Текст песни Владимир Одоевский - Живой мертвец

Genre: Russian classics

It is no accident that Dostoevsky, in his first work, Poor People, epigraphs a quotation from Odoevsky's The Living Dead. Even the intonation of the spoken language of the hero passes into Dostoevsky's story, and the epigraph seems to be part of Makar Devushkin's letter.
“Oh, these storytellers for me! There is no way to write something useful, pleasant, delectable, otherwise all the ins and outs in the earth are revealed! I would have forbidden them to write! Well, what does it look like, you read it ... you involuntarily think about it, and then all sorts of rubbish will go into your head; the right to forbid them to write; it would be so easy to completely ban "