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We have changed our environment so radically
What now in order to exist in it,
We must change ourselves."
Norbert Wiener.
Human and nature. This topic never loses its relevance. Many writers of the past centuries and the present have spoken about the problems of the relationship between man and nature. The words of Turgenev's Bazarov: "Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man is a worker in it" - were understood as a call for the subordination of nature by man. Soviet man it was suggested that we have many forests, fields and rivers. Is it so much - does this mean that natural resources should not be protected?
Fiction gives readers an idea that the value of nature is not limited to the richness of its resources. Nature is an organic part of the concept of "Motherland". Since in works of art it is important not only scientific facts and generalizations, but also those thoughts and feelings that arise in connection with this among the heroes and readers, this literature contributes to the education of a moral and ethical attitude towards nature.
Dear readers! We invite you to get acquainted with the recommendatory list of fiction, raising, in one way or another, issues of ecology, issues careful attitude to nature. Accurate and capacious art word will make you worry about the life of our smaller brothers, for the consequences of the insane reprisal against the environment, human environment. You will be able to compare your feelings of perception of nature with the feelings of the author.
The works of art that we recommend you to read are in the funds of the Central District Library. The works in the list are divided alphabetically into three sections:
1. classics of ecological prose
2. environmental prose in literary and art magazines
3. environmental prose in popular science journals
Small annotations are given to the works. The recommended list of literature will be useful to high school students and readers interested in books about nature. Many works known to you since childhood will sparkle with different colors during today's reading.
Happy and useful reading!
CLASSICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROSE
“You can control nature only by obeying it”
Francis Bacon
1. Aitmatov, Ch.T. White ship [Text] / Ch. T. Aitmatov: a story. - M.: Sov. writer, 1980. - 158 p.
In Aitmatov's early story "The White Steamboat", a fairy tale and a true story are whimsically intertwined, and just as legend and reality merge in this story, good and evil, the high eternal beauty of nature and vile human deeds collide in it. The legend of the Horned Mother, a deer who once nursed a tribe of the Kirghiz, is perceived by the boy as reality, and the reality turns into a fairy tale composed by him - a fairy tale about the White steamer. The boy's faith in the reality of the fairy tale is confirmed by the arrival of white deer to the forest cordon. The boy knows from the legend that people and deer are the children of the same mother - the Horned Deer, and therefore the hand of a person cannot rise on his younger brothers. But in reality, the same thing happens as in the legend: people kill deer. It is especially terrible that the kindest and wisest of all the people around the boy, grandfather Momun, kills the deer, who told him the legend of the Horned Mother Deer. The murder of the deer cut short the legend, it cut short the life of the boy, he threw himself into the river to turn into a fish and swim away from evil people forever...
2. Aitmatov, Ch.T. Stormy stop [Text] / Ch. T. Aitmatov: novels. - M.: Profizdat, 1989. - 605 p.
Novel "Stormy Station" carries a lot of thoughts, metaphors. We can conditionally distinguish two main ones: the first of them is about the historical and moral memory of man and mankind, the second is about the place of man, human personality, individuality in society, in the world, in nature.
The legend of the mankurt shepherd becomes the emotional and philosophical core of the novel. The fantastic line, connected with the confrontation between the Earth and an alien civilization, makes the hidden and obvious parallels of the novel complete and complete. Aitmatov writes that humanization is the key to the evolution of the world, its prosperity. Modern man sees quite clearly the tragic paradox: the human genius, to which enthusiastic panegyrics have been sung for so many years, has created a weapon of its own destruction. The slightest disagreement, the slightest malfunction in the control system - and the world will be destroyed. With nuclear test sites, probes that destroy the ozone layer, a person kills nature, like a mankurt - his mother.
3. Astafiev, V.P. King fish [Text]: [narration in stories] / V.P. Astafiev. - M. : Eksmo, 2005. - 509 p. - (Russian classics of the twentieth century).
The story "Tsar-fish" does not speak directly about the new norms of "ecological behavior", but in the dispute between the modern "natural" man Akim and the cynical representative of "civilization" Goga Gertsev, like in a drop of water, the clash of the blind, consumer and humane is reflected, human relationship to nature and acquires special persuasiveness, since the place of collision is not abstract reflections, but living human souls. The book shows the "pagan" original freshness of the sense of nature. The duel of the "king of nature" with the king-fish ended in the defeat of man. Fish is perceived by Astafiev as a creature almost akin to man, clinging to him in pain, causing all the more remorse for the evil that man brings to nature. In "King - fish" the fisherman suddenly finds himself in a position where punishment comes for killing fish, and not just fish, but the feminine principle of nature and life itself embodied in it.
4. Vasiliev, B.L. Do not shoot white swans [Text] /: novel / B. L. Vasiliev; [art. A.A. Ushin]. - L.: Lenizdat, 1981. - 167, p. : ill. - (School library).
Yegor Polushkin lived in the village, fellow villagers and his wife called him the poor. Everything that he did not undertake, any work or business, ended in a misunderstanding. Endowed with the talent of a true artist, with his own outlook on life, Yegor was completely different from his fellow villagers, practical and reasonable. After a long search, he finally finds his calling - the job of a forester. Egor's only friends are white swans, whom he takes care of with special tenderness. But one day his happiness ends - poachers come to the forest ...
5. Darrell, J. Overloaded Ark [Text] / Darrell Gerald; per. from English. THEM. Livshina. - M. : Polygran, 1992. - 159 p.
Together with the famous English zoologist and writer Gerald Durrell, you will make an exciting excursion to West Africa. On the road, dizzying adventures await you in the rainforest and interesting meetings with its exotic inhabitants. You will admire the bizarre dance of a chameleon, `fight` an aggressive monitor lizard, laugh at the superstitions of the locals...
6. Curwood, J.O. Grizzly; Kazan; Rogues of the North; In the wilds of the North [Text] / J. O. Kervud: [stories, novel: trans. from English]. - M. : Pravda, 1988. - 640 p.
The action of the story "Grizzly" takes place in the Canadian North. There, in harsh and hard-to-reach places, a giant bear and a small bear cub met, who lost his mother and was forced to take care of himself. Fate brings together an orphaned baby and a huge wounded bear. Exciting adventures await them, full of unexpected discoveries and dangers lurking at every turn.
Kazan - amazing story, named after the main character ... If there are creatures in the world created so that we do not forget what fear is, then the wolf is one of them. An insatiable, merciless predator - that's what a wolf is ... And what happens if a wolf is half a dog? But who is Kazan: a dog or a wolf? devoted friend Or a fierce enemy?
"Vagabonds of the North"
- a story about the friendship of a bear cub and a puppy, who, by the will of fate, find themselves in harsh world wild and capricious nature. Animals are destined to go through a long and hard way. The book, like a bright oriental carpet, is dotted with pictures from everyday life in the forest.
7. Leonov L. M. Russian forest [Text]: novel // Collected works: in 9 volumes / L. M. Leonov; [note E. Starikova]. - M.: Artist. lit., 1962. - T. 9. - 823 p.
