Played on the happy face of a fool. “Atomic fairy tale” caused an explosion of indignation

Since the mid-70s of the 20th century, a dangerous trend has been revealed in the domestic school of a decrease in the interest of schoolchildren in classes. Teachers tried to stop the alienation of schoolchildren from cognitive work different ways. To aggravate the problem, mass practice includes new pedagogical technologies and non-standard lessons, which have the main goal of arousing and maintaining students’ interest in educational work.

Pedagogical technologies are a structure of teacher activity in which all the actions included in it are presented in a certain integrity and sequence, and implementation involves achieving the required result and is predictable, guaranteeing the success of the educational process. The technology is based on value orientations, the teacher’s target settings, the technological chain is built strictly in accordance with the goal and guarantees the achievement of the goal. Any educational technology is reproduced taking into account the teacher’s original handwriting. The teacher's signature style is especially clearly visible in such a form of educational activity as a non-standard lesson.

A non-standard lesson is an impromptu training session that has a non-traditional (unspecified) structure. The opinions of teachers about non-standard lessons differ: some see in them the progress of pedagogical thought, the right step in the direction of democratization of the school, while others, on the contrary, consider such lessons to be a violation of pedagogical principles, a forced retreat of teachers under the pressure of lazy students who do not want and cannot work seriously.

The word “lesson” is almost one and a half thousand years old. And for the same number of years, the lesson has been solving the following problems: to teach, to educate, and most importantly, to develop. The developmental aspect of the triune lesson goal is the most difficult aspect for the teacher for two reasons:

1) the teacher strives to form a new developmental aspect for each lesson, forgetting that the independence of the development process is relative and occurs more slowly than the process of training and education;

2) insufficient knowledge by the teacher of the child’s psychological structure and those areas of personality that need to be developed.

The developmental aspect of the lesson goal, in contrast to the teaching and educating aspect, can be formulated for the triune goal of several lessons and whole topic. It consists of the following blocks:

1) speech development (enrichment of the student’s vocabulary, strengthening the communicative properties of speech, since speech development– an indicator of intellectual and general development student);

2) development of thinking (learn to analyze, highlight the main thing, compare, build analogies, generalize and systematize, prove and refute.

The rule can be memorized, although this will not bring much benefit, but it is impossible to develop speech and thinking by force. Development occurs if the child is interested in the lesson, if he himself is actively involved in learning activities. Of course, non-standard lessons, unusual in design, organization, and delivery methods, are more popular with students than everyday training sessions with a strict structure and established work schedule. Therefore, such lessons should be practiced, but turning non-standard lessons into the main form of activity is inappropriate due to a large loss of time, low productivity, and lack of serious cognitive work. There are several dozen types of non-standard lessons. Their names give an idea of ​​the goals and objectives, and the methodology for conducting such classes. One of the most interesting non-standard lessons is the workshop lesson.

Lessons-workshops first began to be held in France more than 80 years ago; they have been practiced in domestic pedagogy since 1990.

The workshop lesson has a certain algorithm of actions:

1. (the lesson begins without announcing the topic). The first stage is the “inductor” - a push, a springboard, a creative beginning that motivates all further activities of everyone and creates a comfortable situation for the child. This could be a task around a word, an object, a drawing, but the main thing is unexpected, mysterious, personal. A postcard, photograph, word, sign, etc. can be used as an “inductor”.

2. Working with material:

a) deconstruction (mixing, turning phenomena, words, events into chaos);
b) reconstruction (creating your own text, drawing, statement, etc.)

3. Primary socialization, that is, the correlation of one’s activities with the activities of others (work in a group, dialogue, presentation of the intermediate result of one’s work).

4. Self-correction (the child critically comprehends what he has invented, compares his own with someone else’s. During the exchange

as an intermediate result, he notices something useful for himself in others).

