The poet Igor Irtenyev, in turn, reacted unflatteringly to the criticism of children's ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova, who today included his comic poem about an eye in the toilet in the list of indecent children's works. As the radio station “Moscow Speaks” reports, Irtenyev said that he was not ready to argue with the children's ombudsman, but believed that his poem should make a normal child laugh.
“How to react to this? This clean water idiocy. Idiocy that is a trend in everyone government agencies. Now everything is going on under the sign of idiocy. I didn’t write this poem as a children’s poem, but it is in my book about the pirate Uncle Petya. I believe that a normal child with an odd head is quite capable of appreciating him and laughing,” said the poet.
A little earlier, the Commissioner for Children’s Rights under the President, Anna Kuznetsova, at a conference in the Russian State Children’s Library presented a selection of modern children’s literature, which, in her words, “ Even adults are afraid to show it».
The list, in particular, included Igor Irtenev’s poem about an eye that fell into the toilet, and Svetlana Lavrova’s fairy tale “Where the Cock’s Horse Gallops.”
“Unfortunately, parents sometimes come across things like this in books... Honestly, I can’t even voice some of them, because it’s embarrassing to say what they sometimes write in children’s books. The most decent of all is “Where the Cock's Horse Gallops”... A fairy tale about an eye that, excuse me, fell into the toilet. There is something to laugh at, but also something to think about,” said Kuznetsova.
Full text of the poem by Igor Irtenev:
I dropped it in the toilet
Somehow here the other day
Your favorite brown eye.
Right. Penultimate.
He looked with a farewell glance,
Dove's eye
Directly into my soul with reproach,
Carrying away with the flow.
And since then I've been dreaming about everything
At night in silence
How's he doing with his eyelashes?
It stirs at the bottom.
The Commissioner for Children's Rights has compiled a list of the most indecent children's books. On Thursday, during her speech at a conference at the Russian State Children's Library, Anna Kuznetsova presented a list of 16 books, where, according to her, there are things that are embarrassing to voice.
“Kommersant FM” provides quotes from some indecent, in the opinion of the Ombudsman, works.
Igor Irtenev, “The Tale of the Eye That Fell into the Toilet”
I dropped it in the toilet
Somehow here the other day
Your favorite brown eye.
Right. Penultimate.
He looked with a farewell glance,
Dove's eye
Directly into my soul with reproach,
Carrying away with the flow.
And since then I've been dreaming about everything
At night in silence
How's he doing with his eyelashes?
It stirs at the bottom.
Svetlana Lavrova, excerpt from the book “The Cock Horse”
And now Dasha was hovering over the computer, coming up with the beginning. She immediately decided to work with local material so that Pera the hero would become the main character, famous character Komi fairy tales and legends. But tell about it in modern style. True, Pera resolutely did not want to modernize. “This will be an action movie,” Dasha realized. - Redistribution of territories and steep showdowns. Leshy is the head of the local mafia, driving drugs from fly agarics. The fight against the drug mafia is fashionable.”
Sergei Mikhalkov, excerpt from the poem “Flu”
Antoshka the cat jumped from the window
On the bed in one leap.
If you want, I'll tell you, Antoshka,
Shall I fill my nose with powder?
Anna Kuznetsova expressed the hope that her list of indecent children's works “will not look like black PR.”
Books for children must be written in the correct literary language, not forgetting about moral standards, he believes editor-in-chief publishing house "Children's Literature" Irina Kotunova: “Some ethical issues are not satisfactory in these works, they are not regulated by any laws. Many boundaries are now blurred, and unsettled children’s minds can be greatly harmed by such books. Then, it still exists literary language, and now in many works they are trying colloquial speech convey, youth slang - I’m not even talking about obscene expressions. Maybe for an adult audience - yes, but why does a child need all this? And so it rushes from everywhere. Still, literature must adhere to a certain level and lift the child up a notch.”
The poet Igor Irtenyev has already commented on the statement of the children's ombudsman about his comic poem. He emphasized that a normal child would appreciate it - it would make him laugh. Irtenyev also noted that Anna Kuznetsova’s words are “idiocy, which is a trend in all government structures.”
