Dmitry Bak is a Russian literary critic, philologist, literary critic, journalist, translator, and teacher. Director of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature. IN AND. Dahl, who cares with all his heart for the creation of a single, central Russian museum of the history of literature in Moscow.
Biography
Dmitry Petrovich Bak was born on June 24, 1961 in Elizovo, Kamchatka region.
Parents are military doctors. The family moved frequently due to their occupation. They lived for a long time in the cities of Chernivtsi and Lvov.
Andrei loved books and reading from an early age. I learned to write early. In the home library there were only medical books, but he also read them with pleasure. Moving from city to city, the first thing he did was to sign up for the library. Everyone remembers, especially the library in Chernivtsi. For many years she was his second home and mysterious home with stained-glass windows instead of glass.
Homebrew philosopher
Parents were surprised that Dmitry somehow strangely combined two hobbies: reading and football. Thirst for knowledge and innate literacy did not prevent him from being a good goalkeeper. He read books to their holes, read one book several times. He liked to think about what was going on in the book. In football, standing at the goal, there was a feeling that you could react in time and win.
But the real reading came later - in 8th or 9th grade. Then there was a fashion not for lyricists, but for physicists. The priority fell to the mathematical and physical sciences. But Dmitry did not want to do either mathematics or physics, although he won many mathematical Olympiads. Interest in books did not disappear, but only grew. He began to buy books, read, store and admire them. Currently, according to Dmitry Bak, there are about 25 thousand books in his home library.
The birth of literature in it took place in three stages:
v childhood - striving for letter recognition and reading books about animals
v 17 years - the decision to enter the Faculty of Philology
v 19-20 years - the final understanding that literature is the most important thing in his life, that the ability to recognize the meanings of texts and teach it to others is his occupation.
Therefore, after graduating from the philological faculty, he took up teaching and for more than 30 years has been teaching young people the ability to read and comprehend texts.
Teaching
In 1983 D. Bak graduated from the philological faculty of Chernivtsi State University. Received a diploma in philology, later a teacher. Since then, Dmitry Bak teaches how to read texts correctly, instills a love of reading, helps students to love the history of literature, respect the book and extract knowledge from any text.
D. Bak taught in many cities of Ukraine, Berlin, Krakow. Since 1991 he has been working with students of the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Communicating with the younger generation for several decades, he saw how deep the problem of reading is.
In interviews, the question is often asked: "Does the current video generation read at all?" He sadly replies that they do, but not much, because large texts and modern consciousness are incompatible things. Young people not only do not want to read, but also cannot. Y. Habermas is right - a philosopher who, back in the middle of the 20th century, said that a person's biological species is changing. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, this observation is being confirmed. Skill of writing and paper reading disappears. Writing is the finest muscular motor skills that develops the mind and thinking. Digital technology will kill everything. The book, as a fact of widespread mass culture, has survived the last decades. In a generation or two, little will be known about the book. It will be as alive to us as papyrus and cuneiform. The book will not die, but for a person it will become something distant and not such a desirable subject as it was in previous centuries.
Soul pain
Since 2013 Dmitry Bak is the director of the State Literary Museum. He, along with other directors of past years, defends the idea of the initiator - Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich.
D. Bak's modern idea is to achieve maximum openness and accessibility of museum values. He sees the literary museum as a mega-complex with many floors and halls.
Such a central building will allow placing and displaying the maximum number of archival and stock values. Now, a large number of exhibits are simply dead weight in various funds and archives. There are unique manuscripts, rare audio recordings with living voices of poets, wax discs of the Edison era, church books, incunabula - the first printed books published before 1500. There are objects that have never been exhibited, since there is no territorial opportunity to show them in all their glory …
D. Bak often speaks out of the problematic nature of creating such a centralized literary museum. The difficulty also lies in the fact that it is difficult to present literary treasures to the visitor. After all, literature is not painting, where visuality is important. In literature, verbosity is important.
With great regret, Dmitry speaks of the death of the printed book for future generations. But the digital era is already here and this is inevitable. He is glad that he still had the happiness of living with books. There was a period in his life when he literally slept in the library. He worked as a night watchman. There is no highest happiness for him when he can sit in the library for many hours. Dmitry is happy that he has collected about 25 thousand books in his own library. He is very attached to the books that decay with him, keep his notes. He will never part with them and will read them to the last.
Personal life
D. Bak's wife is Elena Borisovna Borisova. She is a philologist. Teaches Russian. They have three children - two daughters and a son Dmitry, a journalist, the famous presenter of Channel One. He is known under the name of his mother - "Borisov". He speaks several languages - French, English, German, Italian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian.
Talented reader of texts
D. Bak is an active social and scientific figure. Author of many studies in the history of Russian literature. Participant of literary conferences, festivals, forums and projects.
Andrei understood his mission in his early youth and calls himself a reader, perceiver and thinker of texts. He is a follower of the idea of V. Bonch-Bruevich and a propagandist of Russian literature. He believes that the creation of a centralized large museum in Moscow is a matter of national importance. After all, Russian literature and its history is the main brand of the Russian people, and it is worthy of universal and worldwide display and recognition.