In the novel "Russian Forest" Leonid Leonov, with patriotic passion, set before public opinion the problem of a reasonable and careful attitude to forest resources, their preservation for posterity. The forest in the book is something more than just something from which houses are built, what is painted on a picture, where strawberries are harvested and what forestry specialists argue about. Leonov's forest is a radiant and powerful "temple of life", a dream of happy and clean people in the beautiful sunny land of happy times. The forest, at the same time, is the basis from which the general philosophical and moral idea of eternal novelty, the renewability of life develops. Professor Vikhrov is the first "ecological" hero of our literature. For him, the forest is not just a stock of timber, but something more significant. This is a chronicle of folk heroism from the times Kievan Rus to the Great Patriotic War, this is the continuity and future of generations, this is Russian life itself. Professor Gratsiansky opposes Vikhrov, who, playing with the advanced ideas of the century, reproaches Vikhrov for wanting to “orphan the pits of five-year plans” and extremistly declares: “We will cut down everything when the time comes, we will not spare either the Volga or the Mezen so dear to you, we will mow to hell with the Pechora and the Kama, the Dnieper and the Dvina, the Angara and the Yenisei, and ... what else are you hiding under the coat? In 1957, Leonid Leonov became the first laureate of the reinstated Lenin Prize for his novel The Russian Forest.
8. London, D. White Fang[Text] /D. London: stories: [trans. from English] / D. London. - M.: AST, 2001. - S. 5-180. - (Adventure Library).
White Fang's father is a wolf, and his mother, Kichi, is half wolf and half dog. He doesn't have a name yet. He was born in the North Wilderness and was the only survivor of the entire brood. One day, a wolf cub stumbles upon creatures unfamiliar to him - people. Evil person makes a wolf a real professional fighter for dog fights. The dog is rescued by a young man, a visiting engineer from the mines, Weedon Scott. White Fang soon comes to his senses and demonstrates his anger and rage to the new owner. But Scott has the patience to tame the dog with a caress, and it awakens in White Fang all those feelings that were dormant and already half-deaf in him.
9. Paustovsky, K.G. The Tale of the Forests [Text] / K. G. Paustovsky: story: [art. S. Bordyug]. - M.: Det. lit., 1983. - 173 p. : ill. - (School library).
"The Tale of the Forests" most clearly expresses the peculiarity of Paustovsky's work. The writer takes some real case or a real person and, by his own admission, surrounds them with a "weak radiance of fiction", thereby achieving the possibility of a full disclosure of the human character and the nature of the events taking place. In The Tale of the Forests, Paustovsky makes extensive use of this method. So in the chapter "Squeaky floorboards" about P.I. Tchaikovsky has authentic biographical material. But the main task of the writer was to convey with full force Tchaikovsky's attitude to forests as a creative laboratory, as those natural phenomena that teach a person to understand beauty. A distant prototype of the writer Leontiev in the story is the writer I.N. Sokolov-Mikitov is a forest man, a hunter and a wonderful connoisseur and singer of our Russian nature.
10. Prishvin, M.M. My country [Text] / M.M. Prishvin; [last P. Vykhodtseva; artistic V. Losin]. - M.: Sovremennik, 1973. - 443 p. : ill. - (Classical library "Contemporary").
The collection contains works by M.M. Prishvin "The Seasons", "Pantry of the Sun", "King of Nature". They are united by their love for native land, the desire to awaken in readers the desire to understand the beauty of nature, to be able to discern it in the ordinary, outwardly inconspicuous. Endowing animals and plants with the qualities inherent in man, inspiring them, the writer thereby brings them closer to man, affirming the unity of man and nature.
11. Rasputin V. Farewell to Matera [Text] / V. Rasputin: a story // Stories. Stories: in 2 volumes. - M .: Bustard, 2006. - T. 2. - S. 5-184. – (Library of Russian Classical Fiction)
In the story in question about the flooding of the inhabited island with the village of Matera before the launch of a large power plant on the Angara. Last days and the nights of Matera - the destruction of the cemetery, the burning of the deserted huts - for Daria and other old women it is the same as the "end of the world", the end of everything. Mourning their huts, their native graves, their island, these old women, and with them the writer, say goodbye to the old Russian village, disappearing in the waters of time.
12. Rasputin V. Fire [Text] / V. Rasputin: a story // Stories. Stories: in 2 volumes / V. Rasputin. - M. : Bustard: Veche, 2006. - T. 1. - S. 292-347. - (Library domestic classics)
V. Rasputin solves the problem of the relationship between man and nature in his own way in the story "Fire". Fire, one of the mighty and indomitable natural elements, acts as an instrument of nature's retribution for the negligent consumer attitude towards oneself in the story.
13. Seton-Thompson, E. My life; Hero Animals; The fate of the persecuted; My wild friends [Text]: / E. Seton-Thompson [novels, stories]; per. from English. N. Chukovsky and A. Makarova; foreword V. Peskov; rice. ed. - M. : Thought, 1989. - 373 p. : ill. - (Zebra).
Seton-Thompson's books "My Wild Friends", "The Fate of the Persecuted" combine the adventure story and the lessons of natural history. Scientific accuracy in the books of Seton-Thompson is combined with an entertaining presentation. Seton-Thompson not only talks about the life of animals, their habits and characteristics, in each story he admires the strength, beauty, resourcefulness and nobility of his characters. He teaches his readers to love and understand wildlife, and therefore to protect it.
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Today, environmental issues are talked about everywhere: in the press, on television, on the Internet, at a bus stop, in the subway. But who was the first to say, who addressed this topic back in the 19th century, who noticed the beginning of this disastrous trend already when the circle environmental issues limited to unreasonable felling of the landowner's grove? As often happens, the first here were the "voices of the people" - the writers.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov "Uncle Vanya"
One of the main defenders of nature among the writers of the 19th century was Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. In the play "Uncle Vanya", written in 1896, the theme of ecology sounds quite distinct. Everyone, of course, remembers the charming Dr. Astrov. Chekhov put his attitude to nature into the mouth of this character: “You can heat stoves with peat and build sheds with stone. Well, I admit, cut down forests out of necessity, but why destroy them? Russian forests are cracking under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the dwellings of animals and birds are being devastated, rivers are shallowing and drying up, wonderful landscapes disappear irrevocably, and all because a lazy person does not have enough sense to bend down and pick up fuel from the ground.
IN Lately prefixes "eco-" and "bio-" are becoming more and more popular. And this is not surprising - against the backdrop of scientific technical progress our planet is being tortured. Recently, scientists made a discovery: it turns out that cows emit more greenhouse gases than all vehicles peace. Scientists recently made a startling discovery: it turns out that cows emit more greenhouse gases than all the vehicles in the world. It turns out that agriculture, the most "green" area of the economy, harms the environment the most?
It's amazing how Astrov, but in his face the advanced man XIX century, assesses the state of nature: “Here we are dealing with degeneration due to an overwhelming struggle for existence, this is degeneration from inertia, from ignorance, from a complete lack of self-consciousness, when a cold, hungry, sick person, in order to save the rest of his life, to save his children, instinctively , unconsciously grabs at everything that can satisfy hunger, keep warm, destroys everything, not thinking about tomorrow… Almost everything has already been destroyed, but nothing has been created yet.”