As for Lavrova’s prose, there are several weak points, but nothing indecent, I'm sure literary critic Konstantin Milchin: “A significant, if not most, of children’s literature after 2000 is an attempt to write your own new Harry Potter.” It’s very interesting when they try to write Harry Potter in some unusual, non-standard language. folklore motif. Svetlana Lavrova tried to do this using the folklore of the Komi people. On the one hand, this is very cool, but the end of the book is completely disastrous, and the title, in my opinion, is also not the best. The execution of the book is not very successful, but I would like there to be more such works. It’s a shame that our officials somehow sluggishly criticized this book; it’s unclear on what basis this opinion was made.”
The provisions of the law “On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and development” apply in Russia and to literary works. All subtle points related to vocabulary and ethics are at the discretion of the publisher.
Alexandra Kozlova
Poet Igor Irtenyev called criticism of his poem “The Tale of the Eye,” written in 1991, “idiocy.”
“How to react to this? This is pure idiocy. Idiocy, which is a trend in all government structures. Now everything is going on under the sign of idiocy. I didn’t write this poem as a children’s poem, but it is in my book about the pirate Uncle Petya. I believe that a normal child, not with a square head, is quite capable of appreciating him and laughing,” the publication “Moscow Speaks” quotes the poet.
Let us remember that on Thursday, Children's Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova said that the poem about an eye that fell into the toilet “makes you think.”
As part of a conference at the Russian State Children's Library, she listed 16 books that “even adults are scared to show.”
“Unfortunately, parents sometimes come across things like this in books... Honestly, I can’t even voice some of them, because it’s embarrassing to say what they sometimes write in children’s books. The most decent of all is “Where the Cock's Horse Gallops”... A fairy tale about an eye that, excuse me, fell into the toilet. There is something to laugh at, but also something to think about,” Kuznetsova said.
Full version of the poem “The Tale of the Eye”:
I dropped it in the toilet
Somehow here the other day
Your favorite brown eye.
Right. Penultimate.
He looked with a farewell glance,
Dove's eye
Directly into my soul with reproach,
Carrying away with the flow.
And since then I've been dreaming about everything
At night in silence
How's he doing with his eyelashes?
It stirs at the bottom.
At a conference at the Russian State Children's Library, Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation Anna Kuznetsova presented a selection of modern children's literature, which, in her words, “even adults are scared to show.”
The list of the Children's Ombudsman includes 16 works of modern children's literature. Among them, in particular, is Svetlana Lavrova's fairy tale "Where the cock's horse gallops" and the poet Igor Irtenev's poem "The Tale of the Eye" that "fell into the toilet."
“Unfortunately, parents sometimes come across this in books...”, the children’s ombudsman intrigued. Kuznetsova admitted that there were some things she couldn’t even voice, “because it’s embarrassing to say what they sometimes write in children’s books.”
“The most decent of all is “Where the Cock Horse Gallops”... A fairy tale about an eye that, excuse me, fell into the toilet. There is something to laugh at, but also something to think about,” said Kuznetsova.
At the same time, she expressed the hope that this list “will not look like black PR,” RIA Novosti reports.
After this list became known, the author of “The Tale of the Eye,” Igor Irtenyev, called it “pure idiocy,”
In a commentary to the radio station “Moscow Speaks,” he explained that this comic verse, written back in 1991, was not addressed specifically to children.
“Although in my book about the pirate Uncle Petya it (this poem) is,” said the poet and added that “a normal child not with a square head is quite able to appreciate it and laugh.” However, judge for yourself:
"The Tale of the Eye"
I dropped it in the toilet
Somehow here the other day
Your favorite brown eye.
Right. Penultimate.
He looked with a farewell glance,
Dove's eye
Directly into my soul with reproach,
Carrying away with the flow.
And since then I've been dreaming about everything
At night in silence
How's he doing with his eyelashes?
It stirs at the bottom.
Source - http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=2982973&cid=7