Habibullo-Eugene Kiselev
A Synopsis of my Life
December 20th, 2017, Wednesday, 11:42:00 p.m.
Yekaterinburg, Russia. GMT 05:00
This afternoon, I came over to my Teacher, Eugene Lobanov. He gave me some instructions about writing my new scientific article about verses libres. Apart from all that, we discussed things like, for example, the dying of people’s awareness about literature and history as well as moral lapse among young people. Also, Eugene Lobanov expressed his desire that I would share my ideas about writing free verse poetry during the seminar held by Lubov Ladeishchikova in January. “Ladeishchikova as well as Zakharova (the monitor of the Seminar – approx. ed.) will not object, I am sure” – he said.
Speaking about my new ideas about verses libres, Eugene Lobanov said, that each new idea was given a hostile reception at first. I involuntarily recalled my brainchild, the Universalism, which had been severely criticized and blamed, when it was first introduced in 2013 or in 2014, I think. I have never written about it here, but for now I will make a concise description of this new, actually not that new literary concept.
So, all literary works, both poetry and prose hitherto written in the world are separated on a national basis, we have English literature, French literature, Russian literature, Indian literature and so forth. All literature is therefore ethnic. The purpose of Universalism is to create an over-ethnic literature, which would be free from nationality and would therefore be universal. A creator (a poet or a prose writer) should reject their “nationality” or “ethnicity”; they should dedicate themselves to study other languages, cultures and traditions. They should accumulate this experience in their minds thus setting themselves free from “the burden of ethnicity”.
All in all, Universalism is a reaction to the economic, political, social and cultural process of GLOBALIZATION, which we observe in our modern world. The aforementioned information was published in “Most” (English: “Bridge”), #40, 2013, pp. 44 – 45.Of course, many proposition of this paper have been reconsidered since those days.
When I had told all of that to Eugene Lobanov he sort of brightened up, and I realized that he had partly accepted my ideas. He told me about the mentality of people, who live in the backwoods, in the province, who still wear “vyshyvanky” (embroidered shirts in the Ukraine) or who still believe the shamans (Altai). “All of this is dying away for now. This process cannot be stopped” – I said. Eugene Lobanov answered, “The problem is whether you will accelerate this process or you will try to hold it back even for some decades. If you are talking about Universalism, you should take into account all ethnic peculiarities of EACH nation” – he summarized. These words sort of inspired me, and I left his apartment with a revivifying spirit of life. Who knows, maybe, my forgotten “CHILD” will be in demand? I hope so, at all events.
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