Илья Габай: Письма из заключения

Ilʹi͡a Gabaĭ (1935-1973) - aktivnyĭ uchastnik pravozashchitnogo dvizhenii͡a 1960-1970-kh godov, pedagog, poėt. V i͡anvare 1970 goda on byl osuzhden na tri goda zakli͡uchenii͡a i otpravlen v Kemerovskiĭ lagerʹ obshchego rezhima. V knige predstavleny zamechatelʹnye pisʹma I. Gabai͡a zhene, synu, souchenikam i druzʹi͡am po Pedagogicheskomu institutu (MGPI im. Lenina), znakomym. V lagere rodilasʹ i ego posledni͡ai͡a poėma "Vybrannye mesta", gde avtor v forme voobrazhaemoĭ perepiski s druzʹi͡ami zanovo osmyslival osnovnye motivy svoeĭ zhizni i tvorchestva. Chitatelʹ ne smozhet ne ot͡senitʹ nravstvennyĭ, intellektualʹnyĭ urovenʹ avtora, glubinu ego suzhdeniĭ o zhizni, o literature, ego blistatelʹnyĭ i͡umor. V knigu vkli͡ucheno takzhe poslednee slovo I. Gabai͡a na sude, kotoroe ne tolʹko ne ustarelo, no i v nashi dni chitaetsi͡a kak zlobodnevnai͡a publit͡sistika.

Ilya Gabay (1935-1973) is an active participant in the human rights movement 1960-1970-ies, teacher, poet. In January 1970 he was sentenced to three years imprisonment and sent to a camp in Kemerovo. The book presents a fascinating letter I. Gabay wife, son, fellow students and friends at the Pedagogical Institute (MGPI im. Lenin), familiar. Camp was born and his last poem "Chosen places", where the author in the form of an imaginary correspondence with friends re-comprehend the main motives of his life and creativity. The reader can not fail to appreciate the moral, intellectual level of the author, the depth of his judgments about life, about literature, his brilliant humor. The book also contains the last word I. Gabay on the court, which was not only not obsolete, but in these days reads like actual journalism.