologically grouped, mainly, into a time of pre-perestroika age. The Lenin Komsomol Prize (1974) is of particular importance.
Yet Vladislav Krapivin was awarded the Order of Honor (2009).
Tyumen turned out to be a kind city - a professor, an order [award]... Most likely, they gave him an apartment (without payment) ...
It's good when a person has a literary biography created during the Soviet era and a kind city ...
However, the everything changes if some figure - a fairy person, or capable of becoming a part of a fairy tale - passes away.
Why not organize a PR campaign. We have big cultural figures!
In general, it is a pity that Vladislav Krapivin passed away. We believe that he was a useful and talented person, although we hadn't heard of him before the PR campaign ... Still, some doubt remains - if he is so talented, if he is so useful, why there was no a relatively significant attention to him, a relatively noticeable information about him? Why he was not rewarded with big money, was not invited up to a threshold of a higher spheres, was not pampered with the highest attention? Or did all this take place, but - in a relative informational silence? Such option is incredible...
Or maybe everything is simpler? For some - tops, for others - roots?
It is a pity that Vladislav Krapivin has passed away...
[Explanation: Одним - вершки, другим - корешки. For some - tops, for others - roots. Русская пословица. The Russian proverb.]
September 1, 2020 14:04
Translation from Russian into English: September 1, 2020 20:36.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Владислав Крапивин. Одним - вершки, другим - корешки? Заметка'.