To Astrov, this state seems to be the limit, and he does not assume that fifty or a hundred years will pass and the Chernobyl disaster will break out, and the rivers will be polluted with industrial waste, and there will be almost no green "islands" in the cities!
Leonid Leonov "Russian Forest"
In 1957, the first winner of the revived Lenin Prize was the writer Leonid Leonov, presented to her for his novel The Russian Forest. "Russian Forest" is about the present and future of the country, which is perceived in close connection with the preservation of natural resources. Main character novel - Ivan Matveich Vikhrov, a forester by profession and vocation, says this about Russian nature: “Perhaps no forest fires have done so much damage to our forests as this seductive hypnosis of the former forested Russia. The true amount of Russian forests has always been measured with approximate accuracy..
Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matyora"
In 1976, the story of Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matyora" was published. This is a story about the life and death of the small village of Matera, on the Angara River. Building on the river Bratskaya HPP, and all "unnecessary" villages and islands must be flooded. The people of Matera cannot accept this. For them, the flooding of the village is their personal Apocalypse. Valentin Rasputin is from Irkutsk, and the Angara is his native river, and this only makes him speak louder and more decisively about it, and about how organically everything in nature is arranged from the very beginning, and how easy it is to destroy this harmony.
Victor Astafiev "Tsar-fish"
In the same 1976, another Siberian writer Viktor Astafiev's book "The Tsar-Fish" was published. Astafiev is generally close to the topic of human interaction with nature. He writes about how the barbaric attitude towards natural resources, such as poaching, disrupts the order of the world.
Astafiev in "Tsar Fish" with the help of simple images tells not only about the destruction of nature, but also about the fact that a person, “spiritually poaching” in relation to everything that surrounds him, begins to collapse personally. The fight with "nature" makes the protagonist of the novel, Ignatich, think about his life, about the sins he committed: “Ignatich let go of the side of the boat with his chin, looked at the fish, at its wide, insensible forehead, protecting the cartilage of the head with armor, the yellow and blue veins-bulls tangled between the cartilage, and illuminedly, in detail, he outlined what he had been defending from almost his whole life and about which he remembered immediately, as soon as he fell for the samolov, but he wringed out the obsession, defended himself with deliberate forgetfulness, but there was no strength to resist the final verdict.
Chingiz Aitmatov "Plaha"
Year 1987. In "Roman-gazeta" printed new novel Chingiz Aitmatov's "Blach", where the author reflected the modern relationship between nature and man with the true power of talent.
One day, a psychic lady I knew told me: “The world used to be full of magic, but at some point humanity stood at a crossroads - the world of magic or the world of machines. The machines have won. It seems to me that this is the wrong way and sooner or later we will have to pay for this choice.” Today, remembering this, I understand that it is worth replacing the word "magic" with the word "nature" that is more understandable to me - and everything that has been said will become the holy truth. Machines conquered nature and swallowed us, their creators. The problem is that we are alive. Bones and flesh. In order to survive, we must be attuned to the rhythm of the universe, and not to news releases or traffic jams.
The ecological component of the novel is conveyed through the description of the life of wolves and the confrontation between a wolf and a man. Aitmatov's wolf is not an animal, it is much more humane than a man himself.
The novel is imbued with a sense of responsibility for what is happening in the world, in the nature around us. It carries good principles and noble attitudes, calling for respect for nature, because it was not created for us: we are all just a part of it: “And how crowded it is for a person on the planet, how afraid he is that he won’t be accommodated, won’t feed himself, won’t get along with others like himself. And is it not the fact that prejudices, fear, hatred narrow the planet to the size of a stadium where all spectators are hostages, because both teams brought with them to win nuclear bombs, and the fans, no matter what, yelling: goal, goal, goal! And this is the planet. But even before each person there is an inescapable task - to be a person, today, tomorrow, always. This is what history is made of."
Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin "Environmental novel"
In 1993, Sergei Pavlovich Zalygin, writer, editor of the magazine " New world»times of perestroika, thanks to the efforts of which A.I. Solzhenitsyn, writes one of his last works, which he calls "The Ecological Novel". Creativity S.P. Zalygin is especially the fact that he does not have a person in the center, his literature is not anthropocentric, it is more natural.
The main theme of the novel is the Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl here is not only a global tragedy, but also a symbol of man's guilt before nature. Zalygin's novel is imbued with strong skepticism towards man, towards the thoughtless pursuit of the fetishes of technological progress. To realize oneself as a part of nature, not to destroy it and oneself - this is what the Ecological Novel calls for.
Tatyana Tolstaya "Kys"
The XXI century has come. The problem of ecology has already acquired a completely different shape than it was thought half a century or a century ago. In 2000, Tatyana Tolstaya wrote the dystopian novel "Kys", where all the themes developed earlier in Russian "natural" literature are, as it were, reduced to a common denominator.
Mankind has made mistakes more than once, finding itself on the very brink of disaster. A number of countries have nuclear weapon, the presence of which every minute threatens to turn into a tragedy if humanity is not aware of itself. In the novel "Kys" Tolstaya describes life after nuclear explosion, showing the tragedy of the ecological plan and the loss moral guidelines, which are very close for the author, as it should be for every person.
We invite you to get acquainted with the recommendatory list of fiction, raising, one way or another, environmental issues, issues of caring for nature. The list is primarily intended for readers over the age of 16, although some books are available for younger readers as well. And we suggest that children turn to the works of V. Bianchi, N. Sladkov, E. Charushin, D. Mamin-Sibiryak, M. Prishvin, K. Paustovsky, J. Darrell, A. M. Orlov, I. M. Pivovarova, in which also touches upon the relationship between man and nature.
The environmental situation in the world and in our country is causing growing concern, fierce controversy at scientific meetings, in government offices, and at meetings with the public. Problems of interaction between nature and society in recent decades concern not only scientists, but also writers. The works of art reflected people's ideas about the principles of interaction between man and nature, recreated pictures of the changing environment under the influence of various reasons.
Man is a child of nature, therefore, outside of nature and without nature, the existence of mankind is impossible. Man must always remember that he is the most perfect creation of nature and that nature has entrusted its future to him.
1. Adamson D. Born Free/ D. Adamson; per. from English. L. Zhdanova; ed. intro. Art. V. Erlikhman; ill.: N. Stroganova, M. Alekseev; region design I. Litsuk. - Moscow: Bertelsmann Media Moscow, 2015. - 159 p.: ill. - 12+
Joy Adamson's famous trilogy - "Born Free", "Living Free" and "Free Forever" - tells about the fate of the lioness Elsa, who came to the Adamson spouses as a small lion cub, and her offspring. Readers will learn a lot of interesting things about the nature of Kenya, about the amazing habits of the animals of the African continent.
2. Aitmatov Ch. T. Scaffold: a novel/ Ch. T. Aitmatov; formal. series by A. Kudryavtsev. - M.: AST; [B. m.]: Astrel; Vladimir: VKT, 2011. - 351 p. - (Children's classic). -12+
The novel touches on the most serious moral issues. The fate of the heroes is inextricably linked with the history of the wolf family, and everyone has their own scaffold - the naive Avdiy dies at the hands of drug dealers, Boston himself administers bloody justice, and Akbar's blue-eyed she-wolf, from whom people have taken the wolf cubs, steals a child in desperation...