5. Information request.

6. Creativity (on clean slate paper, the student rewrites what he got).

7. New socialization (students can exchange sheets, read their work out loud).

8. Break (the moment of insight and culmination of the creative process; the student looks at his work as a miracle: there was the source material, he destroyed everything, mixed it and got something new).

9. The information request may appear again.

10. Reflection (introspection of what has been done occurs, but not just value judgments, there must be an analysis of the movement of one’s own thoughts, feelings, knowledge).

Working according to the above algorithm often leads to an unexpected result, since not a single opinion expressed on a given topic or problem is considered erroneous. Internally liberating, the student writes and says what he thinks, and not what they want to hear from him. We can say that a non-standard lesson leads to a “non-standard” view of the work. The child does not simply respond to a work of art because the teacher demands it, but through the prism of his own “I” he considers the problems raised by the author in the work, agrees or disagrees with the opinions of the author, critics, and teacher, and offers his own solution to these problems. Conducting a workshop lesson is especially effective in preparing students to write creative works.

Lesson objectives: improve the ability to analyze poetic text; continue work on developing students’ oral and written speech; to attract children's attention to the problem of spirituality in an unspiritual world; fostering a conscious, active interest in knowledge.

Board design

(The topic of the lesson is not recorded)

During the classes

I. introduction teachers

Lyrical works, sadly enough, are loved by few readers. Indeed, in some verses it is difficult, almost impossible, to grasp the meaning; in others, heaps of words may seem incomprehensible and unnecessary. Some poets were even afraid to be understood by readers. For example: Osip Mandelstam wrote to a friend: “I am becoming clear, it scares me.” Poems are a mystery, and a mystery cannot be clear and understandable. In order to understand lyrical work It’s not enough to know, you have to feel: poetry, first of all, awakens feelings. Remember this when we talk about the poem. Yuri Kuznetsov, our contemporary, wrote a poem that we will talk about today in class. We won’t read the work yet; I won’t say what it’s called. With my help, you will restore the content of the poem, determine its main idea, title it, and then get acquainted with the text.

II. Associations

The first clue is written on the board - the name of the lyrical hero, who turns from Ivanushka into Ivan the Fool.

What associations arise in your memory when you hear the names of these fairy-tale characters. Write down in your notebook the epithets that characterize Ivanushka and Ivan the Fool.

(Students read the options for their answers, on the board the teacher writes down associations and epithets that many people have)

The second clue is what had to happen for the kind and sweet Ivanushka to turn into the rude Ivan the Fool?

III. Sound recording

One more hint. The sound recording of the poem is written on the board, that is, the sounds that are in a strong position are written out from the words. Sound recording can say a lot about a poem if you know the semantic characteristics of the sounds. (“a” - light, “o” - dark, “i”, “s” - cold, “e” - warm)

The most common sound is “a”. What does this mean?

(The general background of the poem is “light.” Such a background is traditional for folk tales, where dark forces, no matter how strong they are, are always defeated).

- “Light” “a” is contrasted with “dark” “o”, “warm” “e” - “cold” “i”, “s”. What does this express?

(The struggle taking place in the hero’s soul).

Let's summarize everything we know about the poem.

(The fairy tale takes place in the modern world. Events do not develop according to a fairy tale scenario: lyrical hero changes for the worse).

IV. Graphic drawing of the poem

Here is a graphic drawing of a poem. Each dash in a line replaces a word, and some conclusions can also be drawn from the broken line that connects the ends of the lines.

What is the theme of the poem?

(Students express their guesses).

V. Reading of the poem by Yu. Kuznetsov “ Atomic fairy tale»

What can we add to what we have already said?

(Modernity is cruel, a kind person It is unlikely to survive in it. The fairy tale turns from happy to unhappy. Because of this behavior of Ivan the Fool, everything good and bright that humanity has accumulated collapses. Our fate is to die from cruelty and misunderstanding or learn to be humane. Beautiful dream is also necessary, as well as a practically useful thing).

VI. Working on the title of the poem

What do you think the poem is called?

