The image of a librarian through the prism of fiction. The image of the library: from ideal to real The theme of the library in fiction

The image of a librarian in literary works

Dear Colleagues!

I offer you a selection of characters from works that I remember in connection with the issue raised. Some of them give a specific description of the heroine, so I offer them as excerpts from stories, others reveal inner world librarian through action, dialogue, often on an abstract topic. In the latter case, I tried to summarize and articulate my understanding of what I read.
Babel, I.E. Public library
Essays. In 2 volumes. T.1. Stories 1913-1924.; Journalism; Letters. – M.: Artist. lit., 1990. - 478 p.
The disdainful attitude of this talented author towards the library and the librarian is surprising:
“The fact that this is the kingdom of the book is immediately felt. The people serving the library touched the book, the reflected life, and themselves, as it were, became only a reflection of living, real people.
Even the servants in the dressing room are mysteriously quiet, filled with contemplative calm, neither brunettes nor blondes, but something in between.
At home, perhaps, on Sunday they drink methylated spirits and beat their wife for a long time, but in the library their character is not noisy, inconspicuous and veiledly gloomy.
In the reading room there are higher-ranking employees: librarians. Some of them - “wonderful” - have some pronounced physical defect: this one’s fingers are crooked, this one’s head slid to one side and remained that way.
They are poorly dressed, extremely skinny. It seems that they are fanatically possessed by some thought unknown to the world.
Gogol would describe them well!
...the “unremarkable” librarians have a delicate bald spot, gray clean suits, correctness in their gaze and painful slowness in their movements. They constantly chew something and move their jaws, although there is nothing in their mouth, they speak in a habitual whisper; in general, they are spoiled by the book, by the fact that you can’t yawn juicily.”

Chapek, K. Where do the books go?
Favorites: Stories. Essays. Aphorisms. – Mn.: BSU Publishing House, 1982. – 382 p., ill.
We all love the writer's stories and humores. A funny, good-natured smile appears when you read this miniature. Our heroes are caricatures, but I don’t feel offended by the author, because kindness is a defining feature of his work:
“Some people, as they say, cannot attach themselves to anything. Such worthless creatures usually go to work somewhere in a library or editorial office. The fact that they are looking for income there, and not in the board of the Zhivnostensky Bank or the Regional Committee, speaks of a certain curse weighing on them. I, too, at one time belonged to such worthless creatures and also entered the same library. True, my career was very short and not very successful: I only lasted two weeks there. However, I can still testify that the common perception of the life of a librarian is not true. According to the public, he climbs up and down the ladder all day, like the angels in Jacob's dream, pulling from the shelves mysterious, almost witchcraft tomes, bound in pigskin and full of knowledge about good and evil. In reality, it happens a little differently: the librarian doesn’t have to tinker with the books at all, except to measure the format, put a number on each and write the title on the card as beautifully as possible. For example, on one card:
“Zaoralek, Felix Jan. About grass lice, as well as a way to combat them, exterminate them and protect our fruit trees from all pests, especially in the Mladoboleslav district. Page 17. Ed. author, Mlada Boleslav, 1872."
Another:
“Herbal louse” - see “About tr. c., as well as about the way to combat them,” etc.
On third:
“Fruit trees” - see “On grass lice”, etc.
On the fourth:
“Mlada Boleslav” - see “On grass lice, etc., especially in the Mlada Boleslav district.”
Then all this is entered into thick catalogs, after which the attendant will take the book away and put it on a shelf where no one will ever touch it. All this is necessary for the book to stand in its place.”

Solzhenitsyn, A.I.
Cancer Ward: A Tale. – M.: Artist. lit., 1990. – 462 p.
One of the characters Alexei Filippovich Shulubin- in his youth, a combat commander, later a “red professor” - a teacher of philosophy. He escaped Stalin's camps, but in freedom he went through all the stages of intimidation and humiliation. In the action of the novel, Shulubin is a librarian, a completely broken, unhappy person. The profession of a librarian turned out to be the extreme limit to which a person could be humiliated. Here's what he says about his life and his real work:
«... Tell me, is man a log?! This log does not care whether it lies alone or next to other logs. And I live in such a way that if I lose consciousness, fall on the floor, die, the neighbors won’t find me even for several days... I’m still careful, I look around! Here's how. That's where they put me... And I graduated from the Agricultural Academy. I also completed higher courses in history and mathematics. I gave lectures in several specialties - all in Moscow. But the oak trees began to fall. Muralov fell at the agricultural academy. Professors were swept away by the dozens. Should I have admitted my mistakes? I recognized them! Should I have renounced? I have renounced! Some percentage survived, right? So I fell into this percentage. I went into pure biology - I found a quiet haven for myself!.. But the purge began there too, and what a purge! They swept through the biology departments. Should I have left the lectures? - ok, I left them. I left to assist, I agree to be small!
– Textbooks of great scientists were destroyed, programs were changed – good, I agree! – we will teach in new ways. They suggested that anatomy, microbiology, and nervous diseases be restructured according to the teachings of an ignorant agronomist and according to gardening practice. Bravo, I think so too, I’m for it! No, you’ll also give up assistantship! - okay, I don’t argue, I’ll be a methodologist. No, the victim is objectionable, and the methodologist is removed - okay, I agree, I will be a librarian, a librarian in distant Kokand! How much I retreated! - but still I’m alive, but my children graduated from college. And they let the librarians down secret lists: destroy books on pseudoscience genetics! destroy all the books of such and such personally! Should we get used to it? Didn’t I myself, from the department of Diamatology a quarter of a century ago, declare the theory of relativity to be counter-revolutionary obscurantism? And I draw up an act, the party organizer, the special unit signs it for me - and we put genetics there, in the oven! leftist aesthetics! ethics! cybernetics! arithmetic!..”

Ehrenburg, I.G. Second day
Collection op. in 8 volumes. T. 3. Fast paced life Lazek Roytshvanec; Second day; Book for adults: Novels. – M.: Artist. lit., 1991. – 607 p.
Looking at the heroine of this novel, the librarian Natalia Petrovna Gorbachev, “People thought she looked like a book bug and that all she had in her head was catalog numbers. To others it seemed like a big ugly letter...
Natalia Petrovna Gorbachev did not save her life, nor the good, nor the revolution. She saved books. She was lonely, middle-aged and ugly. No one even knew her name - they said: librarian. They did not know Natalia Petrovna.
At the beginning of the revolution, it stunned the city. At the Council meeting the question of how to defend the city from the whites was discussed. Chashkin, straining himself, roared: “Comrades, we must die, but save the revolution!” Then a small, frail woman in a knitted scarf climbed onto the stage and shouted: “Take these soldiers away now! They sit downstairs and smoke. A fire could start any minute!..” The chairman sternly interrupted her: “Comrade, what you’re saying is out of order.” But the woman did not let up. She raised her hands in the air and shouted, “Don’t you know that there are dozens of incunabula in our library!” And although no one knew what these “incunabula” were, the people wrapped in machine-gun belts softened: they led the Red Army soldiers out of the library.
Natalya Petrovna spent more than one night at the combat post. It seemed to her that she could defend books from both people and fire. She prayed to the bearded peasants: “This is the people's good! This is such wealth! She shouted at the dapper officers: “You don’t dare talk like that! These are not barracks! This is the Stroganov library!” She tried to understand how to talk to these dissimilar people. They shot at each other. They wanted victory. She wanted to save the books.
The city was cold and hungry. Natalya Petrovna received an eighth of wet bread and slept in a large, completely frozen room. All day she sat in the unheated library. She sat alone - people in those years had no time for books. She was sitting, wrapped in some colorful rags. A sharp nose stuck out of the rags like a branch. The eyes glowed anxiously. Occasionally some eccentric would come into the library. Seeing Natalya Petrovna, he shied away: she looked not like a person, but like an owl.
Once Natalya Petrovna met Professor Chudnev. The professor began to complain of hunger and cold. He also complained about the roughness of life... She interrupted him: “Well, I’m very happy! I have interesting job. I do not understand, Basil Georgievich! So, in your opinion, I should have given up everything? What would happen to the library?
She opened old books and spent a long time admiring the frontispieces. The muses showed wondrous scrolls, and they played lutes. The Titans supported the globe. The goddess of wisdom was accompanied by an owl. Could Natalya Petrovna have guessed that she looked like this sad bird? She looked at the engravings: a dream in summer night or the feat of the Maid of Orleans. Sometimes she was worried about the shape of the letters. She clutched the book to her chest and repeated, as if spellbound: “Elsevier!” When she took the first edition of Baratynsky's poems from the shelf, it seemed to her that it was not a book, but a letter from loved one. Baratynsky consoled her. Then the crafty Voltaire amused her. Next to it were newspapers from the French Revolution. They stood decorously on shelves in beautiful morocco bindings. She looked into these newspapers, and the newspapers shouted: “There is no bread! No fuel! We are surrounded by enemies! We must save the revolution!” She heard people's voices. The dull, yellowed sheets of paper helped her understand that second life that was rustling around the library building. When, exhausted, she was ready to lose heart, she opened Raphael’s “Loggi”, and she froze in the dark, cold library in front of that beauty that neither the loud years nor the small human heart could contain.
A lot of time has passed since then, and the library is filled with noise. She defended the library. Chashkin said, half jokingly and half seriously: “You, Comrade Gorbachev, are a great fellow! You need to be given the Order of the Red Banner.” Natalya Petrovna blushed embarrassedly: “Nonsense! But I want to ask you one thing: get some firewood. The library is sometimes drowned, sometimes not. I’m used to it, but it spoils the books a lot.”
She still did not know peace. Downstairs, under the library, they set up a cinema. Just as the ghost of a fire once haunted Natalya Petrovna, she was afraid that the books would perish from dampness. She was also afraid that people from Moscow would come and take away the most valuable books. She looked at the new readers with disbelief: they turned the pages too casually. She approached them and whispered pitifully: “Comrades, please be careful!” She suffered because none of these people felt the love for books that filled her heart. They took books greedily, like bread, and they had no time to admire.
She wanted to immediately ask him (Volodya Safonov - library reader - B.S.) about everything: why he was confused by Swift, what an extract from Erasmus means, what bindings he likes best, whether he has seen early editions of Shakespeare... But she doesn’t talk about Why didn’t I ask him? She just said again: “You like books, don’t you?” Then Volodya grinned - that’s how he grinned while reading Swift. “You think I like books? I'll tell you frankly: I hate them! It's like vodka. I can't live without books now. There is not a single living place in me. I'm all poisoned... I drank myself to death. Do you understand what it means to fall asleep? Only alcoholics are treated. And there is no cure for this. Nonsense, but true. If it were in my power, I would set fire to your library. I would bring kerosene, and then a match. Oh, how good that would be! Imagine...” He didn’t finish his sentence: he looked at Natalya Petrovna and immediately fell silent. She was shaking as if with a fever. Volodya asked: “What’s wrong with you?” She didn't answer. “You need water... Please calm down!..” Natalya Petrovna was silent. Then Volodya shouted: “Hey, comrade! You should give me some water!..” Servant Fomin brought a mug full to the top. He muttered: “They did it!” She had a ration - the cat cried. Grams!
It’s scary to look at: skin and bones.” Natalya Petrovna, having come to her senses, said: “Take away the water - you can soak the books.” Then she looked sternly at Safonov: “Go away! You are the worst. You are a barbarian. You are an arsonist." Volodya awkwardly wrinkled his cap in his hand and left.
Sobbing awkwardly, Natalya Petrovna said: “Books are a big thing! He said this in vain, they cannot be burned, they must be stored. You, comrade... What's your name? Valya? You, Valya, are going to the real truth. I will now show you wonderful books. Let’s go up there!”
She led the girl to the top floor. The most valuable books were kept there, and Natalya Petrovna never allowed visitors there. She immediately wanted to show Valya everything: Baratynsky, and the French Revolution, and Minerva with the owl. She said: “Here, take this big one. You are stronger than me. I can’t lift it – I’m very weak. There is not enough bread. But this is nothing. I'm not complaining about anything. On the contrary, I'm so happy! This one... Give it here, quickly! This is Raphael's "Lodge". Look - what a beauty, what a beauty!..."...
Agree, a pure, holy image.

