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"If evil happens for some time that is destructive to humanity, it will certainly affect people's subsequent lives. Generations will come, deprived of strength and inspiration, apathetically and indifferently looking at everything around them. Their souls will be burned out, they will be tired long before they are born. So today the twentieth century is shadowing the twenty-first.
The unlived-in lives of the shot, tortured and murdered could not disappear. Their time is most likely silently flowing by our side. The salvation of future generations is to hear and see these lives, to give every ruined soul, to allow a person who died in vain to be reborn in our time.
Space is a moral category. It was not by chance that a place for monasteries and churches was chosen for so long, the masters listened and felt the whispers of this place, trying to find out what was happening there long before their time.
It seems to me that there is an invisible map where the unlived time and the uncreated space of those who were so easily thrown out of life just because they were born in the dark intersect. I stare and stare at this map, which will become visible to everyone anyway, and I feel endless guilt and unspeakable pity.
Imperceptibly, strange creatures with a dead heart and cold eyes appear nearby. They broadcast something from the pages of newspapers, from TV and radio, carry out some tasks, lead something.
The time that has risen on the bones goes on and on..."
(from Natalia Gromova's book "The Key". 2013)
If the death of a loved one is like a shaking of the entire inner nature, then what about the mass murders of people who were connected by thousands of threads to others, how do they affect all of us? After all, this infernal machine continues to explode invisibly in the souls.
The truth is pouring out of the pages of this book, not combed, official information from history textbooks, but live voices. What was it like to live in an era of fear, when friends and acquaintances were arrested, when "the right people" were recruited. How people broke down, unable to withstand the strain, and how they tried to preserve human dignity. As many people had "two faces" - Soviet and private.
Natalia Gromova lifts the veil over the past, recreates a piece of the "last" Moscow, makes us think about our past and our future. She urges us not to close our eyes, pretending that nothing happened, but to help people tell their stories, tell the truth.
An amazing novel. Against the background of the current state of literature, this book by Natalia Gromova should be classified as elite, intellectual prose. It's a modern classic.
Наталья Громова - советский и российский прозаик, исследователь литературного быта 1920–30-х годов, литературный критик.
Natalia Gromova is a Soviet and Russian novelist, researcher of literary life in the 1920s and 30s, and literary critic.
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