Текст песни Светлана Крючкова - Подражание Кафке

Imitation of Kafka

Others take their loved ones away, -
I do not look after them with envy, -
One in the dock
I will soon sit for half a century.
Around the wrangling and crush
And the luscious smell of ink.
Kafka invented this
And Charlie did it.
And in those important arguments,
As in the tenacious embrace of a dream,
All three generations of jurors
They decided: she was guilty.

The faces of the convoy are changing
The sixth prosecutor is in a heart attack ...
And somewhere it darkens from the heat
Huge heavenly space
And summer full of beauty
Walks on the other side ...
I am this blissful "somewhere"
I can't imagine.
I'm deaf with loud curses
I demolished the quilted jacket to the ground.
Am I really all to blame
Have you been on this planet?
1960

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova wrote this poem in 1960, that is, even before the first publication of the translation of Kafka's works into Russian in the journal "Foreign Literature" No. 1 for 1964. However, it is known: Yu. G. Oksman wrote down from Akhmatova's words: “Her strongest impression in recent years is reading Kafka. She read it in English - one volume.

I tried it in German - it's hard. ”This is about Kafka’s novel“ The Trial. ”The fact that the poet was not satisfied with the English translation of the novel and she tried to read it in German speaks of the importance of this work for her, so most likely this is a poem was, to some extent, the motivating reason for her reading of the novel by a German writer. The reading of the novel "The Trial" took place, most likely, in 1959. In the 1960s, Akhmatova and VS Muravyov "analyzed in German" a collection of Kafka's stories; "She understood what almost no one here understood at that time: what a wonderful, great and necessary writer he is." N. A. Roskina recalled Akhmatova's words about Kafka's novel "The Trial": "I had the feeling that someone grabbed my hand and dragged me into my worst dreams. "