Евгений Шварц. Судьба Cказочника в эпоху Дракона

Predzakaz. Vykhod knigi v i͡anvare 2026 I͡A pishu ob Evgenii Shvart͡se, potomu chto on govoril o nas. O mire, gde strashen ne Drakon, a privychka zhitʹ ri͡adom s nim; o strakhe, kotoryĭ pronikaet v dushu i stanovitsi͡a normoĭ; i o vnutrenneĭ svobode, kotorui͡u mozhno sokhranitʹ dazhe vnutri nesvobody.  Natalʹi͡a Gromova Evgeniĭ Shvart͡s pisal skazki, kotorye byli gorazdo realistichnee sovetskikh romanov. V "Teni" i osobenno v "Drakone" on prorocheski raskryl prirodu rabstva, togo, chto chutʹ pozzhe budet nazvano "banalʹnostʹi͡u zla", - povsednevnui͡u privychku zhitʹ ri͡adom s tiranom. V ėpokhu razryvov i poterʹ on vozvrashchal li͡udi͡am poteri͡annostʹ, druzhbu, li͡ubovʹ, nadezhdu i govoril o nikh tak, chto stanovilosʹ legche dyshatʹ. V svoikh pʹesakh Shvart͡s smei͡alsi͡a nad nasmertʹ perepugannymi sovremennikami i v to zhe vremi͡a zhalel ikh, oplakivai͡a ikh dushi. Kem on byl na samom dele? Nasmeshnikom ili mudret͡som pod maskoĭ shuta, kotoryĭ, perevorachivai͡a povsednevnye slova i smysly, videl mir i͡asnee vsekh. Shvart͡s prinadlezhit k tem nemnogim khudozhnikam, kto sumel pronesti cherez mrak svoego vremeni vnutrenniĭ svet - i podaritʹ li͡udi͡am nadezhdu na ist͡selenie. ____________ Natalʹi͡a Gromova - prozaik, istorik literatury. Do marta 2022 goda vedushchiĭ nauchnyĭ sotrudnik Gosudarstvennogo literaturnogo muzei͡a v Moskve. Kurator mnogochislennykh vystavok, v tom chisle o Evgenii Shvart͡se "Obyknovennyĭ volshebnik". Vedushchai͡a lekt͡siĭ na "Arzamase" o Shvart͡se, T͡Svetaevoĭ i drugikh. Avtor ri͡ada nauchnykh istoricheskikh issledovaniĭ i dokumentalʹnykh knig o literaturnom byte, ėvakuat͡sii pisateleĭ, poslevoennoĭ literaturnoĭ zhizni, o T͡Svetaevoĭ, Berggolʹt͡s, Pasternake i drugikh. Finalist premii "Russkiĭ Buker" za 2014 god i premii "Venet͡s" Soi͡uza pisateleĭ Moskvy. Finalist premii "Bolʹshai͡a kniga" za 2020 god.

Pre-order. The book will be published in January 2026. I am writing about Evgeny Schwartz because he talked about us. About a world where it's not the Dragon that's scary, but the habit of living next to it; about the fear that penetrates the soul and becomes the norm; and about the inner freedom that can be preserved even inside the unfreedom.  Natalia Gromova Evgeny Schwartz wrote fairy tales that were much more realistic than Soviet novels. In "The Shadow" and especially in "The Dragon," he prophetically revealed the nature of slavery, what would later be called the "banality of evil," the daily habit of living next to a tyrant. In an era of breakups and losses, he restored people's loss, friendship, love, and hope, and talked about them in a way that made it easier to breathe. In his plays, Schwartz laughed at his terrified contemporaries and at the same time felt sorry for them, mourning their souls. Who was he really? A scoffer or a sage disguised as a buffoon, who, turning over everyday words and meanings, saw the world more clearly than anyone else. Schwartz is one of the few artists who managed to bring inner light through the darkness of their time and give people hope for healing. ___________ Natalia Gromova is a novelist and literary historian. Until March 2022, he is a leading researcher at the State Literary Museum in Moscow. He has curated numerous exhibitions, including Eugene Schwartz's "An Ordinary Wizard." Leading lectures on "Arzamas" about Schwartz, Tsvetaeva and others. He is the author of a number of scientific historical studies and nonfiction books about literary life, the evacuation of writers, post-war literary life, about Tsvetaeva, Bergholz, Pasternak and others. Finalist of the Russian Booker Prize for 2014 and the Crown Prize of the Moscow Writers' Union. Finalist of the Big Book Award for 2020.