3. Aleksievich S. A. Chernobyl prayer// Zinc boys; / S. A. Aleksievich. - Moscow: Eksmo-Press, 2001. - 447 p.-16+
The fourth book of the famous documentary series "Voices of Utopia" by Svetlana Aleksievich, laureate Nobel Prize Literature of 2015 "for many-voiced creativity - a monument to suffering and courage in our time." “Two catastrophes coincided: the space one - Chernobyl, and the social one - a huge socialist continent went under water. And this, the second crash, eclipsed the cosmic one, because it is closer and more understandable to us. What happened in Chernobyl is the first time on earth, and we are the first people who survived it.” "Chernobyl Prayer" is published in a new author's edition - the book has increased by a third due to restored fragments that were excluded from previous editions for censorship reasons.
4. Astafiev V.P. Tsar-fish: narration in stories/ V. P. Astafiev; region design V. Oblasov. - St. Petersburg: Lenizdat: Team A, 2014. - 511 p. - (Lenizdat-classic). - 6+
A moral-philosophical story about a person's responsibility for all life around him, about his difficult and painful desire for peace and harmony in nature and in his own soul.
5. Brin D. Red light/ /Science fiction. Renaissance: an anthology / trans. from English. V. Dvinina [and others]; per. biogr. Art V. Polishchuk; formal. A. Zolotukhina; ill. on the region M. Stavika. - St. Petersburg. : ABC Classics, 2007. - S. 209-214- (The best). -16+
A red beam was reflected on the ship's viewscreens from Earth, containing the message: "Shut down engines and prepare to meet." Who could it be? It turned out to be a ship of subminiature dimensions with an agent of the Corps of Rigorous Pragmatists on board. What does he need? The agent asks to abandon the use of stellar engines, as this violates the environment.
6. Bradbury R. D. And the thunder came// All Hallows' Eve: a story; Stories / R. D. Bradbury; per. from English. ; ed. foreword N. Karaev; formal. A. Saukova. - Moscow: Publishing house "E", 2016. - 638 p. - (Masterpieces of world classics) (Library of classical literature).-16+
"And thunder struck! .." How is the punishment? Deliverance? Sign? For nature, every moth, every blade of grass is important. Therefore, every action we take has a consequence. In the past, in today... For the future.
7. Butorin A. R. Metro 2033: North: fantasy novel
/ A. R. Butorin; ed. ideas of D. Glukhovsky; formal. region I. Yatskevich. - Moscow: Astrel: Polygraphizdat, 2012. - 312 p. - (Universe Metro 2033).
North is an amazing book unlike any other in the Metro Universe 2033 series. It doesn't even have a subway! Just like bunkers, bomb shelters, dungeons and stalkers. But there is an endless tundra, spruce forests broken by radiation and abandoned ghost towns made up of panel boxes. And the snow crust sparkling under the sun, and the northern lights in all the immeasurably deep sky there. And, of course, a fascinating, exciting story from the very first pages!
8. Vasiliev B. L. Do not shoot white swans: novel / B. L. Vasiliev; artistic A. A. Ushin. - L.: Lenizdat, 1981. - 168 p. - (School Library).-12+
The novel "Don't Shoot the White Swans" occupies a special place in the work of Boris Vasiliev. Whatever business Yegor Polushkin undertakes, everything ends in a misunderstanding. Both his wife and neighbors called him none other than the poor. But this unlucky man was endowed with the talent of a true artist and his own outlook on life, which greatly distinguished him from fellow villagers, practical and reasonable. But in the end, Yegor finds his calling, the thing that he does best - to love and take care of the beautiful. Having become a forester, he takes care of the family of white swans with special tenderness. But one day poachers come to the forest...
9. Weller M. B. Babylonskaya: novel / M. Weller; Designed by S.V. Shumilina. - St. Petersburg. : AST, 2006. - 334 p. -18+
A prophetic novel of the 20th century about Moscow's misadventures in environmental disasters.
10. Voznesenskaya Yu.N. Star Chernobyl: novel / Yu. N. Voznesenskaya; formal. series by E. Vishnyakova. - Moscow: Lepta Book: Veche: Grif, 2015. - 255 p. -16+
The piercing novel by the famous Orthodox writer Yulia Voznesenskaya "Chernobyl Star" tells about the fate of three sisters, whose lives were crossed out by the Chernobyl disaster, and about love, which conquers fear, death and gives hope for the future. The work is published in Russia for the first time. Written in the best traditions of realistic Russian literature, the novel also includes documentary material taken by the author from Soviet newspapers, radio messages and television programs Therefore, it is valuable not only as a work of art, but also as a historical evidence.
11. Vonnegut K. Cradle for a cat: novel / K. Vonnegut; per. from English. R. Wright-Kovaleva; design by E. Kuntysh. - M.: AST; [B. m.] : Astrel, 2011. - 222 p. -18+
A fantastic and at the same time frighteningly believable story about a dangerous invention of a talented scientist that brought the world to the brink of disaster.
12. Vorobyov L. I. Long life: stories / L. I. Vorobyov. - L.: Lenizdat, 1971. - 230 p. : ill. -12+
Vorobyov L. I. Earth law: stories / L. I. Vorobyov; artistic V. Komarov. - M. : Sovremennik, 1976. - 239 p. : ill. -12+
Vorobyov L. I. Unfinished haystack: stories and novels / L. I. Vorobyov. - M. : Sovremennik, 1985. - 477 p. : ill. -12+
Stories of a Novgorod writer about ordinary people and nature.
13. Giberson B. Life in the taiga: stories / B. Giberson; per. from English. L. L. Yakhnina; artistic G. K. Spirin. - M. : Ripol Classic, 2011. - 40 p. : tsv.ill. - (Masterpieces of book illustration). -8+
The book tells about life in the boreal forest, or taiga. This forest covers one third of the green cover of our planet. Preserving this forest is our common task.
14. Glukhovsky D. A. Metro 2033: fantasy novel / D. A. Glukhovsky. - M. : AST, 2013. - 384 p. : portrait - (Future Corp.)-16+
Twenty years after the Third World War, the last survivors are hiding in the stations and tunnels of the Moscow metro, the largest nuclear bomb shelter on Earth. The surface of the planet is contaminated and uninhabitable, and metro stations become the last refuge for humans. They turn into independent city-states that compete and war with each other. They are not ready to reconcile even in the face of a new terrible danger that threatens all people with final extermination. Artyom, a twenty-year-old guy from the VDNKh station, must go through the entire metro to save his only home - and all of humanity. Metro 2033 is a cult dystopian novel, one of the main Russian bestsellers of the 2000s. Translated to 37 foreign languages, interested in Hollywood, turned into atmospheric computer blockbusters, spawned an entire book universe and a real youth subculture worldwide.