Shukshin, V. M. Until the third roosters
Until the third rooster: The tale of Ivan the Fool, how he went to distant lands to gain wisdom - reason. – M.: Sov. Russia, 1980. – 96 p., ill.
In the fairy tale, the revived literary heroes call the librarian “vulgarite,” and the content of the conversation she conducts not only does not attract fans to the heroine, but quite the opposite, makes the image of a female librarian primitive and vulgar:
“Once in one library, in the evening, at about six o’clock, the characters of a Russian classical literature. Even when the librarian was there, they looked at her with interest from their shelves - they waited. The librarian finally talked to someone on the phone... She spoke strangely, the characters listened and did not understand. We were surprised.
“No,” said the librarian, “I think it’s millet.” He's a goat... Let's go and trample. A? No, well, he's a goat. We'll trample, right? Then we’ll go to Vladik... I know that he is a ram, but he has “Grundik” - we’ll sit... The seal will come too, then this one will... an owl... Yes, I know that they are all goats, but we have to spend time somehow! Well, well... I'm listening...
“I don’t understand anything,” someone in a top hat—either Onegin or Chatsky—said quietly to his neighbor, a heavy landowner, apparently Oblomov. Oblomov smiled:
- They're going to the zoo.
- Why are they all goats?
– Well... apparently it’s ironic. Pretty. A? The gentleman in the top hat winced:
- Vulgarite.
“Give me all the French girls,” Oblomov said with disapproval. - It looks good to me. With legs - they came up with a good idea. A?
“Very much... that...,” a bewildered-looking gentleman interrupted the conversation, clearly Chekhov's character.– It’s too short. Why so?
Oblomov laughed quietly:
- Why are you looking there? Just don't look.
- What do I really need? – Chekhov’s character was embarrassed. - Please. Why did we just start from the feet?
- What? - Oblomov did not understand.
- To be reborn.
“Where are they reborn from?” asked a satisfied Oblomov. - From the feet, brother, and they begin.
“You don’t change,” the Shattered One remarked with hidden contempt.
Oblomov laughed quietly again.
- Volume! Volume! Listen here!” the librarian shouted into the phone. - Listen! He's a goat! Who has a car? Him? No seriously? – The librarian fell silent for a long time - she listened. – What sciences? – she asked quietly. - Yes? Then I'm a goat myself...
The librarian was very upset... She hung up, sat there just like that, then got up and left. And she locked the library.”

Volodin, A. Idealist.
For theater and cinema: plays. – M. – Art, 1967. – 312 p.
"She's sitting(librarian, main character of the play - B.S.) at his table and, a little shyly, says:
– Our library dates back to nineteen twenty-six. Then we were not far from here, in a small old church. However, the library was just a name. The books were piled so high that the doors could not be opened. No catalog, no forms, nothing.
But I wanted to tell about our readers...”
And she tells how she first met one of her longtime readers, S.N. Baklazhanov, who has now become a professor and a major scientist:
« –Social background–employee, social status–student... This was the first university student within the walls of our library. (Looking at Baklazhanov.) I had an ambivalent attitude towards university students. On the one hand, I respected them, but at the same time, it was among them that decadence and moral depravity were encountered. I must admit, Baklazhanov confirmed my fears.
–Lev Gumilyovsky, “Dog Lane” is there?
–No.
–Is there Panteleimon Romanov, “Without Bird Cherry”?
–We don't have this story.
–Sergey Malashkin, “The Moon is on the Right Side”?
–Also no.
–Then I don’t ask “Mary Magdalene.”
–And you are doing the right thing.
–What do you have then?
–If you are only interested in literature of this kind, then this should disappoint you.
–What kind is this?
–First of all–artistically primitive.
–In any case, the most pressing issues of our lives are resolved here. All these dislocations, decomposition–why should we remain silent about this? This is a fear of criticism.
–Or maybe what interests you in these books is not criticism, but something completely different? Ambiguous love descriptions?..
The librarian said this simply, softly, and Baklazhanov was a little embarrassed.
–This is a natural need to understand a number of problems without philistine hypocrisy.
–The "glass of water" theory?
–Yes, I believe that under communism, satisfying the need for love will be as easy as drinking a glass of water. This will save a huge amount of emotional energy.
–And yet it will not happen the way you imagine.
–How do you know how I imagine it?
The librarian waved her hand.
–But still! But still!..
She nevertheless decided to enter into an argument.
–So you are saying that there is no love? Is there a physiological phenomenon of nature?
–Yes, I affirm.
–Well, confirm it. Have you chosen books?
–What are you saying? What are you claiming?
–Don't shout, there's a library here.
–I expressed my point of view, and you evaded. Why?
–Because I'm tired of it.
–This is not an argument.
–If all this was said by some Don Juan, it would still be understandable. When you say this–I just find it funny.
–This is also not an argument.
–I know it's fashionable to be rude and promiscuous these days. Well, I'll be unfashionable. I know how easily some people get together for a week and how they laugh at those who are looking for something more in love.
–Something is missing, something is a pity, something the heart rushes into the distance. The purest water idealism.
–Let it be idealism. Baklazhanov was delighted, burst out laughing, pointed his finger at her, and sat down.
–Yeah!
–What?
–So, are you an idealist? Yes?
–Why?
–You said it yourself! Looking for something more, otherworldly? Tell me, are you looking? Or are you not looking? Are you looking or not looking?
–Looking for!
–Did you find it?
–Found it!
–Wow! Yeah! Ha-ha!.. Okay, I forgive you... So there are no books?
–No.
–Library!
–Such as there is.
–Keep the form as a keepsake.
He leaves humming."
This first meeting-dialogue of theirs is all about our heroine. The author does not even mention her name. She is an idealist (also one of the stereotypes of public opinion about the librarian profession). Next, the heroine retells several more dialogues with this reader and with his son, who also became a reader of her library. You really become convinced that neither age nor life’s adversities have changed her romantic perception of the world.

Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia // Zvezda. – 1998. – No. 9. – p. 33-104.
The action in the story takes place in our days. Her heroine Polina, a librarian by profession, “ speaks English and French... she has it all together great material (for his dissertation - B.S.), you just need to rummage a little in the German archives....”
« By the way, just last night Polina had a dream prophetic dream... Her house is on fire, the flames are already rising from below, from the basement, the fire is raging in the kitchen, in the hallway, and she cannot escape. Well, I recognize you, life, I accept you, and I greet you with the ringing of the shield. They won’t take you back to the library, although you can go to another, simpler one, and no longer communicate with academics...” She is an intelligent, decisive modern woman (the type of the new Russian librarian) and, very importantly, very well read - “ All my life I did nothing but read books" At the same time, she is horrified by the surrounding lack of spirituality, drug addiction, prostitution: “... under the communists... there was order... you could watch TV. And now we are showing sex films... one wonders where this disgusting thing came from?. Disappointed with reality, Polina leaves for Germany to join her fiancé. However, even there she does not find peace: the German man is too calculating, there are also prostitutes and drug addicts there... The end of the story is tragic. Polina dies in a car accident.
This story is symbolic. In it, one of the first in Russian modern literature, the image of a librarian is endowed with high intellectual potential, capable of communicating on equal terms with the color of the nation (in this case, academicians).

Tolstaya, T. Russia's choice
Tolstaya, N.N. Tolstaya, T.N.
Two: different. – M.: Podkova, 2001. – 480 p.
« Svetlana worked as a bibliographer at central library, sat in the corner at a table. Before that, she spent three years in new arrivals. The far-sighted gaze of the reader, looking up from the scientific notes, wandering through the shelves, came across Svetlana, but did not linger on her. Thin, colorless, unmarried.” Yes, unfortunately, there is nothing more eternal than social stereotypes.
But here we are shown a completely different psychotype of our profession: an activist, a fighter for our own place in the sun, which is not typical for a woman. Yes, yes, a librarian appears on the stage - a man. Meet the manager. IBA Dolinsky, “running for local government...”
From the brochure with the candidate’s biography:
"Dolinsky Yuri Zinovievich
Born in 1953. Having graduated from the Herzen Institute in absentia, he cast his lot in with interlibrary exchange. He devotes his free time to literary creativity. One of the authors of the poetry collection “Colors of the Pre-Alps”. Divorced. Raises twin sons.
Yuri Zinovievich's motto:
talk less, work more,
return the bookseller to the district,
do ut des (I give (to you) so that (you) will give (to me). (Latin)."
Colleagues, congratulations: “ Location on(electoral – B.S.) Dolinsky passed... however, with a minimal margin.”