(“Cruel fairy tale”, “New fairy tale”, “Modern fairy tale”, “Terrible fairy tale”. As a rule, none of the students can answer this question correctly, although the essence of the problem is understood correctly)

The poem by Yu. Kuznetsov is called “Atomic Tale”. Why is the fairy tale “atomic”?

(The atom is not only peaceful energy, but also something that can lead the world to disaster. The well-being of people depends on the choice that each of us makes).

VII. Homework or, if there is time, independent work in class

Summarize the work on the poem by composing your own “Atomic Tale.”

Notes

The answers given in brackets were given by 8th grade students.

The main goal of the lesson in analyzing the poem by Yu. Kuznetsov “Atomic Tale”: improving the skills of analyzing the poem. Analysis of a poetic work, as we know, does not come down to a mechanical fixation of tropes; children must understand their artistic purpose in a particular work. It is important to understand that the title of a work can also help in understanding the idea of ​​the work.

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Yuri Polikarpovich Kuznetsov

“Only the heart is vigilant. You can’t see the most important thing with your eyes.”

Yu. Kuznetsov. "Atomic Tale". One poem lesson. 7th grade.

The purpose of the lesson : develop, improve the ability to analyze a poem. Cultivate attention, interest, love for native word, the ability to sympathize, empathize.

Dictionary : irony, sarcasm, philosophical (question)

During the classes.

Announcing the topic and purpose of the lesson.

How do you understand the meaning of the sentence: “Only the heart is vigilant; you cannot see the most important things with your eyes”?

The topic of our lesson is unusual: it contains philosophical meaning. What questions are called philosophical?

(those that contain a deep, vital idea)

We will get acquainted with the poem “Atomic Tale” by Yuri Polikarpovich Kuznetsov.

(Reading a poem by the teacher)

Yuri Kuznetsov.

Atomic fairy tale

I heard this happy tale

I'm already in the current mood,

How Ivanushka came out into the field

And he fired the arrow at random.

He went in the direction of the flight

Following the silver trail of fate.

And he ended up with a frog in a swamp,

Three seas from my father's hut.

It will come in handy for a good cause! –

He put the frog in the scarf

Opened up her white royal body

And started an electric current.

She died in long agony,

Centuries beat in every vein.

And the smile of knowledge played

On the happy face of a fool.

How did this poem make you feel?

(Pity for the dead animal, indignation)

Yes, like that strong feelings embrace the reader... But the poet nowhere directly condemned his hero, was not indignant at his cruelty, did not express out loud sympathy for the animal. Let's see how the poem is constructed, how the poet was able to give such power to the simplest words.

We read a fairy tale, but not a simple one, but an “atomic” one, that is, a modern fairy tale, a fairy tale of the atomic age. And the hero is familiar to us from folk tales. What's his name?

(Ivan the Fool, Ivan the Fool)What do they call fairy tale hero more often?(Ivanushka the Fool) Why?

Read the first two stanzas of the poem. How is the beginning of the poem similar to a folk tale?(Plot, name of the hero, joyful mood, anticipation of happiness).

However, the ending of the atomic fairy tale is tragic.

Why did Ivanushka take the frog with him? Read.

“It will be useful for a just cause.” What kind of things are talked about like this?(Students determine the meaning of a word byexplanatory dictionary. –About deeds that can make all humanity happy.)

Why did Ivanushka cut a living frog and pass a current through its body?

(He wanted to be a scientist, wanted to know the world, find out how the frog’s body works)

What did Ivan learn about the frog, and what did he not know and will never know?

(I found out how the frog’s body works. He will never know how beautiful she is, he will not understand that she could become his happiness, his destiny, the meaning of life).

Why couldn't he find out?(Because he doesn’t like the frog, is deaf and blind to its suffering)

Read the last two verses. What words, not being antonyms, are opposed to each other?(cognition is a fool).Is it a coincidence that these words are placed next to each other?(No. Knowledge does not make the hero smart, he remains a fool).

