The Heavy Lyra

The fate of Vladislav Khodasevich - is the eternal dispute Artists Khodasevich and Khodasevich Man. The artist, who is despised earthly lot man, jealous of him, is trying to take it out for yourself - this is the central motif of the poet Khodasevich, especially pronounced in his three most famous series: "By the grain," "Heavy Lyre" and " European Night "presented in this collection. Through the head of many of his contemporaries, poets, the so-called radical innovators, Khodasevich breaks into the future of literature in our time, attracting the attention of a combination of rationality, classical verse forms of the Russian language with incredible expression and ironic "estrangement" so peculiar poetic language of the XXI century. As the contemporary Khodasevich and his eternal opponent, the poet and critic Georgy Adamovich, "it was impossible not to listen to these verses - even if no one guessed that readers will soon and to hear them."