Ulitskaya, L. Sonechka // New World. – 1992. – No. 7. - With. 61-89.
I first read about the story “Sonechka” in one of our professional publications. The author of the article wrote: “One of my favorite heroines kept screaming: “I am the Seagull!” I am Chaika!”, and I am Sonechka. I'm the librarian." And further: “Sonechka” is the anthem of our profession, an anthem in prose that must be read while standing. “Sonechka” is our honor and glory. “Sonechka” is our main and favorite thought about a librarian.”
Reading this story gave me a double feeling. Indeed, Lyudmila Ulitskaya brought out the bright, surprisingly selfless character of the librarian Sonechka: “ For twenty years, from seven to twenty-seven, Sonechka read almost without a break. She fell into reading as if in a faint, ending with the last page of the book. ... She had an extraordinary talent for reading, and perhaps a kind of genius. Her responsiveness to the printed word was so great that fictional characters stood on a par with living, close people... What was it - a complete misunderstanding of the game inherent in any art, a lack of imagination, leading to the destruction of the boundary between the fictional and the real, or , on the contrary, such a selfless departure into the realm of the fantastic that everything remaining outside its boundaries lost its meaning and content?..."
Quite unsightly appearance of our heroine: “...her nose was really pear-shaped and vague, and Sonechka herself, lanky, broad-shouldered, with dry legs and a skinny butt that had served time, had only one thing - large woman’s breasts, which had grown early and were somehow out of place attached to her thin body...” (why is a woman librarian in fiction, and even in cinema, always, to put it mildly, unattractive?) – predetermined her work in the library. Our Sonechka would have remained absolutely indifferent to the natural joys of life until the end of her days.” in a state of incessant reading... in the basement storage of the old library", if not for the war and the subsequent evacuation to Sverdlovsk. Here in the library, an elderly reader, a former artist who had lived through five years of Stalin’s camps, drew attention to her, to the depth of her eyes. There followed a lightning-fast proposal and an equally quick, unexpected for her, agreement on her part.
Sonechka gave all of herself to her family: her husband, her soon-to-be daughter, and organizing the house: “Everything about Sonechka has changed so completely and deeply, as if her old life had turned away and taken everything bookish with it...” In a word " over the years of her marriage, Sonechka herself turned from an exalted girl into a rather practical housewife... she grew old quickly and ugly... but the bitterness of aging did not poison Sonechka’s life, as happens with proud maidens: the unshakable seniority of her husband left her with an enduring feeling of her own unfading youth...."
Thanks to Sonechka, her constant attention and care, her husband’s talent as an artist blossomed, and what seemed like an impossible thing happened: the former camp inmate became a member of the Union of Artists, receiving an apartment and an art studio in Moscow as confirmation of his merits . Simultaneously with the public recognition of her husband, her daughter also grew up, turning into a lanky, clumsy teenager, who in life was most interested in, as they say now, gender relations (relationships between the sexes).
Daughter Tanechka, having once met an orphan, a Polish woman, whose communist parents moved to Soviet Russia from the fascist invasion, brought her friend to live at her home. “Her presence was pleasant for Sonya and caressed her secret pride - to shelter an orphan, it was a good deed and a pleasant fulfillment of duty.” In a word, my daughter’s friend became a member of the family, a second child.
I think everyone already understood what happened next. The beloved husband fell in love with a young white Polish woman, without intending to leave his “old” wife. What did Sonechka do? In the spirit of the best traditions of the humility of F. Dostoevsky’s heroines, she not only silently experiences the situation, but even feels joy for her husband, noting his rejuvenated figure and surge in creative activity. After his sudden death, Sonechka again takes this girl to her home, treating her like a daughter.
I will not impose my opinion on the character of the main character, but I am sure that not every one of us librarians will agree to consider Sonechka an ideal example of our profession.
The length of a journal article does not allow me to demonstrate all the examples of the image of a librarian that I could find in fiction. Therefore, I tried to select the most typical ones. I think there is no reason to be particularly happy. The image and reputation of our profession in society is quite lackluster (there is no other definition). This is undoubtedly our fault, it’s time to finally make the library open, “transparent” for the population and the authorities; The time has come for librarians to change themselves, their professional, or, even more broadly, their social consciousness. Let's be proud of ourselves, our work, and then, I'm sure, other literary characters will appear who can become role models.
In conclusion, I propose to continue developing the topic, but using examples from articles, interviews, analytical reviews published in periodicals. As a “seed”, I offer a paragraph from the article A. Fenko. Test of strength(Power. – 2002. – No. 14. – P. 58-61):
«... Passion for the game(gambling, on the verge of pathology - B.S. .) are associated, for example, with a propensity to take risks or the need for thrills. Sociological research shows that in gambling There are two types of people who play most often. Most of them have very quiet and even boring professions (accountant, librarian, veterinarian), while the rest are engaged in professional activities associated with high risk (police officers, stockbrokers, surgeons). The first ones do this due to a lack of thrills in Everyday life, and for the latter, risk-taking is a stable character trait.”
As they say, no comments.

2. Bernard Hannah Miss Librarian The humble librarian Erin has lost all hopes of finding the right and loving husband. Now she dreams only of a child. And no men, no romances!

3. Belyaeva L. I. Seven years don’t count

4. Bradbury, Ray `And the army of evil spirits appeared...` (fiction, about a male librarian)

5. Bulgakov M.A. How much Brockhaus can the body tolerate?

6. Volodin A. Idealist

7. Galin A. M. Librarian

8. Gorbunov N.K. Report

9. Goryshin G. Thirty years

10. Grekova I. Summer in the city

11. Dubrovina T., Laskareva E. `Aerobatics` Librarian Masha no longer believed in the possibility of happiness - fate never spoiled her with gifts. And suddenly happiness itself literally fell on her head. The pilot from the crashed plane turned out to be the one and only loved one. My head was spinning with delight. But lies, the machinations of envious people and stupid accidents prevent the timid, long-awaited feeling, whose name is love, from growing stronger in her heart...

12. Elizarov M. `Librarian` bookz.ru/authors/elizarov-mihail/bibliote_873.html Russian Booker Literary Prize for best novel 2008
13. Ilyin V.A. I love you life

14. Kaverin V.A. Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilievsky Island (many pages in the novel are devoted to libraries)

15. Kazakov Yu. House under the steep slope

16. Kassil L. A. The heart of the library: Essay.

17. Kuznetsov A. Fire

18. Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia
The action in the story takes place in our days. Her heroine Polina is a librarian by profession. Disappointed with reality, Polina leaves for Germany to join her fiancé. However, even there she does not find peace: the German man is too calculating, there are also prostitutes and drug addicts there...

19. Karavaeva A A. Measure of happiness

20. Karelin L. V. Microdistrict

21. Lidin V.G. The book is immortal A story about the head of a regional library who managed to preserve a considerable part of the library collection under occupation conditions

22. Litvinov Anna and Sergey Odnoklassniki smerti. Readers will once again meet the Litvinovs' favorite characters - journalist Dmitry Poluyanov and his fiancee Nadya Mitrofanova. They find themselves at the epicenter of mysterious events. Nadya is a sweet girl, but very correct and predictable. And how can a modest librarian surprise you? Therefore, when Nadya’s former classmate died, Dima had no doubt: it was an accident. It is not clear why the bride is nervous and begs him to investigate the girl’s death. At first glance, there are no mysteries: an ordinary domestic murder. But Nadya insists on an investigation. Intrigued, Poluyanov takes up this case and very soon finds out: it turns out that the quiet Nadezhda in the past led a life very far from the current exemplary one. And she made powerful enemies for herself - so serious that even now, ten years later, her life is in danger...

23. Likhanova A.A. Children's Library (The library is shown through the eyes of wartime children)

24. Matveev M.Yu. Book people in Russian literature of the twentieth century How libraries, librarians, and bibliophiles are represented in Russian fiction of the twentieth century www.library.ru/3/reflection/articles/matveev_01.php www.spbguki.ru/files/Avt_Matveev_1243239702.doc

25. Musatov A.I. Ostroh Bible

26. Nekrasov V.P. In my hometown

27. Rasputin V. G. Fire

28. Rekemchuk A. Thirty six and six

29. Russians, Anna. A woman in search of a way out of a dead end [Text]: story / A. Russkikh // Neva. - 2008. - No. 3. - P. 123-138 The tragic fate of a female librarian: her husband’s drunkenness and cruelty, problems with her son, the death of her son. magazines.russ.ru/neva/2008/3/ru5.html

30. Rybakova S. Parish librarian www.hram-ks.ru/RS_rassk_v1.shtml

31. Semenov T.V. Street lights

32. Senchin Roman Eltyshev (Friendship of Peoples. 2009. No. 3,4) Valentina Viktorovna, the mother of a family that is steadily heading towards complete destruction, is also a librarian, an elderly woman, tired and heavy. We will never see her with a book: such a familiar way Losing yourself in hopeless everyday life does not occur to either the author or the heroine. We cannot discern in her a single glimmer of bookish (in the sense of high) principles and values. From time to time she remembers who wrote such and such a book that she once gave out. Without remembering, he quickly calms down

33. Solzhenitsyn, A.I. `Cancer Ward` One of the characters is a certain Alexey Filippovich Shulubin, a military commander in his youth, later a red professor and teacher of philosophy. He escaped Stalin's camps, but in freedom he went through all the stages of intimidation and humiliation. In the novel, Shulubin is a librarian, a completely broken, unhappy person.

34. Strekhnin Yu. F. There are women in Russian villages

35. Tikhonov N.S. Fearless book lovers Essay about a lieutenant who collected books under German fire in the ruins of Peterhof

36. Ulitskaya L. `Sonechka` Lyudmila Ulitskaya brought out the bright, surprisingly selfless character of the librarian Sonechka. The heroine of `Sonechka`, as if in a long-term faint, reads books voraciously, but the reality of life - love, family, motherhood - knocks her out of reading Old age sets in: she dies husband, daughter leaves, and her soul returns to great literature, which gives food for the soul, reconciliation, pleasure

37. Umberto Eco `The Name of the Rose` The learned monk William of Baskerville with his disciple Adson arrives at the Franciscan monastery to investigate the series mysterious murders. His investigation leads him into the depths of the abbey's vast library, and the murders, as he discovers, were committed because of a rare copy of the second part of Aristotle's Poetics, dedicated to comedy and laughter.

38. Esther Friesner Death and the Librarian How many times have we already come across this plot: Death comes for his next victim and leaves, slurping unsaltedly, but, as can be seen from this story, the plot is far from exhausted. Esther Friesner managed to create her own without any effort similar story this now classic meeting, while giving Death a number of unusual features.

39. Chernokov M. Books. The bizarre world of bibliophiles of pre-revolutionary Russia appears on the pages of this novel

40. Shaginyan M. S. A day in the Leningrad Public Library

41. Shargorodskaya Inna Hunt for Ovechkin Fairy tale story, which happened to the modest librarian Mikhail Anatolyevich Ovechkin on the border of parallel worlds and the very real St. Petersburg.

42. Shukshin V. M. Psychopath

43. Ehrenburg I. G. Day two, Until the third roosters, Confidant reader

44. Yakovlev Yu. Ya. Knights of the book

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1 Department of Culture and Site Protection cultural heritage Vologda region Budgetary cultural institution of the Vologda region Vologda Regional Children's Library Innovative and methodological department The image of a librarian through the prism of fiction Vologda

2 Dear colleagues! The methodological manual that you are holding in your hands is devoted to one of the factors influencing the formation of a library image, namely the positioning of the librarian and the library in literary works. It’s no secret to you and me that modern librarians need to actively market themselves and their role in society. At the same time, it is very important to know how others evaluate us and our work, since the status of the library directly depends on this. Public opinion and the idea is formed by the media, cinema and fiction, where the librarian or library appears to one degree or another. We invite you to “get acquainted” with our book colleagues and heroes of works of fiction. The images presented by the authors are very different, sometimes even negative: from a noble zealot for librarianship to a bloodthirsty monster 2

3 Contents: I. Book people. Who? Where? When? 4 P. II. Variety of genres. Variety of images...10 P. III. List of resources used.37 P. 3

4 “What if I’m better than my reputation?” Beaumarchais P.O., French playwright I. Book people. Who? Where? When? The image of modern librarians is directly related to their professional existence. If earlier librarians who did their job well could be confident in the future, today we should think about how our profession and the library are perceived by others, what stereotypical image of a librarian has formed at the moment. In addition, we cannot talk about the development of our professional consciousness until we know enough about ourselves. Most researchers note a significant discrepancy on this issue between the views of librarians and the views of society. Ivanova T.V., head of the library of the International Educational School “Integration XXI Century”, defines this disagreement as status-it: as the status quo should be: how others perceive us. In relation to the library profession it looks like this. Status-it: business woman, professional, information manager. Status quo: “gray mouse”, not a professional in this field, a random person in the library. Kalegina O.A., Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences, Professor of the Kazan State University of Culture and Arts, notes that “prestige is significantly influenced by the stereotypes of the library profession that are formed among people on the basis artistic images represented in various forms of art, especially literature and cinema.” We will focus on examining the image of a librarian in fiction. Matveev M.Yu., senior researcher at the Department of the History of Librarianship of the Russian National Library, Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences, considering this topic, speaks as follows: “fiction quite often describes the reasons why a library becomes attractive or, conversely, repels talented people" 4

