Цитадель

"Ty pisheshʹ, ty obrashchaeshʹsi͡a k li͡udi͡am, ty slovno by snari͡azhaeshʹ korablʹ, - napisal Sent-Ėkzi͡uperi v "T͡Sitadeli". - Nemnogie iz korableĭ dostignut gavani. Bolʹshinstvo zateri͡aetsi͡a v more. Ne tak uzh mnogo znachimykh slov prodolzhai͡ut plytʹ po reke istorii"."T͡Sitadelʹ" - velichaĭshee tvorenie Antuana de Sent-Ėkzi͡uperi, vershina ego khudozhestvennoĭ filosofii. Ėta moshchnai͡a, nesokrushimai͡a literaturnai͡a krepostʹ vozvodilasʹ pisatelem v techenie dolgikh let s maksimalʹnoĭ otdacheĭ i beskonechnoĭ li͡ubovʹi͡u.Poskolʹku "T͡Sitadelʹ" ne byla zavershena (Sent-Ėkzi͡uperi vsegda povtori͡al, chto ne zakonchit ee nikogda), a sama kniga okazalasʹ slishkom obʺemnoĭ i slozhnoĭ dli͡a prochtenii͡a, frant͡suzskiĭ literator Mishelʹ Kenelʹ po prosʹbe semʹi naslednikov sdelal popytku ee otredaktirovatʹ, provedi͡a nekotorye sokrashchenii͡a i izʺi͡av povtory, tem samym i͡arche vydeliv vse khudozhestvennye dostoinstva. Novyĭ variant poluchilsi͡a bolee dostupnym i populi͡arnym, pomog priblizitʹ chitateleĭ k ėtomu nepodrazhaemomu shedevru velikogo pisateli͡a-zodchego, stroi͡ashchego v serdt͡se kazhdogo sobstvennui͡u t͡sitadelʹ.Na russkom i͡azyke publikuetsi͡a v blesti͡ashchem perevode Marianny Kozhevnikovoĭ."T͡Sitadelʹ" - proizvedenie plotʹ ot ploti avtora, ego sokrovennoe. Ėto ta melodii͡a, tot sumrachnyĭ i torzhestvennyĭ gimn, chto voznik ne blagodari͡a kakoĭ-libo vstreche, a postoi͡anno zvuchal v ego dushe, byl im samim, kak dykhanie, bienie serdt͡sa, pulʹsat͡sii͡a krovi."T͡Sitadelʹ", khotʹ i stroitsi͡a kak rasskaz, raspadaetsi͡a na mnozhestvo ne svi͡azannykh odna s drugoĭ istoriĭ, kotorye vozbuzhdai͡ut ne li͡ubopytstvo, ne interes, a voskhishchai͡ut krasotoĭ i znachimostʹi͡u.

"You write, you address people, it's like you're fitting out a ship," Saint—Exupery wrote in The Citadel. "Few of the ships will reach the harbor. Most will get lost in the sea. Not many meaningful words continue to float down the river of history."The Citadel is the greatest creation of Antoine de Saint—Exupery, the pinnacle of his artistic philosophy. This powerful, indestructible literary fortress was built by the writer for many years with maximum dedication and endless love.Since The Citadel was not completed (Saint-Exupery always repeated that he would never finish it), and the book itself turned out to be too voluminous and difficult to read, the French writer Michel Quesnel, at the request of the family of heirs, made an attempt to edit it, making some cuts and removing repetitions, thereby highlighting all the artistic merits more clearly. The new version turned out to be more accessible and popular, helped bring readers closer to this inimitable masterpiece of the great writer-architect, who builds his own citadel in the heart of everyone.In Russian, it is published in a brilliant translation by Marianna Kozhevnikova."Citadel" is a work of the flesh of the author's flesh, his innermost. This is the melody, that gloomy and solemn hymn that arose not because of any meeting, but constantly sounded in his soul, was himself, like breathing, heartbeat, pulsation of blood."Citadel", although it is built as a story, breaks up into many unrelated stories that excite not curiosity, not interest, but delight in beauty and significance.