Why did it happen so?(The prince does not love the frog, does not see the beauty of nature, does not love nature, but only loves his knowledge about it).

Draw a conclusion: what is the main idea (idea) of the poem?

Notebook entries:

Subject. old tale on new way.

Idea: Only a kind person can be wise, only a kind look at the world reveals its beauty.

Artistic features.

How is the main idea of ​​the poem revealed? How do the paths “work” in it? Find the paths and determine what their role is.

Epithets: white royal body, silvery trace of fate . Why adjective white consider it an epithet? Why body royal ? Perhaps a hint of a relationship with the prince?

Re-read the first stanza. There is a word in it, the real meaning of which is revealed to us only after reading the entire poem (Happy fairy tale.) Do you think this word sounds serious, ironically or irony increases to sarcasm?

Explain the meaning and role of metaphor:centuries were knocking in every vein.

Determine the poetic meter. What pace and tone does the anapest set in the poem?

(Make notes in your notebook.)

Do you think the theme of the work is relevant today? What does the poem teach, what does the poem make you think about?

Many readers perceived these poems as a scientific and technological counter-revolution. Children may have a question: it turns out that the poem is directed against scientists conducting experiments on animals in order to save humans from deadly diseases? That such experiments are immoral? But how can one refuse medical discoveries, without which the health and even life of a person and entire generations would be at risk? The answer is intitle of the poem. The atomic tale, the tale of the atomic age, which puts man before moral choice so often that we get used to not deciding moral problems, and pass by them. The atomic age, which enriched humanity with knowledge, becomes an obstacle to wisdom.)

Independent work. Ideological and artistic analysis of Yu. Kuznetsov’s poem “Atomic Tale” (connected oral history based on class notes)

Homework(at students' choice) Miniature essay: “Only the heart is vigilant” (in writing)

Or: learn by heart the poem “Atomic Tale” by Yu. Kuznetsov.

The poem “Atomic Tale” can be found in the literature textbook for the 8th grade, edited by Kutuzov, Kiselyov, Romanichev, Koloss and Ledenev.

After reading it, many parents are horrified, because the poet Yuri Kuznetsov presented everyone’s favorite fairy tale “The Frog Princess” in a new light. And if before there was a happy ending, now the prince dissects the frog and sends an electric current through its body. The poor animal dies in terrible agony, which Ivan watches with a smile.

My son came from school and brought me a textbook so that I could read the poem,” said the mother of one of the 8th grade students, Svetlana Sergeevna. - To put it mildly, I was slightly perplexed. I only had one question: where and why did this appear in the school textbook? Do we not have enough normal works? This is some kind of mockery of the child’s psyche. Maybe now swear poems will be included in the school curriculum?

Such indignation is understandable. After all, we were all brought up on fairy tales where good triumphs over evil. Moreover, the parents’ opinion is shared by those teachers who work in a different program.

“I am studying from a textbook by another author and this is the first time I have read such a work,” explained Oksana Kondrashina, a teacher of Russian language and literature. - I would not recommend this fairy tale to my students either in the 8th grade or in the 11th. In a literature lesson, on the contrary, we try to teach children goodness. After all, they already live in a world where there is too much dirt and evil.

But the literature teacher, who has been working with this textbook for several years, believes that parents have nothing to worry about. Today, children have other interests. And to draw their attention to eternal problems, we need a non-standard approach.

“I agree that this work can cause a lot of controversy among adults,” said Irina Alexandrovna. - But now is a slightly different time, and children perceive this fairy tale differently than their parents. Yes, it is written in modern and cruel language, and the students understand this. Everything here is built on the contrast between good and bad. And the hero is shown as an antihero. And under the image of the frog is hidden not the princess, but folklore, fairy tales, traditions, that is, the good heritage of the past. And by opening the “royal body,” Ivan the Fool breaks this connection of times and deprives himself of his roots. He destroys everything good and bright that humanity has accumulated over the centuries. This means he is deprived of his future. And here it is important to explain to children that by choosing cruelty and misunderstanding, we doom ourselves to extinction. Therefore, we must learn to be humane.