15. Dick F. Do androids dream of electric sheep? : Fantastic novels / Philip Dick. - M. : Tsentrpoligraf, 1992. - 445 p. : ill. - (Osiris; issue 16). 16+
After nuclear war The earth has turned into a scorched, dying desert. Almost all animals have died out. Most people have long moved to other colonized planets solar system. Those who were forced to stay eke out a miserable, depressing existence in cities that are also falling into decay. One such person is Rick Descartes. professional hunter on androids. Rick is given the task of tracking down and destroying several runaway androids who illegally arrived on Earth. But during the hunt, he involuntarily has doubts. Rick wonders if it's humane to destroy androids?
16. Elinek E. Savagery: Oh! Wild nature! Watch out!: prose / E. Jelinek, I.S. Alekseev. - St. Petersburg. : Amphora, 2006. - 363 p. - (Read [fashionable]). -16+
It is not nature itself and its perfection that became the theme of this book, but those " business people"who destroy nature for their own benefit. It was against them that Jelinek directed all the wealth of her language, full of caustic, one might say, poisonous vultures. Perhaps this is an attack on a certain coalition that now exists between the so-called "protectors of the forests" and those who are in "He owns these forests of reality. This work is by no means a pretty artistic needlework, which does not add or subtract anything. In it, one goes into another and everything is connected with everything. It is the mechanism of human life."
17. Zalygin S. P. To the mainland: novel, story, stories / S. P. Zalygin; artistic A. Eliseev. - M. : Young Guard, 1985. - 495 p. : portrait - (Youth Library).
The book of the writer, laureate of the State Prize of the USSR, includes the novel "Paths of Altai", the story "Our Horses" and the stories "On big earth", "Flood Peak" and "Sledging Way". The novel is dedicated to researchers Gorny Altai- a wonderful land in the south Western Siberia endowed with a wide variety of natural resources. Two generations of scientists are compiling the "Map of Plant Resources" of Altai in the summer of 1960. And although the action of the novel is limited to a few months, we face the difficult fates and biographies of the heroes throughout almost their entire lives. Man and nature, man - the conqueror of nature - this is the main idea of the novel, full of sharp conflicts, scientific and philosophical disputes.
18. Kalugin A. Sowing the wind/ A. Kalugin - M.: Eksmo-Press, 1999.-23 p.-16+
Ecologist Zakladin is sent on a business trip to the planet Shtrak, famous for the production of the so-called shtrakovy oil. The entire economy of the planet rests on this, but recently the fields of plants from which this oil is produced have become in constant danger in the form of local fauna - scouts, they have been declared real war, but will it lead force method to victory?..
19. Kalugin A. Force majeure/A. Kalugin.-M: Eksmo, 2008. - 16+
If the glitches turn out to be not entirely glitches, and the nightmares take on full plausibility, it’s worth considering: maybe someone needs this? Maybe this "someone" is extremely interested in Peter Maksin becoming an obedient instrument of someone's evil will and fulfilling the "mission" without even knowing it? And if he suddenly suspects something was wrong, he balks, then it will not be long to liquidate him. It is unlikely that the reason for an international scandal will be the disappearance of an ordinary ecologist sent to backward Russia to save and educate stubborn Russians who do not want to join such a convenient single world information space. However, when the State Security takes over the task of saving the Motherland and a person, the scenarios of arsonists and saboteurs can be thrown into the trash, whether they are at least three times brilliant aliens or four times advanced guests from the future ...
20. Casta S. The Green Circle: A Novel/ S. Caste; per. from the Swedish M. Konobeeva; formal. A. Kolbina. - Moscow: Compass Guide, 2013. - 333 p. - (Generation www.). -12+
The climate on the planet has changed a lot. Downpours and floods are replaced by a terrible drought, but humanity still does not want to think about the future. To counter the general indifference, four teenagers from the Vogelbu art school organize secret society"Green circle".
21. Forest magician: stories about the nature of the Non-Black Earth Region/ comp., auth. intro. Art., ed. note V. Pelikhov. - M. : Sovremennik, 1988. - 431 p. - (Rural Library of the Non-Chernozem Region). -12+
22. Leonov L. M. Russian forest: novel / L. M. Leonov; ed. intro. Art. V. Kovalev. - M.: Fiction, 1988. - 704 p. - (Library Soviet novel). -16+
"Russian Forest" marked the beginning of a new ecological self-awareness, which largely determined the nationwide movement for the revival of the desecrated land, the Motherland, for the survival of mankind.
23. Loginov M. V. The key to the city of Antonovsk: story / M. V. Loginov; ill. A. Shevchenko; formal. series by A. Rybakov. - Moscow: Children's literature, 2015. - 234 p. - (Laureates of the 3rd International Competition named after Sergey Mikhalkov). - 12+
An environmental threat looms over the city, which adults are unable to resist. And then the children stand up to protect their native Antonovsk.
24. London D. Call of the Wild: story, stories / D. London; per. from English. M. Bogoslovskaya [and others]; formal. series by O. Gorbovskaya. - M. : Eksmo, 2012. - 190 p. : ill. - (Classics at school). -12+
In his stories, Jack London makes a comparison of man and nature. The writer shows what awaits us if we do not stop the merciless persecution of all living things. With a hidden subtext, London calls on a person to stop destroying nature. He does not utter big words, does not write beautiful phrases, but talks about what is now, and about what may be in a few years. At the time of London, the word "ecology" was still unknown, but the author had already described the consequences of human activity in such a way as if he could foresee several decades ahead.
25. Marinina A. B. Execution without malice: novel / A. B. Marinina; ill. on the region I. Khivrenko; dev. series by A. Saukov. - Moscow: Eksmo, 2015. - 478 p. - (A. Marinina. More than a detective).-16+
Anastasia Kamenskaya and her former colleague Yuri Korotkov arrived in the distant Siberian city of Verbitsk. Nastya's brother is going to build an expensive boarding house here, and asked them to find a suitable place.
However, the authorities of Verbitsk are not up to Moscow investors. In the midst of the election race, a wave of mysterious murders of environmentalists swept through the city. People blame officials for everything. Painfully zealously, the mayor and his friends defend the fur farm, lurking in a dense taiga forest...
26. Mitchell, David. Cloud Atlas
: novel / D. Mitchell; per. from English. G. Yaropolsky; comp. series: A. Guzman, A. Zhikarentsev; formal. series by S. Shikin. - M.: Eksmo; SPb. : Domino, 2012. - 702 p. - (Intellectual bestseller). -18+
Both the film, co-produced by Tom Tykwer and the Wachowskis, and the book by David Mitchell are trying to draw the attention of the masses to unreasonable human behavior. Although indirectly, this work also highlights certain environmental issues. The author gives arguments in such a way that the reader (and then the viewer) simply sometimes cannot understand whether the past is before him or the future.
27. Neuhaus N. Who sowed the wind/N. Neuhaus - M.: Eksmo, 2014.- 432 p.-16+
The conflict that arose in the community of the town of Taunus did not seem dangerous at first to the criminal police officers. The company "WindPro" was going to build a complex of wind turbines in a meadow next to the forest, and the local organization of environmentalists, led by the owner of the land, was strongly against it. The latter even refused a huge compensation for the meadow. But when the company's office was first broken into and its night watchman died, and then the leader of the "environmentalists" was killed, the K-2 police department took the matter seriously. Senior Commissioner Pia Kirchhoff immediately chose the main version of the confrontation between the company and the deceased environmentalist. But soon she had to make sure that the case is much more complicated and complicated than initially thought, and that the motives for the crimes go far beyond business, politics and ecology.
