The most famous literary parodist of the Soviet era - this is how Alexander Ivanov is called in modern textbooks and encyclopedias. Why is there a Soviet one. In the entire Russian literary history, apart from him, there was not a single author who could raise the parody genre to such a peak.
The genre of literary parody was quite popular in the Soviet years. Especially in poetry. There were so many parodist poets that, after a relatively short period of time, Alexander Ivanov is remembered from not only one.
The rise of the parodist Ivanov
As the parodist himself admitted already at the time of his fame, in his youth he thought about a poetic future. But too much competition in the poetic environment frightened him off. “How many poets are born in Russia in a century? Well five, well ten. And in our Union of Writers, there are thousands of those”- reasoned young Ivanov and became a drawing teacher.
But the craving for poetry did not leave him. He wrote his first parodies and sent them to Literaturnaya Gazeta in the newly opened Club of 12 Chairs. And they were printed. For this, venerable parodists sometimes stood in line for the publication of their "masterpieces" for years. And then a novice author, and immediately such a success.
But not everything at the beginning of Ivanov's creative life was so simple. Yes, it was published. But they also scolded in full. In addition, the young parodist, by virtue of his poetic specificity, immediately acquired a lot of enemies in the poetic environment.
After all, he composed not just parodies. In his parody poems, he very witty, bitingly, without knowing mercy, ridiculed the parodied authors. And, that is not a parody, then the bull's-eye.
Especially the authors who tried to identify themselves with poetic geniuses in their creations.
The pinnacle of parodist success
But Ivanov's popularity is growing. He already boldly writes parodies of the grandees of Soviet poetry of those years: Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Akhmadulina, Okudzhava … Yesterday's enemies line up for parodies. For them, his parodies turn into a PR tool.
The parodist himself speaks about his work with constant irony.
He does not write devastating articles,
He is more of a humanist by nature.
The author of books of poetic parodies.
Poets scare children with it
He also has prosaic parodies. A favorite subject for such parodies is Valentin Pikul. They also say that Ivanov is the ancestor of an endless series of anecdotes about Stirlitz, having written a parody "The Eighteenth Moment of Spring" on the famous novel by Yulian Semenov.
“… So, maybe you, Stirlitz, are the second person in the Reich after the Fuehrer,” Bormann asked anxiously.
Stirlitz modestly lowered his gaze:
- Well, why the second? …"
But Alexander Ivanov reached his real peak in the mid-seventies, becoming the permanent leader of the then most popular in the USSR
TV show "Around the laugh".
However, he did not just become a popular TV presenter. I didn’t just get the opportunity to convey my creativity to the reader from the TV screen. He got the opportunity to personally select talented authors for his TV show and popularize their work.
After the peak of his career, Ivanov has a sharp decline. In the early 90s, he rushes about in a creative search. He tries to create his own theater and even goes into politics. But all this does not bring him satisfaction. The poet's heart can not stand it. In 1996, Alexander Ivanov died.