The regional department of education and science declined to comment, citing the fact that they are not involved in compiling textbooks. And the choice of program depends on the teacher. There is only one requirement - the textbook must be recommended by the ministry.

VERBATIM

Atomic fairy tale

I heard this happy tale

I'm already in the current mood,

How Ivanushka came out into the field

And he fired the arrow at random.

He went in the direction of flight

Along the silver trail of fate,

And he ended up with a frog in a swamp

Three seas from my father's hut.

It will come in handy for a good cause!

He put the frog in the handkerchief.

Opened up her white royal body

And started an electric current.

She died in long agony,

Centuries knocked in every vein,

And the smile of knowledge played

On the happy face of a fool.

“LIVING” CERTIFICATES

Yuri Polikarpovich Kuznetsov (02/11/1941 - 11/17/2003) - poet and translator.

He first announced himself while still a student at the Literary Institute with the poem “Atomic Tale”. He has published about twenty collections. Many of Kuznetsov's works are used as the basis for musical works.

His work has always aroused controversy and interest among readers. He often addressed the eternal problems of good and evil, divine and human. The poems intertwine philosophy, mythology and civic poetry. An example is poems on biblical themes (“The Path of Christ”, “The Descent into Hell”).

I heard this happy tale
I'm already in the current mood,
How Ivanushka came out into the field
And he fired the arrow at random.

He went in the direction of flight
Following the silver trail of fate.
And he ended up with a frog in a swamp,
Three seas from my father's hut.

It will come in handy for a good cause! -
He put the frog in the handkerchief.
Opened up her white royal body
And started an electric current.

She died in long agony,
Centuries beat in every vein.
And the smile of knowledge played
On the happy face of a fool.

WILL

At night I pulled it out of my forehead
Apollo's golden arrow...

At twenty I discovered holiness in earthly love... I discovered the Russian theme, to which I will be faithful until my death.” This is what Yuri Kuznetsov spoke about his work in his essay “Outlook”.

The poet was born on February 11, 1941. in the village of Leningradskaya Krasnodar region. His mother is a teacher, his father is a career officer, in 1944. died in Crimea.

Born in February, under Aquarius
In a complacent emergency age,
I grew up with the infantile generation,
A twitchy and precise person.
The smell of hope has become unbearably bitter,
And the bread of memories became stale.
I forgot the provincial town
Where the streets go straight into the steppe...

In 1961-1964. Yuri Kuznetsov served in Soviet army, caught in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world hung in the balance

I remember the night with the continental rockets
When every step was an event of the soul,
When we slept, by order, not naked
And the horror of space thundered in our ears.
Since then it’s better not to dream about fame
With lips bitten from the inside,
Forget about happiness and be silent, be silent -
Otherwise you won't be able to solve the memories.

Worked in the police. In 1965 entered the Literary Institute named after. M. Gorky. In 1966 The first collection of poems “The Thunderstorm” was published in Krasnodar. In 1974 The second collection “Inside Me and Nearby is Distance” was published in Moscow. He was immediately noticed by critics. V. Kozhinov announced the birth of a major poet. In 1974 was admitted to the Writers' Union of the USSR.

In the mid-70s, a magazine war broke out in connection with his poems

I drank from my father's skull
For truth on earth,
For a fairy tale from a Russian face
AND Right way in the darkness.

The sun and moon rose
And they clinked glasses with me.
And I repeated the names
Forgotten by the earth.

The poet’s “Rebuke” became a kind of response

What kind of tribe was born?
You can't drive away even with a chained dog.
I deprived them God's mercy,
So they want to snatch away from earthly things.

Since you are a poet, open your soul.
Those are knocking, and these are knocking
And they shake my glory like a pear.
- Who are they? “Ours,” they say.

Besides arrogant hopes and fog,
No crosses, no bushes, no ideas.
Oh you naked dwarfs of deception,
At least they were ashamed of the people!

