![]() ![]() So that it would be disgusting to read.” This one is ironic, but some people detest Yerofeyev for his ‘alcoholic’ prose. The other Yerofeyev quotation on the sacred art of writing goes like this: “One should write as bad as possible. Moscow to The End of The Line mixes styles in an unpredictable way. He followed this pattern: everything from the New Testament to the Russian classics, and all the way to the bureaucratic Soviet newspapers and obscene language of the streets was inspirational to him. ![]() “Every item you see must be able to become a theme for you,” Yerofeyev wrote in his notes published under the title A Useless Fossil. Or just read him/her some Yerofeyev, and go get drunk together. Perhaps your boss wouldn’t like that one – so be careful. In order to climb it, it’s necessary to be forged steel-assed from head to toe. Here’s how Yerofeyev describes his feelings after being sacked: “I’ll remain below, and from below I spit on their social ladder. ![]() Sometimes Yerofeyev's admirers meet near his monument in the center of Moscow - and, of course, drink.įor a while, Yerofeyev (the poem’s hero) worked as a foreman in a brigade of four workers, but he was fired because they did nothing but drink, just like many others did in order to escape senseless labor. ![]()
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