5 “With all the abundance of stereotypes and unattractive descriptions, fiction is a very interesting source of information, since the writer’s view always differs from the view of a practicing librarian and a theoretician librarian. This difference allows us to more accurately imagine the place and role of the library profession in society.” “Analysis of various genres of literature makes it possible to most accurately identify characteristic descriptions of libraries and library workers and determine how exactly librarians “appear” as writers to the general public.” Indeed, the opinion of writers is authoritative for society and therefore requires particularly careful consideration, study, analysis and our subsequent response to the formed stereotype. The images of libraries and librarians in Russian and foreign fiction are very interesting and contradictory. The authors of the books note features characteristic of a particular historical period, show the position of libraries in society, and also create purely literary images and associations, stable stereotypes of librarians. Matveev M.Yu. divides all available Russian fiction on this topic into five periods: e late 1910s. Before the revolution, the image of the library in Russian fiction was quite diverse. Libraries are described very positively, and even poetically, although some prerequisites for the spread of negative stereotypes already existed in the past. During this period, pre-revolutionary traditions in the depiction of libraries were still preserved, and at the same time the image of a new, “socialist” librarian arose. 5

6th In relation to works written during the Great Patriotic War or shortly after its end, we can say that they contain the most positive image libraries in all domestic literature. In the 1950s, in addition to military themes, the librarian’s participation in the restoration of the national economy was also described in fiction. In general, the works of the 1990s touching on library topics were few in number: writers paid attention mainly to “heroic” professions, creating the idea of ​​the library profession as the most modest in the world. However, until the end of the 1950s. The image of a librarian was in many ways ideal and often represented a disinterested “knight of the book.” Since the 1960s. began a gradual decline in the prestige of the library profession and the establishment of “library” stereotypes not as individual images, but as sustainable system representations. And although the number of works “featuring” librarians increased during this time period, the number of situations in which libraries and librarians were depicted was small. This allows us to talk about a certain monotony of writing approaches. The library is not depicted in itself, but only as the most common cultural institution that appears during the construction of any large industrial plant or new city. In this case, the librarian most often turns out to be a positive hero, but he is shown not as a professional, but rather simply as a person actively participating in public life and involved in some kind of conflict (with officials, construction managers, etc.). One of the most common stereotypes in fiction is an acquaintance in a library that develops into love story. Another stereotypical plot is the successful work of distributing e.g. beginning of the 21st century In the 1990s. and at the beginning of the 21st century. descriptions of librarians have undergone changes: the motives of poverty and unsettled personal life have become more emphasized. The influence of trends characteristic of foreign literature of the twentieth century has also become more noticeable. (fear of book knowledge, the relationship of the library with the end of the world, etc.). Since the 1990s. The moral ideal of the librarian also began to erode. 6

7 In domestic fiction related to the library profession, M.Yu. Matveev identifies the following characteristic images of librarians: 1) Ascetic or saint. This is the type of righteous librarian who does not pay attention to need and hunger, thinking only about the well-being of the library in which he works. Such librarians see their life's purpose and happiness in preserving books for future generations and helping people by providing them with knowledge and information. More often than not, this image is quite positive, but in some cases such “holiness” leads to tragicomic situations. 2) An idealist who dreams of introducing all readers to the “reasonable, good, eternal.” Librarians of this type want to see only “serious” literature in the hands of their readers. 3) Does not agree with the political system and the existing orders in society. Such librarians view the library as a forced refuge, the lowest rung of the social ladder. 4) An honest and poor worker. This is the most common type of librarian. Images of librarians in fiction very easily turn into stereotypes when the same situation is “duplicated” in many works or when superficial (and very offensive) descriptions of the library profession begin to prevail. Thus, the librarian, as portrayed by many writers, is an eccentric hermit who does nothing but “read books.” His appearance, as a rule, is caricatured (and he, in fact, does not take care of his appearance), his work is monotonous, and he has no prospects. Similar stereotypes can be found in those works where the image of the librarian is quite positive, even noble. Foreign literature has two main differences from domestic literature: the images of libraries and librarians among foreign 7

8 authors, on the one hand, are brighter and more noticeable, but on the other, much more unattractive. According to foreign researchers, most of the common international stories associated with libraries and their workers arose in the period between the two world wars, i.e. from about 1914 to 1939. Originally, it was a young girl who dreams of escaping the dark and gloomy library. In the 1920s this image was supplanted by the images of the “old maid” and the “old hag.” At the end of the 1940s, as well as in the 20s. There were no significant changes in the image of the librarian (as well as the library) in literature. Writers often portrayed librarians as mentally unstable individuals, and the library as a symbol of the collapse of life plans. In the years existing stereotypes persist. They continue to exist on the pages of novels, and this is not prevented even by their slight correspondence with reality. One of the main reasons for this situation is that writers deliberately “exaggerate” due to the external “routineness” of the profession. Attitude towards libraries foreign writers, in general, is very complex: a positive assessment of their activities can coexist with the image of a crypt, reverence for the book temple with recognition of its isolation from life, etc. Thus, in foreign literature three “types” of librarians can be distinguished: 1) Strict old a maiden doing monotonous and uninteresting work. 2) A “male creature” of indeterminate age with a number of mental or physical disabilities, a large bald head and massive glasses. 3) A young girl (less often a young man) seeking to change her field of activity. 4) The image of an eccentric bibliophile who “moved over” from literature of the 19th century V. into the literature of the twentieth century. The appearance of a book collector, as a rule, is caricatured or falsely respectable, and his role most often turns out to be tragicomic. Ultimately, the image of a bibliophile is little more than 8

9 differs from the image of a librarian, and the mutual negative effect of this only intensifies. “Male” and “female” stereotypes of a librarian are, in principle, international, but domestic authors describe a male librarian not as a comic, but rather as a tragicomic figure. Female characters can be both passive and active, but they still have one common feature that is characteristic of Russian literature: they often think about the usefulness of their profession. In foreign literature, the “female” stereotype of a library worker arose later than the “male” one, but it quickly became dominant due to the peculiarities of the development of the profession. Books in which libraries and librarians occupy a central place, as well as works in which they are mentioned occasionally, are numerous and varied. M.Yu. Matveev identifies some general patterns inherent in domestic authors when revealing the image of a librarian when describing a library: 1. Domestic authors quite often present librarians as positive heroes, but at the same time, as a rule, their personal qualities are described, not professional ones. The library usually appears when the librarian hero first appears on the pages of the book, and further mentions of it, as a rule, are episodic. 2. Authors most often show library issues in the context of other problems and plot collisions. Moreover, the larger the writer, the more varied and sharper the criticisms addressed to the library. 3. The work of the library seems to most authors to be quite monotonous and monotonous, and therefore very difficult to depict. 4. Occasional references to librarians in fiction are often superficial and unattractive. However, with a detailed description of the activities of the library, the writer reveals a lot of paradoxes and contradictions inherent in the library profession. For many years, foreign literature continues to maintain a negative image of the library and the librarian. A 9

10 the library profession is often criticized, even in those works where the work of libraries is described quite objectively and not even without the author’s sympathy. II. Variety of genres. Diversity of images As for literary genres, when considering books describing a librarian, in this regard, one can encounter great diversity. It turns out that a librarian can be “met” in science fiction, detective stories, and horror books. Below we provide a detailed description of one or two books in a particular genre with a list of works 1 in which book, reading, library, librarian are found. The books we present in this chapter vary both in genre and in the time of writing. However, the images of librarians presented by the authors in these works differ from each other like day from night. It’s not for nothing that they say: “How many people, so many opinions.” Literature for children and teenagers Due to the fact that the children's library works primarily for child readers, we include literature for children and teenagers in a separate group. These works, written in different genres (adventures, children's fiction, historical stories, etc.), also feature a librarian and a library. Bogdanova I.A. Life in full view: a story / I.A. Bogdanov. M.: Siberian Blagozvonnitsa, p. The book takes place during the reign of Tsar Nicholas II. The author tells the story of the life of a ten-year-old boy, Timoshka, who, having become orphaned, did not want to remain “an extra mouth” for his aunt, who constantly reproached him, and ran away to Gatchina. There, by the will of fate, the boy finds 1 The lists are compiled on the basis of materials from sites (links are indicated in the list of used resources) and do not claim to be complete. 10

11 the named father of the doctor Pyotr Sergeevich Mokeev and kind aunt Sima, with whom he later moved to St. Petersburg. The boy surprises the reader with his good nature, forgiveness and desire to help everyone. His kind heart became the reason that Timofey made many friends. And, it seems, everything is in order: Timka has a family, friends, he begins to study at the gymnasium. But trouble happened - the Russo-Japanese War. During the war, Timka and his friends did not sit idly by, but provided all possible assistance to wounded soldiers. However, this is not about war. As stated above, Timoshka had many friends, and one of them was Seva, the son of Prince Yezersky. The prince, as a wealthy man, was the owner of a large home library, under which he served as a librarian. The reader first meets the librarian in the second part of the book, when Seva and Timoshka go to the library to look at reproductions of battle painter V.V. Vereshchagin, whom Timka met when he and his friends held a charity fundraiser for the benefit of war victims. The artist Vereshchagin and Seva’s father, Prince Yezersky, died in the war in the same battle. And now Seva, aware that they have reproductions of the artist, invites his friend to visit the library, which his great-great-grandfather began to collect during the time of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. And so we see the librarian Apollo Sidorovich, “a stocky bald man with a large pear-shaped nose, dressed in an old-fashioned frock coat.” At the same time, the author notes that the expression “as beautiful as Apollo” does not apply to this person at all. The librarian treats books very carefully and lovingly. Before picking up a book, he puts on snow-white knitted gloves (which he also requires from boys), and after his friends have looked at the album with reproductions, Apollo Sidorovich examines the sheets under a magnifying glass: “You should have looked at it more carefully, your Excellency, here you deigned to leave speck. This way you will throw all your precious inheritance into dust. Books are not bricks for you.” The librarian once accused Timoshka of the fact that the boy came to the “repository of wisdom” with an undone button on his formal gymnastics jacket and thereby showed his disrespect for books. eleven

12 For the second time, Timoshka goes to the library at the request of a wounded soldier who dreamed of reading enticing books: “Infernal Spells” and “Robber Baron.” It is impossible not to note the boy’s respectful attitude towards the librarian: Timka addresses Apollo Sidorovich only as “Mr. Librarian”, “Dear Apollo Sidorovich”. When the boy named the titles of the books he needed, the librarian flew into a rage: “Hell's spell?” - he roared in a voice more like a steamship whistle in the fog. "Robber Baron"! You have come to the wrong address. This is not an embroidery club for maids, but a library of the Yezerski princes. There is no such literature here and there cannot be! Go away! However, when the librarian found out that a wounded soldier needed these books, he quickly changed his anger to mercy and, noting that they don’t have such “stupid little books,” recommended reading the work of A.S. Pushkin's "Belkin's Tale", which the soldiers subsequently read aloud with pleasure to the whole ward. The library, according to Apollo Sidorovich, is a temple filled with the wisdom of the ancestors. For Timoshka, the library with its incredible number of volumes evokes a feeling of awe, and the underground passage hidden from prying eyes, which is hidden behind the bookcase, creates a feeling of mystery and magic. During his third visit to the library, Timoshka became friends with Apollon Sidorovich and became his frequent guest and regular reader of the library. Bogdanova I.A. Life in full view: a story. Book 2 / I.A. Bogdanov. M.: Siberian Blagozvonnitsa, p. The revolution invaded the measured life of Petrograd residents, which, in addition to the overthrow of the Tsar, brought with it a lot of blood, robbery and injustice. The population was divided into “whites” and “reds”. Timoshka, now Timofey, graduated from the Military Medical Academy and worked as a doctor at the hospital of St. Panteleimon. Being not only a doctor, but also the kindest 12

