meaning of " ochered' "

[Alexandra Smith]

Quoting Olga Meerson <meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU>:

> The most famous ochered' I know from Russian culture is described in  
>  Akhmatova's Requiem. --

I entirely agree with Olga's comment regards the wrong usage of fun in  
relation to the representations of OCHERED' in many narratives found  
in Soviet literature. Another example that deals with trauma od  
Stalinism and ochered' is Lidiya Chukovskaya's short novel SOFIA  
PETROVNA (sometimes known as Opustelyj dom). It resonates well with  
Akhmatova's text and has some graphic details related to people  
waiting outside the prison in Leningrad to be told about the  
whereabouts of the arrested members of their families...
And Andrei Voznesenskij's 1959 poem "Kassirsha" (Nemykh obschitali,  
nemye vopili..." might be also viewed as part of the tradition that  
links traumatic experiences to OCHERED' presented in the poem as a  
community of traumatised individuals.--

КАССИРША
Немых обсчитали.
Немые вопили.
Медяшек медали
влипали в опилки.

И гневным протестом,
что все это сказки,
кассирша, как тесто,
вздымалась из кассы.

И сразу по залам,
сыркам, патиссонам,
пахнуло слезами,
как будто озоном.

О, слез этих запах
в мычащей ораве.
Два были без шапок.
Их руки орали.

А третий с беконом
подобием мата
ревел, как Бетховен,
земно и лохмато!

В стекло барабаня,
ладони ломая,
орала судьба моя
глухонемая!

Кассирша, осклабясь,
косилась на солнце
и ленинский абрис
искала
        в полсотне.

Но не было Ленина.

Она была
       фальшью...
Была бакалея.
В ней люди и фарши.
1959

All best,
Sasha Smith



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Alexandra Smith (PhD, University of London)
Lecturer in Russian
School of European Languages and Cultures
The University of Edinburgh
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