I throw the poet's cloak - catch it!
He will bend you to the ground.
Drag him, drag him,
At Olympus knocking down rubles.

Over there, transversely and longitudinally,
Rogues of souls and roads.
Don't want. I despise it. Enough
Upholster my high threshold.

Yuri Kuznetsov worked at the publishing house " Soviet writer" After well-known events, he moved to the magazine “Our Contemporary”. He was a member of the editorial board, head of the poetry department. He worked a lot and fruitfully on translations. Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1990).
Died of a heart attack on November 17, 2003. He was buried in Moscow at the Troekurovsky cemetery.

Evgeniy REIN about Yuri KUZNETSOV:
“In my opinion, a huge segment of Russian history has ended, and the great Russian culture has sunk to the bottom, like Atlantis, which we still have to search for and unravel. That is why, at the end of such a long historiosophical time, a poet like Yuri Kuznetsov appeared, a poet extremely rare group blood...
He, like any very large phenomenon, in general, came out of the darkness in which certain fire signs that we don't fully understand...
He speaks dark symbolic words that will find their decoding, but not today and not tomorrow. That is why he was given an enormous tragic talent. It's tragic. He is one of the most tragic poets of Russia from Simeon of Polotsk to the present day...”

You can read this in full in the 11th issue of the reading room Stihi.Ru. Ibid. good selection poet's poems.

There is probably nothing to add to Rain's words.

Unless you remember the charming comment clittary_hilton to the above-mentioned source: can a patriot (that is, a person who trumpets his patriotism) not be a bastard?
Apparently it can.

And also pay tribute to the poet’s clairvoyance

Peter's shadow walks on the living.
- What kind of people are these! - speaks. -
Jumps out of the window like a frog,
Is our country on fire?

And the passer-by answers him:
- Sir, he’s heading to Europe.

What about the power? - A passerby spits:
- And the power burned down a long time ago. -
He hears: the sound of a hammer is heard -
This is Peter boarding up the window.

A selection of poems by Yuri Kuznetsov

Over casual conversation on the road
Sometimes we liked to show off
Either a love or a military victory,
Which makes your chest tighten.

I supported the high brand,
I haven’t forgiven you for the old meeting.
And in a noisy circle, like a glass,
Your proud name let me in.

You appeared like a vision
I remain faithful to the winner.
- For ten years I stood outside the door,
Finally you called out to me.

I looked at you without blinking.
“You’re chilled...” and ordered a drink.
- I'm trembling because I'm naked,
But this is what you wanted to see.

God be with you! - and I waved my hand
To your incomplete joy. -
You asked for love and peace
But I give you freedom.

Didn't say anything to this
And she instantly forgot me.
And went to the other side of the world,
Protecting yourself from fire with your hand.

Since then, over a casual conversation,
Remembering the path I've taken,
Neither love nor military victory
I'm not trying to show off anymore. (1975)

You are the king: live alone.
A. Pushkin
I lived alone. You said: - I'm alone too,
I will be faithful to you until the grave, like a dog...

So I was thrown into your mouth by fate along the way.
Gnawing at me like a royal bone in the flesh.

Moaned passionately, although others sometimes
The bone was torn out of your fatal mouth.

You rushed at them with a scream, more terrible than Satan.
That's enough, dear! They, like you, are hungry.

The brain is sucked out, and sometimes the bones are empty
The spirit or the wind sings about my last hour.

Abandoned, I will flicker among the heavenly lights...
Trust in God so that he will forgive you for your loyalty. (1988)

We did not come to this temple to get married,
We did not come to blow up this temple,
We came to this temple to say goodbye,
We came to this temple to cry.

The mourning faces have dimmed
And they no longer mourn for anyone.
The striking peaks have become damp
And they don’t hurt anyone anymore.

The air is full of forgotten poison,
Unknown either to the world or to us.
Creeping grasses through the dome,
Like tears running down the walls.