28.Patterson D. Last warning
/ D. Patterson - M.: book club"Family Leisure Club", 2013. -18+
Maximum Ryde and five of her friends, who have gained the ability to fly as a result of crazy experiments by scientists, help a group of environmentalists investigating global warming. But even in Antarctica, the realm of eternal cold, members of Max's pack will not be safe. After all, whoever controls their power will be able to control the whole world...
29. Paradise on earth: foreign prose on environmental topics: collection / R. Abernathy [and others]; per. from in. lang. ; comp. R. L. Rybkin; ed. foreword V. Andreev. - Moscow: Raduga, 1990. - 671 p. -16+
The collection includes works by more than 20 writers, united by a common theme - concern for the fate of nature and humanity in the face of serious environmental problems.
30. Rasputin V. G. Farewell to Matera: story / V. G. Rasputin; formal. series by O. Gorbovskaya. - Moscow: Eksmo, 2015. - 255 p. - (Classics at school).-16+
The name of Valentin Rasputin is widely known both in Russia and abroad - his books have been translated into many languages of the world.
His work reflects the most acute problem of the end of the 20th century: the destruction of nature and morality under the influence of civilization.
31. Riel Y. The Boy Who Wanted to Become a Man: fiction literature / J. Riel; per. from dates L. Gorlina; ill. P. Perevezentseva. - Moscow: Samokat, 2011. - 197 p. : ill. - (Reference point) -12+
The book is not about ecological disaster but rather about how to avoid it. That is, how to treat nature with care, how to learn to interact with it, how not to exterminate animals that have not done anything wrong to you. And most importantly - how not to take too much from nature!
32. Rubanov A. V. Chlorophilia: novel / A. Rubanov; computer. design by A. Ferez. - Moscow: Astrel: AST, 2010. - 314 p. -16+
Russia, XXII century. The entire population moved to the capital, and Siberia was leased to the Chinese. "No one owes anything to anyone" is the motto under which Russia-Moscow lives on Chinese money. And once, in two days, Moscow was overgrown with grass from a TV tower! Saveliy Hertz, special correspondent of the magazine "Most-Most", finds out - through secret channels: the Chinese are leaving Siberia! Catastrophe! What awaits the country in the future? One thing does not raise any doubts yet: the grass is harmless to humans ... But is it so?
33.Saimak K. City: fantasy novels/ K. Simak. - Baku: Olimp, 1993. - 414 p. - (Science Fiction Galaxy) -18+
Where will the development of civilization and the insane thirst for power over nature and their own kind lead a person? What will be the consequences of using the latest technologies and the creation of increasingly destructive weapons? And what if someday in the future the inhabitants of the Earth have to start all over again? Who will be responsible for the fate of the world? "The City" is a cult novel by the master of "humanitarian" science fiction Clifford Simak, which has won the International Science Fiction Award!
34. Saint-Exupery A. de. A little prince/ A. Saint-Exupery; per. from fr. N. A. Gal; rice. author. - Moscow: Eksmo, 2014. - 103 p. : tsv.ill. - (The most favorite books). -6+
This sad, wise, humane tale is intended more for adults than for children. It tells about the most important things: about friendship and love, about duty and fidelity, about the responsibility of a person for all living things ... Reading this wonderful story, you will smile, and you will feel sad, and you will certainly think about something that cannot always be understood by the mind ... How said the little prince - "you will see with your heart."
35. Senchin R. V. Flood zone: novel / R. V. Senchin; artistic S. Filippova; binding design I. Salnikova. - Moscow: AST: Edited by Elena Shubina, 2015. - 383 p. - (Prose of Roman Senchin). -16+
In Senchin's new novel "The Flood Zone" by the inhabitants of the ancient Siberian villages in a hurry they are relocated to the city - this place will be the Boguchanskaya hydroelectric power station. The author is not afraid of a parallel with "Farewell to Matera", a dedication to Valentin Rasputin opens the novel. The people of the "zone" - among them are hereditary peasants, and deported in Stalin's times, who found here small homeland- do not believe, protest, resign, rebel. Two worlds: sinking Atlantis folk life and the soulless machine of the new bureaucracy...
36.Sesbron J. Champs Elysees: stories / J. Sesbron; per. from French; comp. V. Kasparov; ed. foreword G. Kosikov. - Moscow: Izvestia, 1987. - 220 p. : ill. - (Library of the journal "Foreign Literature"). -16+
stories on environmental theme.
37. Strugatsky A. N. Roadside picnic: fantasy novel / A. N. Strugatsky, B. N. Strugatsky; design: G. V. Smirnova, V. N. Nenova. - Moscow: Astrel, 2013. - 190 p. - (Stalker).-16+
After an extraterrestrial invasion, the Earth was divided into zones. Along the Pilman radiant, there are territories dangerous to human life. But the more scientists explored the mysterious sites, the more questions remained unanswered.
A book about an endless problem moral choice, fantastic adventures and difficult destinies. The work was filmed in 1979 and became the basis for the popular computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.
38. Tolstaya T. N. Kys: novel / T. N. Tolstaya; design O. Pashchenko. - correct. and additional - Moscow: Eksmo, 2011. - 414 p. - 18+
The XXI century has come. The problem of ecology has already acquired a completely different shape than it was thought half a century or a century ago. In 2000, Tatyana Tolstaya wrote the dystopian novel "Kys", where all the themes developed earlier in Russian "natural" literature are, as it were, reduced to a common denominator.
Mankind has made mistakes more than once, finding itself on the very brink of disaster. A number of countries have nuclear weapons, the presence of which every minute threatens to turn into a tragedy if humanity does not realize itself. In the novel "Kys" Tolstaya describes life after a nuclear explosion, showing the tragedy of the ecological plan and the loss of moral guidelines, which are very close for the author, as it should be for every person.
39. Wyndham D. Day of the Triffids/ D. Wyndham. - M.: Publisher: AST, Neoclassic, 2016 - 290 p. -16+
“If the day begins with Sunday silence, and you know for sure that today is Wednesday, then something is wrong.” One evening, at times, the inhabitants of London watched with interest unusual phenomenon- green starry rain, illuminating the entire sky. The next morning, the witnesses of the mysterious phenomenon woke up blind, and it soon became clear that almost the entire population of the Earth had lost their sight. Big changes are coming to the world. Those few who managed to save their eyesight receive almost unlimited power and access to the resources accumulated by mankind. But trouble, as you know, does not come alone - and a third force comes into play: triffids, intelligent predatory plants that can move and hunt people. A complex security system designed to contain highly valuable but extremely dangerous plants malfunctions and the triffids break free...
