Caravaggio’s mistake” 1
A
fragment of the story “The Ark of Losers” from the electronic book “Caravaggio’s Mistake” by Anatolii Mykhailenko.
It talks about Sergei visiting the apartment of his friend Sharik. (Zhurovsky
Street, 4).
From Sharik, he learned
about many things, including the work of the Impressionists and
post-expressionists ― during the Khrushchev “thaw,” and after it, they again
captured the minds of young people interested in art. And the characters in the
picture “Absinthe Lovers” by Pablo Picasso became even the heroes of one
Sergey's poems, just as naive as he was…
Before serving in the
army and during his service, Sergey wrote a poem like an avid “graphomaniac”
with little being known of the subleties of poetics and language. He, naturally,
was thinking about further study, and now this did not seem to him as
unrealizable as before. The example of Valery, who studied at the
correspondence department of the Faculty of Philology at Odessa University,
gave him hope that he could follow this path.
… Sergey sometimes came
to Valery's home, he just needed to be not long in the family home
environment. Valery then lived with
their wife and son in a three-room apartment with few utilities, and one
neighbor, which was very rare, and exclusive in Odessa. Valery had a small
room. There was a bed occupying the lion's share of the living area, and a
window that looked at the opposite wall of the house and backyard. On the walls
hung watercolors by the owner of the room, prints, and a gloomy portrait of a
sickly-looking man with a low forehead. This turned out to be a portrait of
Kafka.
The most romantic place
in the apartment was the dark, long zigzag corridor. If you follow it to the
end and go up three steps, you will find yourself in the kitchen with a podium,
which stood the dining table. When Sergei had been coming to Sharik, they,
sitting on this podium for the table, had conversations and drank liquors. When
Valery's wife, Tatyana, went somewhere, and they were tired of “intellectual”
classes, they played with the son of Valery, Stas, with tin soldiers. The game
quickly got on the boy's nerves and he went into another room. Adults inspired
by children's play continued to build toy troops, allowed the cavalry to
gallop, and sent armored vehicles to the enemy's flanks. Playing and
conversations, Sharik and Sergey were not thinking about what he did with a tin
soldier, the Providence does too with them, moving their by along the
black-white board, without asking for their consent for this.
"But why would we
not publish a handwritten magazine? I already even thought of a name: “Word”,
said once during a game, Sharik, and looked at him with the challenge of the
discoverer. At the same time, his eyes glowed matte like two coffee beans.
After being silent for a minute, he continued: “Can you imagine? In our
magazine, we will publish prose and verses, of the port workers...”
Almost all the guy from
their small company supported this idea with the magazine. Especially since
editing the manuscripts, and filling out a journal by hand, Sharik will be
taken on. An illustrator for the new edition had quickly found. These responsibilities were taken on by
Vladimir Kosenko, a Russian Ukrainian who came to Odesa from Kharkiv.
Naturally, what editorial office of the magazine «Word” was lo-cated in the
port hostel library and became the focus of local philosophical thought and
therefore attracted new activists. From time to time, in the library, to went
to Genka Petrov, a person of strong stature, with a broad, round face of a
district Vladimir peasant. He cut his hair like President John F. Kennedy and
wore a signature blue denim cowboy suit, for which he received the nickname
“Russian American”. In addition, he loved to play table tennis aggressively and
with enviable tenacity, working out his muscles.
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