Floating in a lumpy stream,
Wraps above the knees.
We forgot about the highest
After so many losses and betrayals.

We forgot that it's full of threat
This world is like an abandoned temple.
And our children's tears flow,
And the grass runs up my legs.

Yes! Our pure tears flow.
The abandoned temple echoes dully.
And creeping vines run up,
Like flames down our legs. (1979)

DARK PEOPLE

We are dark people, but with a pure soul.
We fell from above with the evening dew.
We lived in darkness with twinkling stars
Refreshing both the earth and the air.
And in the morning the easiest death came,
The soul, like dew, flew to heaven.
We all disappeared into the shining firmament,
Where is the light before birth and the light after death. (1997)

RUSSIAN THOUGHT

Tell me, oh Russian distance,
Where does it start in you?
Such native sadness?..
A branch is swinging on a tree.

The day has passed. Two days pass.
Without wind, he rushes about in the tree.
And doubt took over me:
Is it imagining or not imagining?

The leaves sing as they fall.
Why does it really swing?
I went and got drunk out of boredom...
This is how Russian thought begins. (1969)

BURIAL IN THE KREMLIN WALL

When the flow is noisy
Red Banner,
Weep and cry, O Russian land!
Look: it's a curse
branded
The final assault
Kremlin.
I found an honorable replacement brick,
Which posterity will not forgive.
Cells with ashes are gnawed
wall -
She can hardly stand on them.

AUTUMN SPACE

Ancient autumn, your verse has become obsolete,
Your side is empty.
At night, under the tree, the air screams
From a falling leaf.

And the wind that carried the sound of winter,
All the windows in the village were blown out.
The trees shook out of the ground,
And the leaves go back to the ground.

Not the air, not the field, not the bare forest,
And the abysses passed between us.
The azure of heaven burns underfoot -
So we are far from the earth.

But be quiet, my friend! Wife!
There is a minute of reflection.
Then it started to rain, then there was almost silence...
This cannot be tolerated.

Everything was straightforward, direct.
It was raining straight, it was raining straight,
Suddenly he became sideways.

Everything became askew under the slanting rain:
Houses, horizon, hills,
And the house, the instantly darkened house,
And we are in front of him, and we.

TALE OF THE GOLDEN STAR

General went fishing
And the whole headquarters chose the place.

Is it good? - he gurgled out of God's shoals.
-- Yes sir! - the officers roared.

Where's the fishing rod? - ready to honor honor,

For one minute the retinue did not blink.
But the general's luck is in sight,

And the general’s word is heard:
- Hey! Yes, it's a perch! On the ear!

The hook is in place and the worm is in place.

Where's the stack? - knocked over the stack
By the collar. And I cast the bait.

And for two minutes the retinue did not blink.
But the general's luck is in sight,

And the general’s word is heard:
- Carp? It's great. On the ear!

He threw it into the cauldron, and again it was an honor.
The hook is in place and the worm is in place.

And again he knocked back a shot of vodka
By the collar. And I cast the bait.

And for three minutes the retinue did not blink.
But the general's luck is in sight,

And the general’s word is heard:
-- A, gold fish! On the ear!

But, shining with beauty and intelligence,
The goldfish said:

Let me go, servant, but for friendship
I will do you a great service

Your desire is enough...
But the general did not listen to anything:

What to wish for when I have everything:
And the army, and the will, and the idea,

And that is to say, the wife and daughter are in fur,
The son is a diplomat... In your ear immediately!

Hearing such speech with trepidation,
The golden one changed her mind and said:

Hero! My destiny is in the wrong water
But what can you say about the second Star?

And he waved: “I agree to the second!” --
And he threw the goldfish into the water.

A Sound of Thunder! No retinue, no cars.
In a wide field he stands alone,

In a soldier's tunic, and squeezed
The last grenade is in his hand.

