19 2001 October, the
Gone Alexander Aronov — a journalist, teacher, poet, one of whose poems is probably known to everyone:
If you don't have an aunt
You won't lose your aunt.
And if you don't live
Either you don’t, then you don’t
Then you won't die.
Born in 1934 to a Jewish family in Moscow, he graduated from a teacher training college and landed a rather amusing first job: "substitute teacher." He taught literature in a rural school, and later mathematical linguistics at the Institute of Economics and Mathematics.
I was born during the Hundred Years' War.
He got married during the Hundred Years' War.
I lived and thought that it would soon end.
And when he died, the Hundred Years' War was going on.
At 32, he joined the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets and worked there until the end of his life. He was a columnist, wrote an op-ed column, and wrote poetry. Some of them began to live their own lives.
Stop and look back
Suddenly, suddenly, on a bend,
On that random floor,
Where do you happen to wake up?
"Stop and Look Back" dedicated to a friend To Leonid Zhukhovitsky, will later become the title of a novel. The phrase will spread throughout newspapers as a motto. And Gorbachev will declare it a sign of perestroika's "new thinking."
In broad daylight
They'll dig a grave for me
And then me
They will rehabilitate
The poem "1956" was a hit with readers of the samizdat edition of "Syntax." And the song "When You Don't Have a Dog," slightly modified and set to music, Tariverdieva, After the release of "The Irony of Fate", the whole country sang along.
He lived without bread and mercy
But, entering our village
He greeted me like warmth itself
Kind smiles and looks
And time went by much easier.
And we were really happy -
But here is the mirror glass:
And we were really happy
And time went by much easier.
Kind smiles and looks
He greeted me like warmth itself
But, entering our village
He lived without bread and mercy
In the late 70s, he wrote the poem “Ghetto. 1943” (“When the Ghetto Burned”), about the complex relationships between Poles, Jews, and Russians during and after World War II.
Passed away in 67.
In 2014, the friends published Aronov’s “Selected Works” in a print run of 1000 copies.
Eternity is ready for us
Beyond the shallow seas
And we enter in rows
In your endless hour
Uncaught thieves
Teach us morals
And the rear rats
They will keep us in line