Аннотация: A note on a literary irony in connection with the reading of Gennady Matveyev"s book "Pilsudski"
A note on a literary irony in connection with the reading of Gennady Matveyev's book 'Pilsudski'
At some point, when reading the book 'Pilsudski', a reader discovers the surname Niewiadomski. Niewiadomski is the man who shot and killed the first president of Poland, Gabriel Narutowicz, in 1922 - a few days after Narutowicz took office.
The surname "Niewiadomski" is not very common.
However, a such surname is found in the story of Yuri Trifonov "Exchange". "-- Yes! That's who you need - with Niewiadomski! ... Everything had to be done very urgently. And succeeded, you know, perfectly succeeded! Here he will tell you. True, he had leads, links in the district department. In short, so: he managed to make an exchange..., - he transported his mother-in-law, received a personal account, and three days later the old woman died. '
Earlier, we spoke about Yuri Trifonov as about a representative of the Velikolithuanian - East-republican - Russian - Soviet literature ... ("A Russian literature - A Soviet literature - A Russial literature. A new ideas. An essay on the problems of a literary history." - December 14, 2019)
Perhaps, in the figure of Niewiadomski from "Exchange" by Yuri Trifonov, a certain literary irony is hidden.
However, this is not the only surname, upon meeting which, the reader may feel a some irony.
For example, in the book by Gennady Matveev we find such phrases: '... On the Polish-Soviet front, the success in those days [1919] accompanied the Polish army. The Soviet leadership, for whom the main threat at that time was Anton Ivanovich Denikin, a native of the Kingdom of Poland and the son of a Polish mother, had in Belarus a limited number of not very combat-ready units. (...) For Pilsudski, interaction with the 'fellow countryman' Denikin, a supporter of 'united and indivisible Russia', was unacceptable. (...) ... from the military interaction with the whites, in particular, in August 1919, during the march of Denikin toward Kiev, Pilsudski refused. '
We continue reading ... "And again, as in the past in Belarus and in Vilenchina [the area of Wilno - Vilnius] [the small homeland of Pilsudski], the logic of war came into effect. The Soviet side not only did not request an immediate peace, but also tried to compensate for the failure in Right-Bank Ukraine by the advance of the Western Front, which was commanded - in spring 1920 - by the recent lieutenant of the tsar's army Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky (his origin was from the Smolensk szlachta).
Dear author of the biography doesn't seem to call Mikhail Tukhachevsky 'fellow countryman' ... ... He mentions one of the significant works by Jozef Pilsudski '1920. Regarding the work of M. Tukhachevsky 'The March to the Vistula'(the work by Pilsudski was published in 1924).
Pilsudski, Denikin, Tukhachevsky, and many others were separated from each other by a many questions and problems ... Perhaps all of them had, nevertheless, the same desire - to live a normal human (European) life ...
Some irony is felt in such a phrase from the book 'Pilsudski': 'What is absolutely surprising for an Eastern European politician, the former terrorist did not use his stay in power for personal enrichment and did not allow such a behaviour for his surroundings.' ...
March 14, 2020 12:11
Translation from Russian into English: March 15, 2020 02:52.
Владимир Владимирович Залесский 'Заметка о литературной иронии в связи с чтением книги Геннадия Матвеева 'Пилсудский''.