PROLOGUE
EARS WITH NAILS AT-
BEATEN TO THE BACK OF THE NAD
Unscientific review
Zokololiterary phenomenon
True art is born among the masses.
It has always been alien and incomprehensible to the people
"high poetry" of Northerner or Pasteur-
naka, “high painting” by Vasiliev or
Chagall, Takrovsky's "high cinema".
But the lumpen, who in our country are about to
significant and frightening amount, se-
today are completely different from their brother
Pavel Vlasov from Gorky's "Mother",
whose little world was limited by a bottle
"bitter", provocative leaflets and
lathe. The current hegemon
more civilized. He creates his own, pa-
parallel culture that evokes
a smile from a mediocre intellectual and
horror among hereditary nobles. Call it
the phenomenon can be done in different ways - yard, city-
tribal, thieves culture. It is quite
well developed by modern research
contributors - linguists with the exception of
perhaps only one white spot - so
called "children's horror stories". Everyone
I've heard them, everyone has heard a couple of them
knows poems by heart. However, attempts
analyze and systematize
this mighty layer of parallel literature
there was no tour, with the exception of a timid
tags M. Novitskaya and a small selection
examples in the elite and rare
in the magazine "Slovo".
It would be naivebelieve that horror stories
were really born into a children's environment.
Most likely, two- and four-verses -
the fruit of the banter of a certain bohemian party. They
"broke out into the masses" and were these masses
accepted as one of our own.
Date of birth - mid-70s, place
birth - Moscow and Leningrad, national
flatness is soviet.
"Horror Stories" - a child of its time
style, structure and, most importantly, pop themes.
This allows us to compile some class
sification of this most popular and well-known
darkest genre. It will be very conditional
Noah, because they are almost impossible
clearly demarcate. Therefore the proposed
the division is based solely on taste
author.
All works of this genre have in common -
They are written in dactyl tetrameter.
Characteristic of Soviet poetry - from
anthem of the USSR and the International to "Vasily
Terkina" - this stop is especially close to everyone
post-war generations. Parallel with ge-
Romanic works written
this style gives horror stories a special
comedy
The main character is usually
abstract "little boy" or other
some representatives of the younger generation
nia.
1. The most primitive class mentioned
genre - everyday horror stories. With a hero about
the most fantastic things come out, but nevertheless
less, absolutely plausible adventures
values that could very well have
place in reality. Sad outcome
adventures of a "little boy"call-
for some reason there is only a smile:
The little boy climbed onto the ledge
But he stumbled and rushed down.
He did an Arabian somersault in the air.
It took a long time to scrape it off the asphalt.
The "childishness" of everyday horror stories is often
gives a mention of the school and is quite natural
personal hatred for her, for the teaching
lam, to everything related to the curriculum
process:
The little boy found the rope.
He came to school with this toy.
The counselor and the children laughed for a long time -
The bald director hangs in the toilet.
It is curious that pathological disgust
the entrance to the school is often adjacent to several
to a hostile attitude towards parents,
who are destined for the most terrible punishments:
The girl Masha found a dagger,
She approached her father with this toy.
Dad ran zigzag into the forest -
He felt cold metal in his back.
A little boy found an anti-aircraft gun,
He pointed his small hand at dad.
I pressed the pedal with my little foot.
Leftover from daddy x.. yes sandal.
However, the ancestors also do not remain in debt:
The daughter asked her mother for some candy.
Mom said, “Put your finger in the mouth.”
socket".
The girl's bones smoked for a long time.
The guests laughed for a long time at the joke.
The girl found a razor in the field.
"What is this?" - she asked dad.
"It's a harmonica."
The baby's smile gets wider and wider.
Grandmother was waiting for her granddaughter from school,
Potassium cyanide in a mortar.
Grandfather Grandmotherahead -
He nailed his granddaughter to the fence.
But still, often between children and adults
there is complete mutual understanding:
Grandmother loved her granddaughter very much -
I put a mine under my pillow to sleep.
At night two powerful explosions were heard -
The granddaughter also loved her grandmother.
2. A series of horror stories related to "children's"
games" - one of the most famous
nykh. However, the entertainment of a teenager
generations are very peculiar, but quite
but traditional for normal children is
totalitarian period of our history. The most
more classic: "The children were playing in the basement
to the hospital - plumber Si- died of childbirth
Nitsyn". But there is also a more extended
a similar option:
Children in the basement played Gestapo -
Plumber Potapov was brutally tortured:
The ears were nailed to the back of the head.
The plumber didn't reveal where he hid the bottle!