13 souls as a man, Timofey could not join either the “whites” or the “reds”, balancing somewhere in the middle and, if necessary, coming to the aid of both the first and the second. The revolution also affected peaceful library halls. In the mansion of the Yezersky princes, the communists placed the Revolutionary Military Council, and in the library they equipped an interrogation room, having previously ordered the librarian to be kicked out into the street and the books to be distributed to the working people for heating the stoves. Apollon Sidorovich urgently packed the most valuable books. The librarian was indignant: before his eyes, the revolutionary sailors tore the lifetime edition of the poet Trediakovsky into rolled cigarettes! The servant of books would prefer to go blind rather than see this disgrace. Concern about books and the young Prince Yezersky led to the fact that the librarian went to prison, where, after some time, Timofey ended up. The second book very clearly reveals the character of the librarian and his habits. Despite his age, in prison Apollo Sidorovich behaved very well, was cheerful and did not forget for a minute that he was a LIBRARY. And when a new neighbor, the notorious criminal Vasyan, appears in the cell, Apollo Sidorovich has a job. We also learn that the librarian is a real gourmand, and a piece of sugar is always in his pocket! A somewhat childish love for sweets, which seems not to be inherent in the keeper of wisdom, and even more so in such a situation and in such a place (the librarian was in prison), touches the reader. After prison adventures, Apollon Sidorovich joins Timofey's family. Despite constant persecution, lack of money and food, the family sheltered three orphans. And the bachelor Apollon Sidorovich, who had never known family happiness, proved himself to be a loving grandfather and a wise mentor and teacher. From the librarian's conversations with children, his life emerges before he entered the service of Prince Yezersky. Apollo's childhood was spent in poverty. His father, a hunter, disappeared in the forest while trying to catch a valuable white capercaillie. His mother served in the manor’s house, and Apollo owes his name to her and the interiors of this house. On one of the tapestries in the lobby of the manor house, mother saw an image of the god Apollo, which struck her to the depths of her soul, and without hesitation she gave this unusual name to her son. Over small 13

14 The merchant Rassolov took pity on Apollo and took him as his errand boy. The merchant's daughter, Dosifeya Nikandrovna (the mysterious heroine of the first book), noticed the boy's love for books and taught him at the university with her own money. At the request of Dosifeya Nikandrovna, Apollo Sidorovich was accepted into the service of Prince Yezersky. Having no family, the librarian gave all his unspent love to books. The revolution, despite all its bad consequences, brought family happiness to Apollo Sidorovich. About the librarian and the library you can read the following literature for children and teenagers: Aleksin A. Untruth Aleksin A. Diary of Bogdanov’s groom I.A. Life in full view (book 1 and book 2) Brown L. D. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare Dahl R. Matilda Kopfer J. The Very Scary Mrs. Murphy Krapivin V. Orange Portrait with Specks Likhanov A. Children's Library Rodari D. Fairy Tales by Telephone Roy O. Guardians. Lord of books Rowling D. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Fiction, classical, modern, intellectual, philosophical prose Elizarov M.Yu. Librarian / M.Yu. Elizarov. - M.: Ad Marginem Press, p. The book consists of 2 parts. The first explains the general situation and brings the reader up to date, describes the events related to the Books of the writer Gromov. The second is written in the first person (on behalf of the main character-librarian), Alexei Vladimirovich Vyazintsev, and takes place in the 1990s-2000s. 14

15 Mystical story begins with its appearance on bookstore shelves unusual books writer Dmitry Aleksandrovich Gromov. Books bearing seemingly ordinary and meaningless titles actually had a huge psychological impact on readers, however, for this, the reader must read the entire book, without interrupting other matters, and without skipping uninteresting descriptions and digressions. Having discovered the secret of the book, a person trusted it to his comrades and/or relatives. This is how reading rooms appeared (a small formation around a book). A library could arise from the reading room. Conversely, a small library could be reduced to a reading room. The reading rooms lived peacefully, content with what they had, the libraries sought to get as many Gromov books as possible and get rid of competitors, and they did this in any way, sometimes very cruel and bloody. The library also differed from the reading room in that readers had to give part of their salary to search for Books and support organizational structures. A government and management body, the Council of Libraries, was formed, which approved a verdict promising immunity for the reading rooms. However, in reality, the Council often dissolved unwanted reading rooms, assigning readers to the nearest library. Who was called a librarian? The librarian in this case is the head of the reading room and library. The owner of the Book, for various reasons (most often selfish, for example, to dominate others), entrusted his secret to friends, acquaintances, and selected a readership. This is how a reading room or library was formed, which was named after the librarian. The book/books, as well as the position, were inherited or could be entrusted to a person chosen by the readers. Although there were hundreds of reading rooms, libraries, and, accordingly, librarians, the author describes in detail the activities of the more significant ones. Librarian Lagudov. It all started with Lagudov. Literary critic Valerian Mikhailovich Lagudov, having read 2 books by Gromov and feeling their impact, formed a clan (library), into which, with the help of a psychologist, he recruited desperate, depressed people, intellectuals who were in difficult life situations, as well as retired officers and former soldiers who fought in Afghanistan. So his library is 15

16 was a serious combat structure with intelligence and security services. Lagudov jealously guarded his library, considering himself the chosen one and not allowing everyone access to the Books. Despite this, there were thieves and traitors in the library who tried to take away Gromov’s books and use them for personal purposes (runaway readers). Defectors, gossip, missionary activity, knowledge about Gromov spread further and further, and other libraries were founded. There were often skirmishes and fights between libraries over the sale of counterfeit books. By the early nineties, collectors became acquainted with six books, named according to the result of their influence: the Book of Strength, the Book of Power, the Book of Fury, the Book of Patience, the Book of Joy, the Book of Memory. It was also assumed that there was a seventh book of the Book of Meaning. The complete works were viewed as a gigantic spell that was supposed to give some unknown global result. Librarian Shulga. Nikolai Yuryevich Shulga went to prison solely “thanks to” Gromov’s Book of Fury. After reading it, Shulga killed his fellow hunters and his guide, for which he received a prison sentence. His incomplete humanities education and health condition influenced his prison activities; he was appointed librarian. In the camp library, Shulga found another book by Gromov and realized that, using Books, you can influence those around you. With the help of the book, Shulga defended himself from his elders in prison hierarchy and kept humiliated prisoners in his power. Upon release, Nikolai found his camp comrades and began collecting Books. His library was quite dangerous, since Shulga found readers on social day. This library experienced a peaceful split in 1979: two readers wanted personal leadership and power, and Shulga, fearing harm, headed it himself. Librarian Mokhov. Elizaveta Makarovna Mokhova, a proud nurse who worked in the women's department, understood how the Book of Power works after seeing the reaction of her old patients. Furious and cheerful after reading the Book of Old Women and Old Men, Mokhova united some of the medical staff, as well as sectarians, into her library. The principle of collective motherhood and promise eternal life bonded the allies, and gossip at the entrance and the ubiquitous grandmothers-cleaners, grandmothers-watchmen helped Mokhova overtake 16

17 leading libraries in collecting Gromov's books. In fact, the old women showed themselves to be cruel and treacherous, and therefore other libraries considered the Mokhova clan dangerous and created a coalition of 16 libraries and volunteers from reading rooms against her. As a result, the Mokhov army fell. Librarian Vyazintsev. The second part of the book tells about the Shironin reading room, the librarian of which, after the death of his uncle, was Alexey Vladimirovich Vyazintsev, inheriting the Book of Memory and the position of librarian in addition. With dreams of entering the theater, Alexey studied at the Polytechnic, distinguishing himself in the organization of KVNs. The lack of money prevented the realization of his dream in the future, and he entered the Institute of Culture in his hometown to become a director of theatrical performances and celebrations, while working part-time in a television and radio company. Young Vyazintsev from the ship to the ball found himself in a bloody showdown between the reading rooms. Having become a librarian and the owner of the Book of Memory, Alexei delayed the moment of reading for quite a long time and, under any pretext, shirked his official duties. It was not heroism and fearlessness, but shock, wild horror and fear for his own life that prompted Alexei to act in defense of the reading room and pushed him to take office. The attitude of readers towards the new librarian can be regarded as respectful; they always addressed Vyazintseva as “you”, guarded him, fed him and protected him in every possible way. Alexey himself was not ready, like other readers and librarians, to give his life for the emotions and feelings that could be experienced after reading. Yes, he felt some obligations to his newly minted subordinates, but he could not fully understand the fearless people who were ready to give everything for the Book. It was Vyazintsev who received from an unknown sender the seventh, never-before-seen Book of Meaning. Alexey understood the Great Idea of ​​asceticism and the associated individual immortality hidden in the book, which seemed terrible to him. Like any of the readers of Gromov’s books, Vyazintsev and the readers of his library could expect an attack at any moment. Attacks, fights with competitors and bandits, murders and searches, a conflict with the Library Council, the result of which was an escape to a remote village. The rogue reading room was perceived by other reading rooms and libraries 17

18 as easy prey and was attacked more than once, risking losing the Book and life. A restless atmosphere, constant expectation of death, frequent battles, temporary escape from reality when reading Books - such is the life of librarians and readers in the book of Mikhail Elizarov. If we abstract from the fantastic content of the book and transfer the general situation, discarding exaggerations, to real library life, then to some extent one can even envy Gromov’s libraries. Perhaps the problem of competition is too exaggerated, but very obvious parallels arise in the mind when reading. Mutual assistance and mutual assistance are commonplace for librarians. And the positive effect of reading is more than obvious: joining libraries has saved many alcoholics, desperate people and criminals. Librarians who stand to death for every copy of their collection, for the team, for their libraries/reading rooms. Readers who faithfully serve books, ready to defend their librarian and library with sweat and blood. And one can only learn from their ability to attract readers! Ulitskaya L. Sonechka / L. Ulitskaya. M.: Astrel, p. The book tells us about the life story of the librarian Sonechka. Judging by the reviews on blogs dedicated to the literature and works of Lyudmila Ulitskaya, the image of the librarian in this book is very controversial. For some librarians, he is a professional ideal, and Sonechka herself is an object of admiration; for others, such a library employee causes indignation. I will try to approach the description as objectively as possible. Sonechka is a person who reads. Reads a lot and fanatically. For 20 years (from 7 to 27) she read without interruption. At the same time, Sonechka plunged so deeply into the ocean of books that she could no longer decide where the fictional undersea world, and where is the shore of reality. Events happening with the heroes of books and with real people 18

19 living people evoked the same emotions in the girl. For many years, Sonechka considered any work written to be a masterpiece, but over time she learned to understand literature. As for her appearance, Sonechka had a very awkward figure and extraordinary appearance: “her nose was pear-shaped, and Sonechka herself, lanky, broad-shouldered, with dry legs and a skinny butt that had served time, had only one large woman’s breast.” The girl pulled her shoulders together, slouched, wore wide robes and glasses. After graduating from library technical school, Sonechka began working in the basement storage of the old library. The work brought her pleasure, and as the author of the book writes, “Sonya was one of the rare lucky ones, with a slight pain of interrupted pleasure, leaving her dusty and stuffy basement at the end of the working day, not having had time to get enough of the day with either a series of index cards or whitish sheets of demands, who came to her from above, from the reading room, nor with the living weight of volumes falling into her thin hands.” The boss persuaded Sonechka to enter the university at the Faculty of Russian Philology, but the plans of the book lovers were not destined to come true; the war began. Together with her father, Sonechka was evacuated to Sverdlovsk, where she again got a job in a library. Sonechka met her husband Robert Viktorovich in the library, where he came in search of books in French. But one should not assume that the girl, unspoiled by male attention, was instantly attracted by the intellectual level of the male reader. At the beginning, the librarian was only concerned about whether she was making a mistake by handing over to the reader books that she had the right to release only to the reading room. Her first and last experience of communication with the opposite sex took place during her school years and turned out to be extremely unsuccessful. Since then, having decided not to show her nose in real life anymore, Sonechka plunged headlong into books. However, the well-read young lady could not resist the wedding gift presented during the second meeting (again in the library) (her portrait, personally drawn by Robert Viktorovich) and the marriage proposal. The hasty marriage took place during the first war winter. 19

