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⌈ Secret Post #2594 ⌋

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[visvang.livejournal.com]

No, I'm way too young to have been studying at school during Soviet times, it was 2001 or 2002. But yeah, she was by no means the best literature teacher in the world.

I see what you mean. Vagueness upon vagueness :(
I'm not sure most people consider Yerofeev a classic author, partly because of foul language he uses I'm afraid

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No, I'm way too young to have been studying at school during Soviet times, it was 2001 or 2002. But yeah, she was by no means the best literature teacher in the world.

I see what you mean. Vagueness upon vagueness :(
I'm not sure most people consider Yerofeev a classic author, partly because of foul language he uses I'm afraid <insert here reasoning on what's considered "appropriate" and "inappropriate" and how it affects lots of things in our society>

And then there is genre classics... I mean, I think of Sidney Sheldon as a classic of detective story but I'm not sure he is a classic writer. Or Isaac Asimov and sci-fi, or even Astrid Lindgren and children's literature. So I can imagine JK Rowling becomes a classic children's author in some time but I don't think she ever becomes a classic author along with Mark Twain, Bernard Shaw, Albert Camus or Mikhail Bulgakov. I wonder who will among the now-living writers?

[dreemyweird]

True, Yerofeyev's love of obscenities might have made him ineligible :) But still, there are such people as Sholokhov and Yuri Koval and maybe some borderline classic Silver-Age poets like Vladislav Khodasevich.

Ah, the genre classics. I think you are right about Rowling - she does look the part of a future classic children's author.

I wonder who will among the now-living writers?

I wonder this, too! Though I think that it is hard to predict, not only because our tastes may be different from those of our descendants, but also because there are always people who only achieve any sort of popularity after death, which is why we may be simply unaware of their existence (refer to Kafka). Still, we can take guesses in regard to the now-living popular authors. Though I must admit I have little idea. From the Russian ones it may be, dunno, Ulitskaya? Petrushevskaya? Among the English-speaking folks, Terry Pratchett? But one of the problems is that I'm not really up-to-date with the modern literature, so I'm probably the wrong person to speculate about it. I wish I knew somebody who'd read all the modern stuff and could tell me about it.

[visvang.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, I haven't read anything by Ulitskaya, Petrushevskaya and Pratchett yet :(
I suddenly had a thought that, besides all things you wrote about earlier, problems described in a classic book have to be kind of eternal for humanity (I know it sounds pathetic, I'm sorry). For example, I love Neil Gaiman very much but I have some doubts that future generations would have the same attitude. It seems to me that despite all the mythological elements in his books they are very modern and deal with all kinds of problems of modern society (I may be mistaken though).