Tag #144854 - Interview #83317 (Margarita Farka )

Our generation is referred to as ‘the generation of the 1960s.’ We literally snatched the novel by Ilya Erenburg [20], ‘Thaw,’ which was published after Stalin’s death. The title of this novel was symbolic indeed, and it anticipated the ‘thaw’ of the political climate in the USSR at the end of the 1950s. Later we were very much carried away by the story by Alexander Solzhenitsyn [21], ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.’ We were very glad to see that poetry by Osip Mandelshtam [22], Nikolai Gumilev [23], Marina Tsvetaeva [24] and prose by Isaac Babel [25] and others came back from oblivion. [The interviewee enumerates ‘worshipped’ Russian men of letters of the 20th century, whose works developed the cultural wealth of the Soviet intelligentsia of the 1960s/1970s].