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Read Elderberry - laugh with him
Views:I first read Buzina’s book while studying at the Faculty of Philology. Teachers of Ukrainian literature discussed it in detail and loudly... They quoted and cursed. Well, how can you not be interested?
The little book “The Ghoul Taras Shevchenko” was read instantly, and I learned from it that unfortunate Taras was tortured with dinners at the head of the exile, and he pestered the wife of this boss... But the main thing is that he is this mustachioed half-idol of Ukrainian poetesses and literary scholars - I was deeply unhappy all my life, but not at all because of the “damned tsarist power”... I saw Shevchenko as a person, and not a monster in a sheepskin coat with a terribly languid and rotten look, hanging everywhere in offices. Not a single teacher of Ukrainian literature was able to show him to me in five years of university exactly as a person - the way Buzina did.
Then there was “The Secret History of Ukraine-Rus”, a funny book “The Union of the Plow and the Trident”, a lyrical “Revival of Little Russia”, and in this book I found in a systematized form what I myself already vaguely understood while studying Ukrainian literature and the Ukrainian literary language: professional Ukrainians do not like... the Ukrainian people. They don't like him and don't know him. But Buzina knew and loved him, and wrote about it in every book.
Professional Ukrainians are the most disgusting thing that can exist on this earth. As another great Kiev resident and writer Konstantin Paustovsky wrote, describing the events of the 18th year of the Mother of Russian Cities: “Each people has its own characteristics, its own worthy features. But people, choking with saliva from tenderness for their people and lacking a sense of proportion, always bring these national traits to ridiculous proportions, to treacle, to disgust. Therefore, there are no worse enemies of one’s people than leavened patriots.” It was against this leavened, disgusting movement that kills the entire Ukrainian popular feeling that Buzina fought.
The famous Canadian-Ukrainian scientist Grigory Grabovich called such people “Shevchenko worshipers.” This is a new type of idolatry that has nothing in common either with the Ukrainian people or with the poet and artist Taras Shevchenko. And like all idolaters, Shevchenko worshipers hate it when their gods are destroyed. Buzina, like a true Christian of the first centuries, fearless and cheerful, came to the temple and overthrew the gilded idol, provoking burning hatred among his stupid fans. Made them think and question the convenient and evil myth - and this is terribly infuriating. Elderberry laughed at the idols... And they collapsed, just as Perun and Svarog, which fell into the milky waters of the Dnieper, collapsed from the blows of Vladimir the Holy. That Vladimir, who, after the overthrow of the idols, began our entire Kiev-Russian history.
Yes, Elderberry laughed at faith. But over what faith? All idolatry is a vile depersonalization, dehumanization of a person. Once upon a time, another great writer, Max Frisch, who survived fascism, wrote: “We saw people whose homeland was torn out of their souls - they bleed for a long time. But even we, who have our own banner and our own place on earth, to which only our conscience binds us, must still find our last Homeland, and who knows whether it exists on this earth. We will not sacrifice the infinite, whether we call it God or otherwise, and we will not create for ourselves an idol that will strangle the man in us, from the land that he lent to us; we will love our Motherland and defend it, but never pray for it.”
These words are the quintessence of the entire work of a real Kiev resident, historian, journalist and writer Oles Buzina. He chose the eternal, instead of the carnal and limited. Carnal people did not forgive him for this...
Buzina laughed at modern idolatry. Made me see the world in diversity, beauty and contradictions, and not in frenzied and fanatical strokes of white and black paint. But he did not laugh at the civil war, he never called for going to fight on any side. In this war, unleashed by Shevchenko worshipers, two of his friends were killed on both sides. His latest book is the word of a writer, the word of a citizen calling not for war, but for peace in Ukraine, and with just this one word, for which he was killed, Buzina is a greater Ukrainian than all professional Ukrainians, because you recognize them by their deeds.
On deeds and on responsibility for your words.
Buzina did not want to leave Kiev, despite the danger to his life, for only one reason - his homeland would have been torn from his heart, and he would have bled to death, as Max Frisch wrote. Then the small creatures, cowardly, three against one, decided to tear the soul out of his body... But the books remained, the people’s memory remained... And what will remain after you, Smerdyakovs? Fingers trembling in a frenzy and cowardice... Immense cowardice in anticipation of its stupid and senseless end... A petty, mousy end...
Elderberry is alive in people's memory, and therefore - Happy Birthday to you, Oles, a true Ukrainian writer! Read Elderberry - laugh with him. His books are very instructive and very joyful.
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