20 Sonechka’s forty-seven-year-old husband, a consumer and woman lover afraid of dependence and responsibility, was in exile in Sverdlovsk after 5 years in the camp. He worked as an artist in the factory management. Before his imprisonment, Robert Viktorovich lived in France and painted pictures there. It is worth noting that after the artist’s death, his paintings gained fame in France. Sonechka and her husband’s ideas about a good life did not coincide. Robert Viktorovich was used to making do with little, so he considered the windowless room in the basement of the plant administration to be excellent. Sonechka wanted “a normal human home with a water tap in the kitchen, with a separate room for her daughter, with a workshop for her husband, with cutlets, compotes, and white starched sheets.” In the name of the goal she set for herself, Sonechka worked two jobs and saved money secretly from her husband. Robert Viktorovich was never puzzled by everyday, economic and material issues and chose very unprofitable professions (accountant, bookkeeper, watchman). However, the most terrible discovery for the reading Sonechka was not this discrepancy in views on life, but the fact that her husband was completely indifferent to Russian literature! Thus, from a sublime girl, Sonya turned into a practical housewife. Her husband and daughter Tanya seemed to her like undeserved female happiness. It seems that Sonechka finds her own life incredible, as if she had read it in some book. “I read” that my husband became interested in his daughter’s young friend, and the impressions are the same: after reading it, it’s entertaining, incredible, but the current situation doesn’t worry her too much, and perhaps even pleases and intrigues her, like the plot interesting book. main character only temporarily “emerges” from the depths of books to create a family. But just as Sonechka’s life journey began with “swimming” on the ocean of books, so it ends with immersion in it. Grubman V. Librarian: dreams [Electronic resource] / V. Grubman. Access mode: This story by the modern Israeli writer Vladimir Grubman is located on three pages A 4 format, but it seems as if I just read a thick volume of pages. Because, plunging into the dream of the main character - 20

21 librarians, you are transported into the future and, as if you are experiencing an entire era. The imagination non-stop draws pictures of what is happening in the new information society. These are the problems and experiences that concern the librarian of the university library in North-Eastern Jerusalem of the 20th century. The librarian, oddly enough, is a man. Mountains, seascapes, calm, measured, routine library work, familiar, unchanging conversations with a colleague, a peaceful reading of Britannica flow into a restless and anxious sleep. The problems that concern book guardians in the era of beginning computerization are not new: ungrateful children, the closure of a library school, people who do not read, etc. A hyperbolic dream shows what, in the librarian’s opinion, a mass rejection of books could result in. Digital repositories were created, books gradually disappeared, and then people began to disappear. The Computer Brain has modified many life phenomena. But, as it turned out, this is just a dream, for now a dream. We also advise you to read the following works: Aksyonov V. Moscow saga Akutagawa R. In the land of the merman Antonov S. Librarian Babel I. Public Library Byatt A. Possess Barikko A. Locks of Wrath Barnes D Pilcher House Belyaeva L.I. Seven years do not count Beniksen V. Genacid Borges H. L. Library of Babylon Bronte S. Shirley Bulgakov M.A. How much Brockhaus can the body tolerate? Bulgakov M.A. Librarian Bunin I. Life of Arsenyev Banks I. Steps on glass Volodin A. Idealist Hesse G. Bookish man Ginzburg E. Steep route Gorbunov N.K. Report Gorenshtein F. Chok-Chok 21

22 Grekova I. Summer in the city of Grishkovets E. Darwin Dovlatov S. Zona Elizarov M. Librarian Zvyagina N. Voroshilov Zoshchenko M. Craving for reading Ilyin I. Singing heart. Book of quiet contemplations Kaverin V.A. Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilyevsky Island Kalashnikova V. Nostalgia Karavaeva A.A. The measure of happiness Kassil L.A. The heart of the library Kuznetsov A. Ogon Karelin L.V. Microdistrict Konichev K.I. Bookworm Coelho P. Veronica decides to die Coelho P. Eleven minutes Crowley D. Egypt Krzhizhanovsky S. Bookmark Kundera M. The unbearable lightness of being Likhanov A. The highest measure Lou E. The best country in the world or facts about Finland Myron W. Dewey. The cat from the library that shocked the whole world Miller G. Plexus Moreira R. de S. Bookman Murakami H. Wonderland without brakes and the End of the World Musatov A. I. Ostrog Bible Nabokov V. Invitation to execution Orwell D. Memoirs of a bookseller Pavich M. Khazar dictionary (male version) Rampa L. Light the fire Rasputin V.G. Fire Rekemchuk A. Thirty-six and six Rio M. Rubin Archipelago D. Handwriting of Leonardo Russkikh A. A woman looking for a way out of a dead end Rybakova S. Parish librarian Semenov G. V. Street lights Senchin R. Eltyshev Solzhenitsyn A. I. Cancer building 22

23 Ulitskaya L. Sonechka Fischer T. Bookworm Fry M. About the library France A. Rise of the Angels Hornby N. Long Fall Chapek K. Where do the books go Chernokov M. Bookmakers Shaginyan M.S. A day in the Leningrad Public Library Shalamov V. Vishera Sherin A.V. Tears of Things Schönbrunn S. Pills of Happiness Shishkin M. The Taking of Ishmael Schmitt E.-E. Sect of egoists Shukshin V.M. Psychopath Shukshin V.M. Until the third roosters Eco U. Name of the rose Ehrenburg I.G. Day two Detective, thriller, horror King S. Library Police: novel / Stephen King; lane from English A.V. Sanina. M.: AST, p. In Stephen King's novels, the characters often visit the library, and the main characters in his works are often librarians, former or current. These are “Insomnia”, “Bag of Bones”, “Springs of Eternal Hope”, “Kaj”, “ Dark tower III. Badlands”, etc. King’s most famous “library” book is “The Library Police”. What is the “library police”? From the preface it becomes clear that using this expression is characteristic of Americans. This is a kind of horror story for children, like our Baba Yaga, only the scope of use of this concept is limited (it is used only in the library field). The library police, faceless and fierce, could have broken in on 23

24 home if the books borrowed from the library are not returned on time. A poster hung in a children's library depicts the Library Police as follows: “A boy and a girl, about eight years old, huddled together in fear and backed away from a huge man in a coat and a gray hat. The giant was at least eleven feet tall; his shadow fell ominously on the children's faces raised in fear. The wide-brimmed hat, in the style of the 40s, cast a shadow, and his deep-set eyes sparkled menacingly. The prickly gaze seemed to pierce right through the poor children. In the outstretched hand sparkled a badge with a strange-looking star,” “The call at the bottom of the poster was: Don’t run into the library police! Good boys and the girls turn in their books on time!” Many of the heroes in the works of the “king of horror” are people who suffered psychological trauma or fears in childhood or adolescence. This book is no exception. It was based on all the fears that Stephen King experienced as a child in relation to the library: the fear of getting lost in the maze of shelves, the fear of being locked in the library at night, the fear of the strict librarian who always advocated silence, and, of course, this is the fear of the Library by the police. The action takes place in the library of a small Iowa town in 1990. The main character, Sam Peebles, owner and employee of a real estate and insurance company, was the victim of rape as a child by a man who called himself the Library Policeman. Over time, Sam forced himself to forget this horror, but the library became a forbidden zone for him. Sam is forced to go to the Junction City Public Library at the age of forty to prepare for a speaker's night. The eerie picture of the empty halls of the library awakened childhood fears in the man; the high walls, ceilings and shelves were overwhelming: “a gray twilight reigned inside,” “in the corners there were frighteningly dark shadows like cobwebs.” The terrible posters in the children's library, and in particular the poster depicting the Library Police, plunged Sam into deep horror. In Sam's eyes, the library looked like a "gloomy granite box" or a "giant crypt", and its facade looked like the "gloomy face of a stone idol." 24

25 At first glance, the librarian Ardelia Lortz seems very pretty: a small and plump “white, gray-haired woman of about fifty-five,” “her pretty face, not yet wrinkled, was framed by silvery hair, apparently permed.” The problems that concern Miss Lortz seem to be very ordinary and ordinary: the municipality cut the budget by eight hundred dollars, utility bills Ardelia Lorz showed herself to be a professional in searching for literature: the necessary books were found quite quickly, and the librarian determined the location of information exactly down to the pages. But this is a horror movie! And accordingly, under the guise of a librarian hides a terrible creature that feeds on children's fears. The backstory shows how skillfully the children's librarian Miss Lortz pulled dust into the eyes of adult library visitors, how she frightened the children with terrible fairy tales and posters in order to get the desired food of children's fear. Sam Peebles, saving his life and the lives of his friends, enters into a fight with a cunning monster-librarian, and the library halls become the battlefield. In this genre, the librarian, library, book and reading are found in the works listed below: Akunin B. Quest Aravind A. From Murder before the murder Beinhart L. The Librarian or how to steal the presidency Brown D. The Da Vinci Code Bradbury R. Something terrible is coming Grunge J. C. Purple Rivers Gruber M. Dontsov's Book of Air and Shadows D. Quasimodo in stiletto heels King R. Bookplate King S. Insomnia King S. Library Police King S. Bag of Bones King S. Eternal Hopes of Spring King S. Kadge King S. The Dark Tower III. Badlands King S. Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption Kostova E. Historian 25

26 Quinn E. (Under the pseudonym Burnaby Ross) The Last Case of Drury Lane Coulonge A. Six gray geese Kurzweil A. Hours of Evil Litvinovs A. and S. Classmates smerti Marinina A. Sixes die first Painkofer M. Brotherhood of the Runes Palahniuk Ch. Lullaby Polyakov Yu. Sky of the Fallen Poles Yu. Mushroom King Reese D. Book of Shadows Saphon K. R. Shadow of the Wind Stranton A. A Nightmare on Elm Street Sack D. Conspiracy of the Franciscans Harwood D. The Ghost of the Author Science Fiction, Fantasy Kozlov Yu.V. Night Hunt: A Fantasy Novel / Yu.V. Kozlov // Iron Angel: a fantastic story and novel / Yu.V. Kozlov. M.: Voenizdat, S. A fantastic novel by Yuri Kozlov describes the events of the not so distant future of 2201. All living things are on the verge of extinction. The conditions of “continuously improving democracy” gave rise to the fundamental law of life - freedom (in all its manifestations): political, economic, personal, sexual, etc. Radiation, deadly viruses, lack of normal food and water, and also, as a consequence of excessive freedom, widespread alcoholism and drug addiction and banditry all this led to short duration life and high mortality. Not only people died, entire species of animals, fish, birds died out. To survive in a world ruled by animal instincts, hunger, pain, procreation, man did anything. Only 26 understood and respected