40. Fombelle T. Toby Lolness: a novel in 2 books. / T. Fombel. - Moscow: Compass Guide, 2013 - 2015.
Book. 1: A hair's breadth from death/ T. de Fombel; per. from fr. E. L. Kozhevnikova; ill. F. Plaza. - 3rd ed., stereotype. - 2015. - 312 p.: ill.
Book. 2: Eliza's eyes/ T. de Fombel; per. from fr. E. L. Kozhevnikova; ill. F. Plaza. - 2nd ed., stereotype. - 2014. - 331 p.: ill.
The first of two books - "On the verge of death" - introduces the main character and fairy world in which the events of the novel unfold. Tiny boy Toby and his family live in a huge Tree. Toby's father, a scientist, created a machine that could turn tree sap into energy. He refuses to reveal the secret of his great invention, because he is sure that it can destroy the Tree and its people. The Lolness family is sent to prison. Only Toby manages to escape, but from that moment on, the boy's life hangs in the balance.
In the second book of the novel about the tiny tree world - Eliza's Eyes - the reader learns that the Tree, where Toby Lolness and his family live, is still in mortal danger. The villainous Leo Blue reigns at the Summit. Eliza is captured by the enemy, the people of the Grass Tribe are being hunted. Hiding from everyone, Toby fights evil, and he is not alone. This winter will decide the fate of the Tree. Will Toby be able to save the fragile world and his family? Will he be able to find Eliza?
41. Huxley O. Monkey and Essence// Counterpoint. Oh brave new world. Monkey and essence. Stories: Per. from English. / O. Huxley. - M.: NF "Pushkin library", LLC "Publishing house ACT", 2002. - 986, p. - (Golden fund of world classics).
Monkey and Essence (1948) is one of the most famous works Aldous Huxley along with Brave New World. A fantastic dystopia, a kind of warning of the writer about the coming nuclear catastrophe, which will wipe out almost everything from the face of the earth, and on the wreckage bygone civilization the survivors will try to build a new society. But this new society will not bring anything good: the total control of the Church over all people's lives, a ban on love, passion and, as a result, completely perverted relationships between people. And this new society will worship not God, but the Devil named Belial. The story "The Monkey and the Essence" is as relevant as ever. And who knows if Huxley's prophecies will actually come true in 100 years?
42. Harriot D. About all creatures - great and small: stories / D. Harriot; per. from English: I. G. Gurova, S. V. Strukova. - Reissue. - Moscow: Zakharov, 2015. - 493 p.: ill.-16+
Notes of a veterinarian practicing in the English provinces. 30-60 years of the last century. With love and humor, the author, a veterinarian by profession, talks about pets and their relationship with humans. In his book, he shares with readers his memories of episodes that occur in the practice of a veterinarian. Despite the seemingly rather prosaic plots, the doctor's attitude towards four-legged patients and their owners - sometimes warm and lyrical, sometimes sarcastic - is conveyed very subtly, with great humanity and humor. Love for one's profession, involvement in the suffering of sick animals, joy or sadness about their condition are conveyed so vividly that the reader feels like a direct participant in the ongoing events.
43. Chekhov A. P. Uncle Vanya// The Cherry Orchard
: plays / A.P. Chekhov; formal. E. Savchenko. - St. Petersburg. : ABC; [B. m.]: Azbuka-Atticus, 2013. - 317 p. - (World classics).
One of the main defenders of nature among the writers of the 19th century was Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. In the play "Uncle Vanya", written in 1896, the theme of ecology sounds quite distinct. Chekhov put his attitude to nature into the mouth of the protagonist Dr. Astrov: “You can heat stoves with peat, and build sheds of stone. Well, I admit, cut down forests out of necessity, but why destroy them? Russian forests are cracking under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the dwellings of animals and birds are being devastated, rivers are shallowing and drying up, wonderful landscapes disappear irrevocably, and all because a lazy person does not have enough sense to bend down and pick up fuel from the ground.
44. Atwood M. Year of the Flood: novel / M. Atwood; per. from English. T. Borovikova; formal. A. Starikova. - Moscow: Publishing house "E", 2016. - 507 p. - (Intellectual bestseller. Reads the whole world). -18+
"The Year of the Flood" is an ambitious panorama of a world that stood on the verge of a man-made catastrophe - and stepped over this line; world where the almighty rules the ball Genetic Engineering, and only gardeners in their garden are trying to preserve the diversity of wildlife; a world in which a furry girl has a direct road to night club The Scales is the go-to haunt of both the Settler tough guys and the Corporations' gated communities.
February 09, 2017
Today, environmental issues are talked about everywhere: in the press, on television, on the Internet, at a bus stop, in the subway. But who was the first to say, who addressed this topic back in the 19th century, who noticed the beginning of this disastrous trend already at a time when the range of environmental problems was limited to the unreasonable cutting down of the landowner's grove? As often happens, the first here were the "voices of the people" - the writers.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov "Uncle Vanya"
One of the main defenders of nature among the writers of the 19th century was Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. In the play "Uncle Vanya", written in 1896, the theme of ecology sounds quite distinct. Everyone, of course, remembers the charming Dr. Astrov. Chekhov put his attitude to nature into the mouth of this character:
“You can heat stoves with peat and build sheds with stone. Well, I admit, cut down forests out of necessity, but why destroy them? Russian forests are cracking under the axe, billions of trees are dying, the dwellings of animals and birds are being devastated, rivers are shallowing and drying up, wonderful landscapes disappear irrevocably, and all because a lazy person does not have enough sense to bend down and pick up fuel from the ground.
It's amazing how Astrov, but in his face advanced man XIX century assesses the state of nature: “Here we are dealing with degeneration due to an overwhelming struggle for existence, this is degeneration from inertia, from ignorance, from a complete lack of self-consciousness, when a cold, hungry, sick person, in order to save the rest of his life, to save his children, instinctively, unconsciously grabs at everything that can satisfy hunger, keep warm, destroys everything, not thinking about tomorrow ... Almost everything has already been destroyed, but nothing has yet been created in return.
To Astrov, this state seems to be the limit, and he does not assume that fifty or a hundred years will pass and the Chernobyl disaster will break out, and the rivers will be polluted with industrial waste, and there will be almost no green "islands" in the cities!
Leonid Leonov "Russian Forest"
In 1957, the first winner of the revived Lenin Prize was the writer Leonid Leonov, presented to her for his novel The Russian Forest. "Russian Forest" is about the present and future of the country, which is perceived in close connection with the preservation of natural resources. The protagonist of the novel, Ivan Matveich Vikhrov, a forester by profession and vocation, says this about Russian nature:
"Perhaps no forest fires have done so much damage to our forests as this seductive hypnosis of Russia's former forest cover. The true amount of Russian forests has always been measured with approximate accuracy."
Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matyora"
In 1976, the story of Valentin Rasputin "Farewell to Matyora" was published. This is a story about the life and death of the small village of Matera, on the Angara River. The Bratsk hydroelectric power station is being built on the river, and all "unnecessary" villages and islands must be flooded. The people of Matera cannot accept this. For them, the flooding of the village is their personal Apocalypse. Valentin Rasputin is from Irkutsk, and the Angara is his native river, and this only makes him speak louder and more decisively about it, and about how organically everything in nature is arranged from the very beginning, and how easy it is to destroy this harmony.
