Улей

V odnoĭ bezymi͡annoĭ strane sluchilsi͡a ėkonomicheskiĭ krizis, vzletela bezrabotit͡sa, i na vershinu vzoshel diktator, kotoryĭ reshil problemu nezateĭlivo: zapretil zhenshchinam rabotatʹ, chtoby oni ne otnimali rabotu u muzhchin. Mesto zhenshchiny doma, eĭ polozheno rozhatʹ deteĭ i obikhazhivatʹ muzha, ne tak li?Tri desi͡atiletii͡a polovina naselenii͡a strany zhivet, ne podnimai͡a golovy. Bolʹshinstvu zhenshchin naznacheno bytʹ bezglasnym prilozheniem k muzhchinam i reguli͡arno proizvoditʹ deteĭ, a nekotorykh vse-taki obi͡azali truditʹsi͡a, odnako poruchili im tolʹko ti͡azhelui͡u i gri͡aznui͡u rabotu, na kotorui͡u muzhchiny ne soglasi͡atsi͡a, i obʺi͡avili li͡udʹmi dazhe ne vtorogo, a tretʹego sorta. Vse ėti gody zhenshchin vospityvai͡ut sootvetstvenno - s detstva oni slyshat, chto bolʹshe ni na chto ne godny, - no nekotorye na promyvku mozgov ne poddai͡utsi͡a. I teperʹ, tridt͡satʹ let spusti͡a, neskolʹko bespravnykh rabotnit͡s pod pokrovom temnoty v podvale zabroshennogo doma gotovi͡atsi͡a k vosstanii͡u, kotoroe odna iz nikh planirovala godami, a mezhdu tem ikh po vsemu gorodu ishchet taĭnai͡a polit͡sii͡a. . . Margaret O"Donnell (1932-2019) - irlandskai͡a obshchestvennai͡a aktivistka, borovshai͡asi͡a za prava zhenshchin, dei͡atelʹnai͡a uchastnit͡sa dvizhenii͡a za legalizat͡sii͡u kontrat͡sept͡sii v Irlandii. Antiutopii͡a "Uleĭ", na pi͡atʹ let operedivshai͡a i predvoskhitivshai͡a "Rasskaz Sluzhanki" Margaret Ėtvud, - edinstvennyĭ roman O"Donnell, klassika feministskoĭ literatury, na neskolʹko desi͡atiletiĭ nezasluzhenno zabytyĭ, - vozvrashchaetsi͡a k nam tolʹko seĭchas i zvuchit, uvy, po-prezhnemu ochenʹ zlobodnevno. Ėto roman o tom, chto meni͡atʹsi͡a muchitelʹno, no vozmozhno i neizbezhno, a i͡arostnai͡a mechta odnoĭ-edinstvennoĭ zhenshchiny o spravedlivosti sposobna probuditʹ k zhizni sotni tysi͡ach drugikh i podtolknutʹ mir k peremenam. Vpervye na russkom!

In one unnamed country, there was an economic crisis, unemployment soared, and a dictator ascended to the top, who solved the problem in a simple way: he forbade women to work so that they would not take jobs away from men. A woman's place is at home, she's supposed to give birth to children and take care of her husband, right?For three decades, half of the country's population has been living without raising their heads. Most women were assigned to be a silent annex to men and regularly produce children, and some were still required to work, but they were assigned only hard and dirty work that men would not agree to, and declared people not even of the second, but of the third class. All these years, women have been brought up accordingly — since childhood they have been told that they are no longer good for anything — but some people do not give in to brainwashing. And now, thirty years later, several disenfranchised female workers, under cover of darkness in the basement of an abandoned house, are preparing for an uprising that one of them has been planning for years, and meanwhile the secret police are looking for them all over the city. . . Margaret O'Donnell (1932-2019) was an Irish social activist who fought for women's rights and was an active participant in the movement for the legalization of contraception in Ireland. The dystopia "The Beehive," which was five years ahead of and anticipated by Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," is O'Donnell's only novel, a classic of feminist literature that was undeservedly forgotten for several decades. It is returning to us only now and, alas, still sounds very topical. This is a novel about how painful it is to change, but it is possible and inevitable, and the fierce dream of a single woman about justice is capable of awakening hundreds of thousands of others to life and pushing the world to change. For the first time in Russian!