27 strength and cruelty. At the same time, there was a struggle for power everywhere: in the gang, in the city, in the province, in the country, in the world. According to rumors, normal life remained only in Antarctica, where totalitarianism, collectivism and communism flourished. In a world where it was hardly possible to meet a person who had not experienced the effects of radiation, sober and without drugs in his blood, undoubtedly, a lot has changed, and far from better side. The work reveals the changes that have occurred in all social spheres of life and society: education, healthcare, culture, etc. The author takes the problem of non-reading quite seriously. It is not surprising that in the current situation no books were written or published. However, the books continued to live, because the legacy of past times survived. There are only a few people left who read, and one of these readers was the main character Anton, who deserted from the labor front, apparently considering the freedom given by democracy in the person of the government to be insufficient. Fleeing from death in a world full of dangers, Anton found time to read and enjoyed reading Don Quixote. The book struck the main character so much that he thought a lot about it and often compared the events of Don Quixote with the events of his life. “This funny circumstance (reading books in the current situation) testifies that elementary human virtues are possible even in a world of freedom, in a world, as it seems to me, absolutely free from all types of virtue.” “Until recently, it seemed to Anton that books, like rare stars, floated in an ocean of black heads. Individual heads light up from the books like light bulbs. Let it be limited space, but the darkness is diminishing. Anton was sad that in the freest and fairest of worlds there are few books and a lot of darkness.” As fate would have it, Anton joined a gang whose leader sought to seize power in one of the provinces. Having achieved his goal, the leader elects his people to the government, and appoints Anton as Minister of Culture. And Anton decides to visit the library under his jurisdiction. And what does he see? “The library was located on the very outskirts of the government quarter in a dilapidated, crumbling building, in the basement. The iron with which the door was covered was so rusty that the door seemed 27

28 dressed in a red coat with dirty stains. The path was overgrown with grass and burdocks.” The library itself was “a small room with two barred windows.” The uncomfortable atmosphere, somewhat reminiscent of a prison, was complemented by the absence of books. All the books and newspapers were in the book depository, and the door to it was locked with a sophisticated electronic lock. To enter the book depository, permission was required, which could only be obtained by sending an application to the center. Only the last three issues of any periodical printed material were considered mandatory for storage. As new ones arrived, the rest were recommended to be destroyed “by burning” in order to maintain a “stable environmental situation” in the country. In the library, the guard-librarian, the always drunk grandfather Phokeus, carried out his duty. “The door was opened either by a drunk, or just woken up, but most likely by a drunk and just woken up red-eyed grandfather with a rusty red, scraggly beard that matched the door. From lying on his side for a long time, his beard shifted to one side, which made the grandfather seem to be standing on a wind blower, although there was no wind blower.” To Anton’s question “Where are all the books and newspapers?” the cunning librarian, disguised as a simpleton, replies: “Three is three! I serve the dish! How they bring a new one straight into the oven! But they haven’t published books in our province for a hundred years. In 2114 they published the “Democrat Desk Calendar”, and how it was cut off.” The “hospitable” librarian, who also happens to be a moonshine seller, more than once tried to treat the newly-minted Minister of Culture to some brew. But Grandfather Fokey is not as simple as he wants to seem. If at the first meeting Anton sees in the librarian only a drunk with 50 years of experience, then on the second visit to the library the guard reveals all his cards. The library turns out to be the center of reality control in the province through a computer, and the librarian is a computer genius. Over the years of his service, Grandfather Fokey understood electronics and learned “what holds the world together and how it is governed.” By changing the program, the grandfather could change life in the province, or even throughout the world, but fear 28

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An essay on the topic why Natasha Rostova cheated on Prince Andrei so Prince Andrei saw the sky above Austerlitz (. Essay on the topic The image of Natasha Rostova in the novel War and Peace Tolstoy’s favorite heroine. Topics

Preface to the scientific and educational albums of Jean-Pierre Petit Jean-Pierre Petit is a famous French scientist, professor, physicist (theorist and experimenter), mathematician, who created original and profound works

Fedorova Irina Alekseevna, educational psychologist, State Budgetary Educational Institution “School 904” Preschool structural subdivision 11 Children and parents event: Game room “Let’s overcome fear” Introduction: Exercise “Affectionate

The work was completed by: Yana Vinogradova, 7th grade student My grandfather, my hero The roar of salvo guns... the fire sweeps away everything around... In the smoke, a child stretches out his hands... The war has closed a terrible circle.. I see it on

My electronic reading diary Dmitry Sarychev, 4th grade student MBOU Secondary School 8 Poronaysk My electronic reading diary: used when reading records what is read Purpose reader's diary:

“Love will unexpectedly appear when you least expect it” Recommendations for parents “If a teenager is in love” Teenage love is something special, different from the love of adults. Parents need to know a lot

Fifty Shades Darker free download pdf >>> Fifty Shades Darker free download pdf Fifty Shades Darker free download pdf It is written easily, as if the author had voiced it

November 1972 1 November 2, 1972 (Conversation with Sujata) How is Satprem? I think ok, dear Mother. And you, how are you doing? And I wanted to ask: how are things going with dear Mother? Mother is not “coming”! No more personality

Municipal budgetary preschool educational institution "Kindergarten of a combined type 2 "Sun" Through the pages of the military glory of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers Every year our country celebrates the holiday

An essay on the topic of real and fantastic in Gogol's story Nose If there were no Gogol's stories in our literature, then we would not know anything better. This topic sounds especially acute, for example, at the beginning

Lesson 21 1. What was the problem between Abram and Lot? Since both Abram and Lot had so many sheep and cattle, there was not enough grass for the animals to eat. 2.Why did Lot choose to live?

2. Bernard Hannah Miss Librarian The humble librarian Erin had all her hopes of finding a faithful and loving husband dashed. Now she dreams only of a child. And no men, no romances!

3. Belyaeva L. I. Seven years don’t count

4. Bradbury, Ray `And the army of evil spirits appeared...` (fiction, about a male librarian)

5. Bulgakov M.A. How much Brockhaus can the body tolerate?

6. Volodin A. Idealist

7. Galin A. M. Librarian

8. Gorbunov N.K. Report

9. Goryshin G. Thirty years

10. Grekova I. Summer in the city

11. Dubrovina T., Laskareva E. `Aerobatics` Librarian Masha no longer believed in the possibility of happiness - fate never spoiled her with gifts. And suddenly happiness itself literally fell on her head. The pilot from the crashed plane turned out to be the one and only loved one. My head was spinning with delight. But lies, the machinations of envious people and stupid accidents prevent the timid, long-awaited feeling, whose name is love, from growing stronger in her heart...

12. Elizarov M. `The Librarian` bookz.ru/authors/elizarov-mihail/bibliote_873.html Russian Booker Literary Prize for the best novel of 2008
13. Ilyin V.A. I love you life

14. Kaverin V.A. Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilievsky Island (many pages in the novel are devoted to libraries)

15. Kazakov Yu. House under the steep slope

16. Kassil L. A. The heart of the library: Essay.

17. Kuznetsov A. Fire

18. Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia
The action in the story takes place in our days. Her heroine Polina is a librarian by profession. Disappointed with reality, Polina leaves for Germany to join her fiancé. However, even there she does not find peace: the German man is too calculating, there are also prostitutes and drug addicts there...

19. Karavaeva A A. Measure of happiness

20. Karelin L. V. Microdistrict

21. Lidin V.G. The book is immortal A story about the head of a regional library who managed to preserve a considerable part of the library collection under occupation conditions

22. Litvinov Anna and Sergey Odnoklassniki smerti. Readers will once again meet the Litvinovs' favorite characters - journalist Dmitry Poluyanov and his fiancee Nadya Mitrofanova. They find themselves at the epicenter of mysterious events. Nadya is a sweet girl, but very correct and predictable. And how can a modest librarian surprise you? Therefore, when Nadya’s former classmate died, Dima had no doubt: it was an accident. It is not clear why the bride is nervous and begs him to investigate the girl’s death. At first glance, there are no mysteries: an ordinary domestic murder. But Nadya insists on an investigation. Intrigued, Poluyanov takes up this case and very soon finds out: it turns out that the quiet Nadezhda in the past led a life very far from the current exemplary one. And she made powerful enemies for herself - so serious that even now, ten years later, her life is in danger...

23. Likhanova A.A. Children's Library (The library is shown through the eyes of wartime children)

24. Matveev M.Yu. Book people in Russian literature of the twentieth century How libraries, librarians, and bibliophiles are represented in Russian fiction of the twentieth century www.library.ru/3/reflection/articles/matveev_01.php www.spbguki.ru/files/Avt_Matveev_1243239702.doc

25. Musatov A.I. Ostroh Bible

26. Nekrasov V.P. In my hometown

27. Rasputin V. G. Fire

28. Rekemchuk A. Thirty six and six

29. Russians, Anna. A woman in search of a way out of a dead end [Text]: story / A. Russkikh // Neva. - 2008. - No. 3. - P. 123-138 The tragic fate of a female librarian: her husband’s drunkenness and cruelty, problems with her son, the death of her son. magazines.russ.ru/neva/2008/3/ru5.html

30. Rybakova S. Parish librarian www.hram-ks.ru/RS_rassk_v1.shtml

31. Semenov T.V. Street lights

32. Senchin Roman Eltyshev (Friendship of Peoples. 2009. No. 3,4) Valentina Viktorovna, the mother of a family that is steadily heading towards complete destruction, is also a librarian, an elderly woman, tired and heavy. We will never see her with a book: such a familiar way Losing yourself in hopeless everyday life does not occur to either the author or the heroine. We cannot discern in her a single glimmer of bookish (in the sense of high) principles and values. From time to time she remembers who wrote such and such a book that she once gave out. Without remembering, he quickly calms down

33. Solzhenitsyn, A.I. `Cancer Ward` One of the characters is a certain Alexey Filippovich Shulubin, a military commander in his youth, later a red professor and teacher of philosophy. He escaped Stalin's camps, but in freedom he went through all the stages of intimidation and humiliation. In the novel, Shulubin is a librarian, a completely broken, unhappy person.

34. Strekhnin Yu. F. There are women in Russian villages

35. Tikhonov N.S. Fearless book lovers Essay about a lieutenant who collected books under German fire in the ruins of Peterhof

36. Ulitskaya L. `Sonechka` Lyudmila Ulitskaya brought out the bright, surprisingly selfless character of the librarian Sonechka. The heroine of `Sonechka`, as if in a long-term faint, reads books voraciously, but the reality of life - love, family, motherhood - knocks her out of reading Old age sets in: she dies husband, daughter leaves, and her soul returns to great literature, which gives food for the soul, reconciliation, pleasure

37. Umberto Eco “The Name of the Rose” The learned monk William of Baskerville with his disciple Adson arrives at the Franciscan monastery to investigate a series of mysterious murders. His investigation leads him into the depths of the abbey's vast library, and the murders, as he discovers, were committed because of a rare copy of the second part of Aristotle's Poetics, dedicated to comedy and laughter.

38. Esther Friesner Death and the Librarian How many times have we already come across this plot: Death comes for his next victim and leaves, slurping unsaltedly, but, as can be seen from this story, the plot is far from exhausted. Esther Friesner managed to create her own unique story of this now classic meeting, while giving Death a number of unusual features.

39. Chernokov M. Books. The bizarre world of bibliophiles of pre-revolutionary Russia appears on the pages of this novel

40. Shaginyan M. S. A day in the Leningrad Public Library

41. Shargorodskaya Inna Hunt for Ovechkin A fairy-tale story that happened to the modest librarian Mikhail Anatolyevich Ovechkin on the border of parallel worlds and the very real St. Petersburg.

