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Сообщение от LCR

Creative Kiefer rejects Adorno's famous formula: "to write poetry after Auschwitz - barbarism.

"How can I compose music after Auschwitz?" - Asks Adorno, and
person familiar with Russian history may repeat the same question, replacing
It called the camp - repeat it, perhaps with even more right, because
number of people perished in Stalin's camps, far exceeds the number of
perished in German. "And how after Auschwitz you can eat lunch?" - Noticed this
such as the American poet Mark Strand. The generation to which I belong, in
Anyway was able to compose the music.
This generation - the generation born just when the crematoria of Auschwitz
running at full capacity, when Stalin was in the zenith godlike,
absolute, nature itself seemed to be the authorized authorities, was in the world,
seems to continue that theoretically should have been interrupted in
These crematoria and in unmarked mass graves of Stalin's archipelago.
I. Brodsky, Nobel lecture.