Ivo Siromakhov: Literature is also an adventure

Ivo Siromakhov: Literature is also an adventure

Published 13.04.2024 | By Йосиф

Ivo Siromakhov: Literature is also an adventure, it is a way to get to know the world

Because we are talking about the wrong educational system, which does not give students the opportunity to experience the joy of reading, but expects them to answer the question “what did the author want to say” and to cram stupid analyzes written by some complex people…

Many teachers oppose this nonsense.

There are many teachers who understand the failure of the educational program and sometimes raise a voice of resistance. But there is no one to hear them. Officials in the ministry are terrified if they have to make a decision.

I remember one of my remarkable literature teachers in the 19th school, Elin Pelin. When we were in fourth grade, she read aloud to us Upton Sinclair’s wonderful novel The Gnomobile. I will never forget how I sit at my desk, looking out the window at the blossoming chestnut trees in the school yard, and the teacher’s singsong voice transports me to fairy worlds.

Once she brought a bouquet of spring flowers to class, put them on her desk, played Vivaldi’s “Seasons” on the gramophone and told us: “Write!” No theme, no frames, no limits. Just writing what we’re thinking at the moment. It was an extraordinary experience.

I remember I wrote a fairy tale in which the flowers talked to each other…

This is literature. It is not “what the author meant”.

Besides, literature is also an adventure. It is a way to get to know the world. I realized it in Dublin when I crossed the bridges over the River Liffey, named after the great Irish writers – Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett.

In England I made a trip to places associated with my favorite authors – I went to Chaucer’s Canterbury, to Bristol, from where the pirates set off for Treasure Island, in London I went to the restored Globe Theater on the Thames, to Shakespeare’s hometown – Stratford to Avon and at Belfort Castle, where the real author of Shakespeare’s plays may have lived. In such places, the spirit of great writers is especially strongly felt.

This is literature. It is not “what the author meant”.

Literature cannot be framed.

It is freedom.

She is a flight.

She is a delight.

Give the children a chance to experience it!

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