Dmitry Bak is a Russian literary critic, philologist, literary critic, journalist, translator, and teacher. Director of the State Museum of the History of Russian Literature IN AND. Dalia, who wholeheartedly supports the creation of a single, central Russian Museum of the History of Literature in Moscow.
Biography
Dmitry Petrovich Bak was born on June 24, 1961 in the city of Yelizovo in the Kamchatka Region.
Parents are military doctors. By type of activity, the family often moved. Long lived in Chernivtsi and Lviv.
From an early age, Andrei loved books and reading. I learned to write early. There were only medical books in the home library, but he also read them with pleasure. Moving from city to city, he first recorded in the library. He remembers everyone, especially the library in Chernivtsi. For many years she was his second native and mysterious house with stained glass instead of glass.
Homegrown Philosopher
Parents were surprised that Dmitry had a strange combination of two hobbies: reading and football. Craving for knowledge and innate literacy did not prevent him from being a good goalkeeper. He read books to holes, read one book several times. He liked to ponder what was going on in the book. In football, standing at the goal, there was a feeling that you could react and win in time.
But the real reading came later - in the 8th or 9th grade. Then there was a fashion not for lyrics, but for physicists. Priority fell on the mathematical and physical sciences. But Dmitry did not want to do either mathematics or physics, although he won many mathematical competitions. Interest in books did not disappear, but only increased. He began to buy books, read, kept and admired them. Currently, according to Dmitry Buck, his home library has about 25 thousand books.
The birth of literature in it took place in three stages:
v childhood - the desire for letter recognition and reading books about animals
v 17 years - the decision to enter the Faculty of Philology
v 19-20 years - the final understanding that literature is the most important thing in his life, that the ability to recognize the meanings of texts and teach others about it is his job.
Therefore, after graduating from the philological faculty, he began teaching and for more than 30 years he has been teaching young people how to read and comprehend texts.
Teaching
In 1983, D. Buck graduated from the philological faculty of Chernivtsi State University. Received a diploma in philology, later a teacher. Since then, Dmitry Bak has been teaching to read texts correctly, instilling a love of reading, helping students to love the history of literature, respect a book and extract knowledge from any text.
D. Buck taught in many cities of Ukraine, Berlin, Krakow. Since 1991 he has been working with students of the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow. Communicating with the younger generation for several decades, he saw how deep the problem of reading was.
In interviews they often ask the question: "Does the current clip generation read at all?" He sadly replies that they read, but not much, because large texts and modern consciousness are incompatible things. Many young people not only do not want to read, but also cannot. J. Habermas is right - a philosopher who as early as the middle of the 20th century said that the biological species of man is changing. Now, at the beginning of the 21st century, this observation is confirmed. Missing writing and paper reading skills. The ability to write is the finest muscle motility that develops the mind and thinking. Digital technology will kill everyone. The book as a fact of widespread mass culture survives the last decades. In one or two generations, little will be known about the book. She will be as alive for us as papyrus and cuneiform writing. The book will not die, but for a person it will become something distant and not as desirable as it was in previous centuries.
Soul pain
Since 2013, Dmitry Bak - Director of the State Literary Museum. He, along with other directors of past years, defends the idea of the initiator - Vladimir Dmitrievich Bonch-Bruevich.
The modern idea of D. Buck is to achieve maximum openness and accessibility of museum values. He sees the literary museum in the form of a megacomplex with many floors and halls.
Such a central building will allow to place and show the maximum number of archival and stock values. Now, a large number of exhibits are simply dead weight in various collections and archives. There are unique manuscripts, rare audio recordings with live voices of poets, wax discs of the Edison era, church books, incunabula - the first printed books published before 1500. There are items that have never been exhibited, since there is no territorial opportunity to show them in all its glory.
D. Buck often talks about the problematic creation of such a centralized literary museum. The difficulty lies in the fact that it is difficult to present literary treasures to the visitor. After all, literature is not painting, where visuality is important. In literature, verbality is important.
With great regret Dmitry talks about the death of the printed book for the next generations. But the digital era is already approaching and this is inevitable. He rejoices that he still had the good fortune to live with books. There was a period in his life when he literally slept in the library. He worked as a night watchman. For him, there is no supreme happiness when you can sit in the library for many hours. Dmitry is happy that he collected about 25 thousand books in his own library. He is very attached to books that decay with him, keep his notes. He will never part with them and will read them to the last.
Personal life
The wife of D. Buck is Elena Borisovna Borisova. She is a philologist. He teaches the Russian language. They have three children - two daughters and a son Dmitry - a journalist, the famous anchor of Channel One. He is known by the name of his mother - Borisov. He speaks several languages - French, English, German, Italian, Ukrainian and Lithuanian.
