Personal experience
At one time, when parents or grandmothers read us Pushkin, Yesenin and other authors (this couple dominated, but did not replace the rest), we diligently approached them, although we did not delve into what the hell it gave up to us.
Probably, there was a mistake here - not to explain to children what it is about. After all, already 30, 40, and half a century ago did not imagine the beam and did not know that sleds and sleds are one object. Now the first version of the word is unfamiliar even to the undergrowth who have exceeded the second dozen.
Is it important to understand the complexities of speech? Poetry is not an explanatory dictionary, its destiny is to attract lyrics and musicality, and many children easily learn by heart, replete with difficulties in translating fairy tales.
And Lermontov? Turgenev? Thick? Dostoevsky? Chekhov? History? Biology? Chemistry? Physics? Everywhere incomprehensible and polysyllabic words, everything needs to be taught, some and for an adult remains an incomprehensible mystery - but do we teach? And a lot of things are useful, exciting and exciting to the imagination.
The difficulties of kibitka, sled, none and other strange words did not interfere with the study of Pushkin's poems - they taught and even to a certain extent admired musicality, fairy tales were known by heart, although even there the old words were in order.
Classics remain relevant
The study of literature is important and best goes at the same time as history. This allows a person to find and feel a connection with the roots, to realize personal identity. The reader comes to the idea that he is not alone, his experiences, emotions and feelings have already been, problems are repeated from generation to generation, and most importantly - they are solvable, you can understand and get out of a difficult situation as a winner.
There should also be interest in Russian literature because the heroes there are a reflection of society. And society is unchanged, if we take into account that history moves in a spiral. A person goes through the same stages as before - childhood, adolescence, adolescence, growing up, old age. And everything has already been said, already written.
Psychoanalysis of Dostoevsky's poetic gift or accents of the influence of yellow on the actions of his heroes, alcoholic travels of heroes and authors of the domestic literary world - we postpone for later, for study at literary faculties or for books of critics.
Why do we need literature?
The answer is ambiguous and complex. Discipline is needed to:
- Set moral guidelines and give flags;
- To provide hope and faith in their own abilities;
- Broaden your horizons;
- To educate the mind and soul;
- To define the basic concepts of good and evil, that without each other they do not exist.
The task of great books is to clarify life. Literature serves as a litmus that allows you to better understand the era and highlight its basic markers.
- At the beginning of the XX century, there was a great turmoil - and during this period there was not a single fully sane author.
- Khrushchev's thaw came – and a generation of front-line writers appeared, Solzhenitsyn's talent was ignited.
- Stagnation came - and the violent ceased to be in honor, their place was taken by boring production novels - just in a different style. And everything else was pushed to the periphery, turning into a marginal one.
Literature reflects the existence, flowering and decay, what has happened and is happening before our eyes no worse than a history textbook. Or better! It causes an emotional shake-up and a desire to deal with the causes and prerequisites.
Do not limit ourselves to the XX century: similar rules operated in the XIX and XVIII centuries, and each gives us a fraction of the knowledge necessary for understanding and perception of modernity. Old ideas decorated under a new sauce triumph in the world today.
The situation is changing, but a person is looking for the truth, tormented by his own sins and the injustice of the world, knowing himself and others, while remaining the same. Literature, like a good psychologist, contributes to the best search for roots, observation of patterns and processes.
The good old "ray of light in the dark realm" can be found in any family or collective today.
Is there any practical benefit?
Yes, and it is undoubted, because classical literature can give a person something that is not under the power of comics or books in the adventure genre. Reading, a person learns:
- Expressing one's own feelings in written and oral form. And we are not talking about expositions or writings, but about a huge stock of lexical units demonstrated by prose and poetic works;
- Understanding that you are not alone, people can have the same serious problems as you, and they will still cope with them;
- Correlation of personality and historical process, knowledge of the past through sources, and not a simple enumeration of dates;
- Gaining a means of understanding the expression of feelings, obtaining an emotional range slightly wider than that of an empty tin can.
These reasons are enough to make sure that the written word has not lost its relevance, even the transition from paper books to digital media does not contribute to the departure into the past of the entire layer of Russian literature.