And they are coming at him from all sides
Four tanks from another time. (1981)

The poem “Atomic Tale” is a kind of calling card of Yuri Kuznetsov’s poetry:

I heard this happy tale

I'm already in the current mood,

How Ivanushka came out into the field

And he fired the arrow at random.

He went to the direction: flight

Following the silver trail of fate.

And he ended up with a frog in a swamp,

Three seas from my father's hut.

"It will be useful for a just cause!" –

He put the frog in the handkerchief.

Opened up her white royal body

And started an electric current.

She died in long agony,

Centuries beat in every vein.

And the smile of knowledge played

On the happy face of a fool.

The title of the poem is a reaction to a certain cultural paradigm that was widespread at the time it was written. For the second half of the 1960s - 1970s. This is an era of numerous alterations classical works(especially fairy tales) “in a new way” (suffice it to remember that two years before the appearance of the poem, the famous film “Aibolit-66” with Rolan Bykov and Oleg Efremov in the leading roles was released). Soviet theater and cinema during this period embraced the craze of creating “remakes”, characteristic feature which is the correlation with “turbulent modernity”, “the time of speeds and rhythms, rock and roll and synchrophasotron”. Especially often, when pointing out this correlation, such constructions as “atomic age”, “age atomic bomb". The first two lines of the poem (“I heard this happy fairy tale / I’m already in the present mood”) refer to this paradigm and set the reader up for it. The text that follows (until the middle of the third stanza) is a retelling of the plot of the famous Russian folk tale"Princess Frog". In the second part of the third stanza, an unexpected break in the script occurs: the hero of the poem, Ivanushka, begins to behave not in accordance with the logic of the fairy tale, but in accordance with the model of behavior dictated by the “atomic age” (“He opened up her white royal body / And gave her an electric current”).

Kuznetsov's poem is polemical in relation to "fairy tales in a new way." If in such tales modernity was organically integrated into the folklore-mythological tradition (a typical example: well-read Soviet schoolchildren helped Ivan Tsarevich defeat Koshchei the Immortal with the help of the latest scientific achievements of that day), then Kuznetsov showed that modernity and myth contradict and oppose each other . Their opposition is due to the fact that modernity is unable to understand myth. The language of antiquity is forever lost to modern man. The language of antiquity has been replaced by a new, rationalistic, destructive language of perception of the world. The meanings of the same concepts in these two languages ​​are directly opposite. The ritual language of antiquity is imbued with love and creation: a fairy-tale ritual instructs the hero to kiss an enchanted frog and disenchant it with a kiss, returning its appearance beautiful girl. For newest language“nature is not a temple, but a workshop,” and the frog is just an object of vivisection.

The newest language destroys the fairy tale and makes it impossible. Thus, Kuznetsov leads the reader to the idea that this language (the language of technogenic civilization) is anti-language, the tongue of Satan; that technogenic civilization is incompatible with myth.

The first two lines of the last stanza (“In long agony she died, / Centuries pounded in every vein”) strengthen the author’s idea, focusing on the cruelty of the hero, the blatant unnaturalness and blasphemous immediacy of his actions. The last two lines of “The Atomic Tale” (“And the smile of knowledge played / On the happy face of the fool”) return the hero to his fairy-tale definition - “fool”, colliding the two meanings of this word. The fairy-tale Ivanushka is a “fool” in a figurative sense: behind his outward foolishness he hides wisdom. Newest Ivanushka- a fool (cretin) in the most literal sense of the word. Sharp pairing different meanings the words “fool” gives the poem a shade of evil grotesque. IN Soviet time“The Atomic Tale” by Yuri Kuznetsov was included in the category of “ecological literature”, on the topic of “the struggle to preserve environment"(similar topics were extremely popular in the 1960s–1970s). The real meaning of the work was much deeper than “ecological issues”: Yuri Kuznetsov questioned the foundations of a civilization built on technical progress and scientific and rational ways of perceiving reality (to a certain extent, the poet criticized materialism and rationalism - the basis of the normative Soviet philosophical and ideological system).