“I APPEAL TO THE CONGRESS” MARK KRINITSKY AGAINST “FALSE REPRESENTATIVENESS” OF SOCIALIST REALISM
Modernist writer Mark Krinitsky (1874-1952) - one of the most fashionable writers of the Silver Age - was widely known for his romance novels, polemical and philosophical articles on the nature of artistic creativity. In Soviet times, he proved to be almost the only member of the Writers' Union who dared to criticize during the 1930s the main method of Soviet literature - socialist realism - to criticize openly, without fear of repression. He spoke at many meetings on the problems of Soviet literature as a supporter of fiction, which, in his opinion, must be free from the dictate of the party and the state. This criticism was not superficial, but deep. It touched upon not only the subject of socialist realism, but also the commissioned nature of literary works by Soviet writers. Mark Krynitsky remained faithful to his modernist ideas about freedom of creativity and demanded from the writer not “reflection” of socialist reality, but transformation of the inner world of man by involving him in the emotional experience of ideal motives of his life.