Meanwhile, the basement is not the only place -
then the leisure activities of idle teenagers
kov.Still they prefer fresh
air:
Masha and Misha were playing on the roof.
After two shots it became quieter.
A little boy was riding down a slide.
The little boy was not afraid of the river.
But he didn’t notice the hole in the river...
The corpse took a long time to thaw by the stove.
3. "Agricultural" division
the genre is apparently inspired by acute relationships
youth with redneck private owners
arguments. It is characteristic that victory is
It turns out that it’s on the same side,
then on her opposing side, thatgive birth to
lo a kind of cycle about unlike names
guards and various fruit crops:
A little boy climbed a cherry tree
Grandfather Afanasy took out his sawn-off shotgun.
The shot rang out and the boy fell.
“Forty-nine,” the watchman said.
The boy went into the garden to pick up plums.
The watchman Yevsey took out his sawn-off shotgun.
The shot rang out and the watchman fell -
The father was covering the boy from behind.
In the last example it often occurs
different, less original, but “more
life" is over today
saying: “The boy got his Mauser out earlier.”
4. The effect of construction horror stories is
comes, of course, at construction sites and other
some similar places:
A little boy was walking around a construction site.
A three-ton roller passed by.
The boy decided to check the system -
Now you can hang it on the wall.
Similar situations found at least
funny resolution:
A little boy was walking around a construction site,
I accidentally fell into a barrel of gasoline.
He began to choke and stuck his nose out,
The kind uncle brought me a match.
A little boy was playing in the sand.
There was a small dump truck nearby -
There were no screams, there were no moans -
Only the shoes stick out from the concrete.
The boy climbed into the concrete mixer.
Uncle didn't notice him. It's a pity...
5. Political horror stories make you
the author's feeling of calf delight, trans-
going into pathological ecstasy. This one
very small classgreatest
not popular among older people
our schoolchildren, as it should be
expect, and among primary school students
owls, which is apparently due to the fact that
but during this period the study begins
life and work of the “great leaders”:
Felix Edmundych was walking around the construction site.
Vladimir Ilyich watched him.
The brick clinks loudly on your head -
Vladimir Ilyich throws accurately!
Simultaneously with a political bias
has a very direct connection to school
laconic but eloquent statement
tion:
On a rope looking into the distance
Komsomol Secretary.
Possibly of Leningrad origin
pearls on how:
The children played Sasha Ulyanov -
A bomb was thrown into Romanov's car.
Relationships between youth and representatives
by the totalitarian authorities also folds
It wasn't easy:
Red Square, green Christmas trees,
Little boy in a white T-shirt.
ZIL-117 rushed by, rustling.
No, they won’t wait for the baby to come home.
A little boy was playing with a ball.
I accidentally got into a black Volga.
And the crowbar is already flying at the baby.
There was a good boy named Vovka!
A little boy found a grenade.
And he approached the village council with her.
He pulled the ring and threw it out the window.
Grandfather is old - he doesn’t care.
6. Sexy horror stories - the most mini-
turny thematic section. The author knows -
only somewhat comparatively published
whiteworks from this cycle:
Two lovers lay in the rye.
Nearby, a combine harvester stood at the boundary line.
It started up quietly and went quietly.
Someone found a stick in the loaf.
October Palkin Petya
Choked during a blow job.
And, probably, our squad
Expelled from October.
Children's pranks don't always end
so harmless and sometimes lead to satisfaction
but with serious consequences:
Two butchers on a bloody plywood
They performed an abortion on a pioneer woman with an awl.
7. The section of militaristic horror stories has
There are several thematic divisions.
It is characteristic that in the fabric of the narrative
stamps and logos are very organically woven
zungi, which abounded in the newspapers of the
dins of the seventies and who were quoted
in pioneer chants and numerous
oaths:
Grandfather Mitrofanich sat down on a tree stump:
"Oh, what a tough day it is today!"
Pants flew over the forest for a long time...
Here it is, the vile echo of war!!!
Great Patriotic War theme, sleek
and idealized in official summer-
pussies, appears in a sophisticated, but sorry-
lui, incomparably more real light in
alternative literature:
Grandma Polina went through the raspberries,
I stepped on a mine with my bare foot.
I'll be dreaming about it for a long time
Her blue eyes are on the pine tree.
This section includes the most famous
precise, according to the author, quatrain:
The girl Masha found a grenade.
“What should we do with it?” she asked.
“Pull the ring,” her unclesaid.
The bow flew over the field for a long time...
This plot has countless variations.
ations, differing only in character and
specific situation. Enough weight
just...
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