Victor Astafiev "Tsar-fish"
In the same 1976, another Siberian writer Viktor Astafiev's book "The Tsar-Fish" was published. Astafiev is generally close to the topic of human interaction with nature. He writes about how barbaric treatment of natural resources, such as poaching, disrupts the world order.
Astafiev in "Tsar Fish" with the help of simple images tells not only about the destruction of nature, but also about the fact that a person, "spiritually poaching" in relation to everything that surrounds him, begins to collapse personally.
The fight with "nature" makes the protagonist of the novel, Ignatich, think about his life, about the sins he committed:
“Ignatich let go of the side of the boat with his chin, looked at the fish, at its wide, insensible forehead, protecting the cartilage of the head with armor, the yellow and blue veins-bulls tangled between the cartilage, and illuminedly, in detail, he outlined what he had been defending from almost his whole life and about which he remembered immediately, as soon as he fell for the samolov, but he wringed out the obsession, defended himself with deliberate forgetfulness, but there was no strength to resist the final verdict.
Chingiz Aitmatov "Plakha"
Year 1987. A new novel by Chingiz Aitmatov, The Scaffold, was published in Roman-gazeta, where the author reflected the modern relationship between nature and man with the true power of talent.
The ecological component of the novel is conveyed through the description of the life of wolves and the confrontation between a wolf and a man. Aitmatov's wolf is not an animal, it is much more humane than a man himself.
The novel is imbued with a sense of responsibility for what is happening in the world, in the nature around us. He carries good principles and noble attitudes, calling to respect nature, because it is not created for us: we are all just a part of it: others like themselves. And is it not the fact that prejudice, fear, hatred narrow the planet to the size of a stadium in which all spectators are hostages, because both teams brought nuclear bombs with them to win, and the fans, no matter what, yell: goal, goal, goal! And this is the planet. But even before each person there is an inescapable task - to be a person, today, tomorrow, always. This is what history is made of."
Sergey Pavlovich Zalygin "Environmental novel"
In 1993, Sergei Pavlovich Zalygin, writer, editor of the Novy Mir magazine during perestroika, thanks to whose efforts A.I. Solzhenitsyn, writes one of his last works, which he calls "The Ecological Novel". Creativity S.P. Zalygin is especially the fact that he does not have a person in the center, his literature is not anthropocentric, it is more natural.
The main theme of the novel is the Chernobyl disaster. Chernobyl here is not only a global tragedy, but also a symbol of man's guilt before nature. Zalygin's novel is imbued with strong skepticism towards man, towards the thoughtless pursuit of the fetishes of technological progress. To realize oneself as a part of nature, not to destroy it and oneself - this is what the Ecological Novel calls for.
Tatyana Tolstaya "Kys"
The XXI century has come. The problem of ecology has already acquired a completely different shape than it was thought half a century or a century ago. In 2000, Tatyana Tolstaya wrote the dystopian novel "Kys", where all the themes developed earlier in Russian "natural" literature are, as it were, reduced to a common denominator.
Mankind has made mistakes more than once, finding itself on the very brink of disaster. A number of countries have nuclear weapons, the presence of which every minute threatens to turn into a tragedy if humanity does not realize itself. In the novel "Kys" Tolstaya describes life after a nuclear explosion, showing the tragedy of the ecological plan and the loss of moral guidelines, which are very close for the author, as it should be for every person.
Ecology in the works of modern writers
"It must not be allowed that people direct to their own destruction those forces of nature which they were able to open and conquer."
The modern writer V. Rasputin stated: "To speak today about ecology means to speak not about changing life, but about saving it." Unfortunately, the state of our ecology is very catastrophic. This is manifested in the depletion of flora and fauna. Further, the author says that "there is a gradual addiction to danger," that is, a person does not notice how serious the current situation is. Let us recall the problem connected with the Aral Sea. The bottom of the Aral was so bare that the coast from the seaports went tens of kilometers away. The climate has changed dramatically, the extinction of animals has occurred. All these troubles have greatly affected the lives of people living in the Aral Sea. Over the past two decades, the Aral Sea has lost half of its volume and more than a third of its area. The bare bottom of a huge area turned into a desert, which became known as Aralkum. In addition, the Aral contains millions of tons of poisonous salts. This problem cannot but excite people. In the eighties, expeditions were organized to solve the problems and causes of the death of the Aral Sea. Doctors, scientists, writers reflected and researched the materials of these expeditions.
V. Rasputin in the article "In the fate of nature - our fate" reflects on the relationship of man with environment. “Today there is no need to guess, “whose groan is heard over the great Russian river.” Then the Volga itself groans, dug up and down, constricted by hydroelectric dams,” the author writes. Looking at the Volga, you especially understand the price of our civilization, that is, the benefits that man has created for himself. It seems that everything that was possible has been defeated, even the future of mankind.
The problem of the relationship between a person and the environment is also raised by the modern writer Ch. Aitmatov in his work "The Block". He showed how a man with his own hands destroys colorful world nature.
The novel begins with a description of the life of a wolf pack, which lives quietly until the appearance of man. He literally demolishes and destroys everything in his path, not thinking about the surrounding nature. The reason for such cruelty was only the difficulties with the meat delivery plan. People mocked the saigas: "Fear reached such proportions that the she-wolf Akbara, deaf from the shots, thought that the whole world was deaf, and the sun itself was also rushing about and looking for salvation..." In this tragedy, Akbara's children die, but this is her grief does not end. Further, the author writes that people started a fire in which five more Akbara wolf cubs die. For the sake of their goals, people could "gut the globe like a pumpkin", not suspecting that nature would also take revenge on them sooner or later. A lonely she-wolf reaches out to people, wants to transfer her maternal love to a human child. It turned out to be a tragedy, but this time for the people. A man in a fit of fear and hatred for the incomprehensible behavior of a she-wolf shoots at her, but hits his own son.
This example speaks of the barbaric attitude of people to nature, to everything that surrounds us. I wish there were more caring and kind people in our lives.
Academician D. Likhachev wrote: "Humanity spends billions not only not to suffocate, not to perish, but also to preserve the nature around us." Of course, everyone is well aware of the healing power of nature. I think that a person should become both its owner, and its protector, and its smart transformer. Beloved leisurely river, birch grove, restless bird world... We will not harm them, but we will try to protect them.
In this century, man is actively invading the natural processes of the Earth's shells: extracting millions of tons of minerals, destroying thousands of hectares of forests, polluting the waters of seas and rivers, and emitting toxic substances into the atmosphere. Water pollution has become one of the most important environmental problems of the century. A sharp deterioration in the quality of water in rivers and lakes cannot and will not affect people's health, especially in areas with a dense population. The environmental consequences of accidents at nuclear power plants are sad. The echo of Chernobyl swept through the entire European part of Russia, and will affect people's health for a long time to come.
Thus, as a result of economic activity, a person causes great damage to nature, and at the same time to his health. How then can a person build his relationship with nature? Each person in his activity should carefully treat all life on Earth, not tear himself away from nature, not strive to rise above it, but remember that he is part of it.