42. Shukshin V. M. Psychopath

43. Ehrenburg I. G. Day two, Until the third roosters, Reader’s confidant

44. Yakovlev Yu. Ya. Knights of the book

The profession of a librarian is one of the most noble professions, requiring love for work, dedication, and strength of soul. This profession is considered socially significant, but not prestigious, almost invisible.

Images of libraries and librarians in Russian fiction of the twentieth century. very interesting and controversial. The authors of the books note features characteristic of a particular historical period, show the position of libraries in society, and also create purely literary images and associations, stable stereotypes of librarians.

The nature of the image of a book, library and librarian in fiction appears to be a reflection of society’s attitude towards them. And works of literature make it possible to comprehend the place of the library in the life of society, to understand the image of the librarian in society, because the attitude towards reading, books, the library and its employees depends not so much on the status of the institution, the quantitative indicators of its activities, its social function, but on the ideas prevailing in society and stereotypes.

We present to your attention a selected list of works by domestic and foreign writers on this topic.

Bagmut, I. Precious edition: story

A story that describes a battle in the ruins of one of the regional libraries. In the midst of the battle, one of the fighters unexpectedly remembers the ordinary library silence as something unattainably distant: “in his imagination a luxurious library lobby and that special, cozy silence of the reading room, when only the quiet rustle of turning pages can be heard,” emerged (10). The library, which lost about 2 million volumes, was opened the very next day after the liberation of the city. One of the surviving books, taken by the main character to his unit on parole, was returned to the library by his comrade, since he “died while performing a combat mission.”

Birger, A. Spell of words: story

A writer with knowledge of librarianship tells about the work of a librarian. He talks warmly, touchingly, and sympathetically about library work.

Library in a provincial town. It seems that this is the quietest and most harmless place, where time flows slowly and nothing can disturb the established order once and for all. A famous metropolitan writer, arriving at a meeting with readers, unexpectedly finds himself in a whirlpool of mystical and mysterious events related to the local library.

Borisov, L. Blockade: story

The story touches on the tragic theme of the siege of Leningrad and book collections in the besieged city. The author notes that a real bibliophile, even if he had a kilogram of cereal, would be ashamed to buy an entire philosophical library for this “money,” since this is a “cynical case.”

Volodin, A. M. Idealist: play

A. Volodin’s play “The Idealist” was written in 1962. At the center of the play is the image of an idealistic librarian who dreams of introducing all readers to the “reasonable, good, eternal” and, first of all, to reading “serious” literature. This work is a monodrama, a confession of the heroine about her life. She doesn’t have a name, the author calls her somewhat aloofly - She has a profession - a librarian. Four meetings that left a mark on the heroine’s life - four partings. In the 80s, a television film was made based on “The Idealist” with the participation of A. Freindlikh and N. Mikhalkov

Vorobyov, E. Rustle of pages: story

The story is about besieged Leningrad; Leningrader E. Vorobyov is spiritually close to this topic. A special atmosphere is felt here, precise details are remembered: six hundred frozen inkwells in the Public Library.

Galin, A. Librarian: play

By putting the hero's profession in the title, the playwright emphasized its “iconicity.” The play presents a type of library worker - a person who does not agree with the political system and the existing orders in society, who views the library as a kind of refuge.

The play takes place in the library of a psychoneurological dispensary, lost somewhere in the Russian outback. Apparently no one uses the library. However, there are as many as three employees, one way or another, driven into this trap. The hero is exiled to the library on orders from the KGB for publishing some innocent samizdat magazine.

Soon he should be “rehabilitated” - and he will be able to leave the library. But at the last moment the “librarian” stands up for the unjustly persecuted young man and, as one can understand, new misfortunes await him. It is very significant that it was in the library that the author found a “righteous man” capable of self-sacrifice: “The revolt of weak people is the strongest rebellion!”

Georgievskaya, S. Silver Word: story

“The Silver Word” is a story about a young girl librarian who left Moscow for distant Tuva, about her youthfully passionate and deeply responsible attitude to her work.

Grekova, I. Summer in the city: story

“When the linden trees bloom, the whole city is immersed in the smell. It smells on trams, in shops, on stairs. The large library hall also smelled of linden trees. The windows were open, and when the breeze blew, everyone felt the presence of linden trees..."

Elizarov, M. Librarian: novel

“The Librarian” is, in fact, the first great post-Soviet novel, the reaction of the generation of 30-year-olds to the world in which they found themselves. Behind the fantastic plot lies a parable, a southern Russian tale of lost time, false nostalgia and a barbaric present. The main character, an eternal loser-student, an “extra” person who does not fit into capitalism, finds himself drawn into the thick of a bloody war waged among the so-called “libraries” over the heritage Soviet writer YES. Gromova.

An entire reality unfolds around the books, sometimes reminiscent of an action-packed thriller, sometimes an action movie, but most importantly, in the blurred contours of this skillfully invented reality, as in a mirror, many readers whose childhood began before perestroika recognize themselves and their history. For others, this world, half assembled from real facts of a recent but irretrievably past time, half invented, will seem no less fantastic than the dying profession of a librarian.

“This is a book about the death of Soviet readers, who forever burn in the flames of socialist realism literature,” says the chairman of the Russian Booker jury, critic Evgeny Sidorov.

Zalygin, S. South American variant: novel

The novel "South American Version", a purely "urban" story about the spiritual toil of a modern intelligent woman.

Kaverin, V. Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilyevsky Island: novel

There are many pages in the novel dedicated to libraries.

Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia: story

Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia The action in the story takes place in our days. Her heroine Polina, a librarian by profession, “speaks English and French... she has collected a lot of material (for her dissertation - B.S.), she just needs to rummage a little in the German archives....".

“By the way, just last night Polina had a prophetic dream... Her house is on fire, the flames are already rising from below, from the basement, the fire is raging in the kitchen, in the corridor, and she cannot escape. Well, I recognize you, life, I accept you, and I greet you with the ringing of the shield. They won’t take you back to the library, although you can go to another, simpler one, and no longer communicate with academics...” She is an intelligent, decisive modern woman (the type of the new Russian librarian) and, what is very important, very well read - “all her life she did nothing but read books.” At the same time, she is horrified by the surrounding lack of spirituality, drug addiction, prostitution: “... under the communists... there was order... you could watch TV. And now we are showing sex films... the question is, where did this nasty thing come from?” Disappointed with reality, Polina leaves for Germany to join her fiancé. However, even there she does not find peace: the German man is too calculating, there are also prostitutes and drug addicts there... The end of the story is tragic. Polina dies in a car accident.

This story is symbolic. In it, one of the first in Russian modern literature, the image of a librarian is endowed with high intellectual potential, capable of communicating on equal terms with the color of the nation (in this case, academicians).

(Star. - 1998. - No. 9. - pp. 33-104)

Krapivin, V. Orange speckled portrait: story

Julia, the heroine of the story, is an intern in the library of the very small town of Verkhotalye.

Likhanov, A. Children's library: story

The stories “The Store of Beloved Aids”, “Kikimora” and “Children’s Library” by A.A. Likhanov form part of the novel in the stories “Russian Boys”. All of them are about how children who became schoolchildren during the hard times of war went through the war, and what their lives were filled with.

Lobanova, L. From the life of a reader: novel

Marina was tired of the loneliness and hopelessness of a relationship with a married man leading nowhere. She lives among books and dreams of somehow changing her dull existence. And one day dreams come true...

Now Marina has everything and an interesting job in a new magazine, and even an affair with a famous writer. But... how different the reality of the existence of literary bohemia is from everything that was pictured in her imagination! And how difficult it is to find happiness in the world of those who have chosen the Word as their destiny!..

Logan, B. Librarian

Regina Finch dreamed of working in a library - it seemed to her that nothing could be more interesting, and she was incredibly happy that her dream had come true. But on her first day of work, she witnessed an outrageous scene: two young people passionately made love in one of the rooms of the New York Public Library. Regina's indignation was great, but she couldn't help but notice how handsome and sexy the young man was. She would be surprised to know what awaits her: very soon the handsome macho man who desecrated the holy of holies will become her boyfriend...

Myron Wiki, Dewey. The cat from the library who shocked everyone

The hero of this book is a real-life ginger cat named Dewey, who lived in public library small town Spencer, Iowa, USA.

The book is the memoirs of his owner Vicki Myron. She worked at the Spencer Library for 25 years, 20 of them as director of the library, and all this time she had with her the cat Dewey - the main inhabitant of the library building, an honorary employee, a mascot and everyone's favorite.

So what kind of experiences can an animal endure? How many lives does a cat have? How did it happen that an unfortunate foundling kitten made a small library a meeting place for surrounding residents and a center of attraction for tourists, and a provincial American town became famous all over the world? About this and much more in the amazing book of Vicky Myron, which managed to touch the soul of millions of readers in all corners of the planet.

Myron Wiki, The Nine Lives of Dewey. The heirs of the library cat who shocked the whole world

The touching story of the red cat from the Spencer Township library, described in Vicki Myron's book Dewey, has generated millions of rave reviews. Readers were so into the atmosphere warmth, which Dewey gave to people, which inspired Vicki Myron to write a sequel.

The new book contains nine stories about cats that united people, gave them hope and helped them cope with life's difficulties, taught them to rejoice, love and compassion.

Rybakova, S. Parish librarian: story

In the story “The Parish Librarian” by S. Rybakova, Vika, Victoria works in the parish library. “For her, work was a gift from God that she valued. But the readers, in turn, gave Vika a lot. They were all like-minded people in the busy world.

(Our contemporary. - 2002. - No. 10. - P. 94-101)

Senchin R. Eltyshevs: novel

Valentina Viktorovna, the mother of a family that is steadily heading towards complete destruction, is also a librarian, an older woman, tired and heavy. We will never see her with a book: such a familiar way to lose yourself in hopeless everyday life does not occur to either the author or the heroine. We will not discern in her a single glimmer of bookish (in the sense of high) principles and values. From time to time she remembers who wrote such and such a book that she once gave out. Not remembering, he quickly calms down...

(Friendship of Peoples. - 2009. - No. 3,4)

Strekhnin, Yu. There are women in Russian villages: true story

Ulitskaya, L. Sonechka: story

Lyudmila Ulitskaya brought out the bright, surprisingly selfless character of the librarian Sonechka.

“She graduated from library technical school, began working in the basement storage room of the old library and was one of the rare lucky people who, with a slight pain of interrupted pleasure, left her dusty and stuffy basement at the end of the working day, not having had time to get enough of either a series of index cards or whitish sheets of demands for the day who came to her from above, from the reading room, nor with the living weight of volumes falling into her thin hands.”

The heroine of “Sonechka”, as if in a long-term faint, reads books voraciously, but the reality of life - love, family, motherhood - knocks her out of reading... Old age sets in: her husband dies, her daughter leaves - and her soul returns to the great literature that gives food for the soul, reconciliation, pleasure...).

The story "Sonechka" received awards: Medici (1996, France) and them. Giuseppe Aserbi (1998, Italy).

Chernokov, M. Knizhniki: a novel

The bizarre world of bibliophiles of pre-revolutionary Russia appears on the pages of M. Chernokov’s novel “Scribes”. It describes in detail and colorfully both the “gloomy St. Petersburg antique shops” and the scribes themselves, wholly indulged in their all-consuming passion. At the same time, for help in finding books, they are ready to endure any nickname - “alchemists, empty saints, dusty monster,” etc.

In general, M. Chernokov’s “Scribes” is one of the very rare works in Russian literature entirely devoted to bibliophile themes, and nothing like this was published in subsequent decades.