Gurevich, P. S. ‘Out of the Flame and Light the Word Was Born’ (Dedicated to the memory of the poet Alexander Aronov)

Abstract: The essay is devoted to the memory of a poet Alexander Aronov. This year it will be thirteen years since his death. Alexander Aronov was born on August 30, 1934 in Moscow. His mother was uneducated but well read. She named her sons after the brothers Pushkins. She named her eldest son Alexander and her youngest son Lev. Alexander Aronov’s father was a musician. He tried to teach his son some music but Alexander, as he himself admitted, ‘would fall on the piano hitting his forehead and go to sleep’. However, he discovered another talent – a gift for poetry. Alexander started to write poems when he was a school student. His poems were often published in newspapers much time had passed by till a book of his poems was published. Aronov’s first book ‘The Island of Safety’ was published in 1987 when the author was 53 years old. His second book ‘The Text’ came two years later. However, many Russians still hum his verses from the movie ‘The Irony of Fate’ that became words of the famous songs in the movie such as ‘If you have no house, it will never go on fire, if you have no wife, she will never leave you for anyone else, if you have no aunt, she will never decease, if you don’t live, you will never die’ and etc. The author of this essay uses the literary critical analysis of Alexander Aronov’s works. He also compares his poetry with the poems written by other poets and uses the method of phenomenological analysis of poetry. Many authors have written about the poet such as Bella Akhmadulina, Evgeny Rein, Vadim Chernyak, Sergey Nitochkin, Igor Guberman, Alexander Eremenko, Alexander Minkin, Sergey Aman, Gennady Aygi, Ivan Zhdaov, Leoid Zhukhovitsky, Tatyana Bek, Sergey Mnatsakanyan, Oleg Khlebnikov, Andrey Chernov and Andrey Yakhontov. But there is no limit to understanding poetry so the author of the present essay offers his own interpretation of the poetry of a famous Russia poet Alexander Aronov.

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