The image of a librarian in domestic and foreign literature. The image of a librarian in fiction

if you stop pressing the pedals and moving forward,

you fall.

D. Schumacher.
I was educated in the library.

Moreover, it is completely free.

R. Bradbury.
The library profession is not what it is usually imagined to be; it is not for the weak at heart.

In fact, the lack of prestige, the common idea of ​​librarians as deeply withdrawn, introverted, out-of-this-world individuals - professional associations of librarians have to put up with this and exist or fight not only in our country, but throughout the world. The specifics of library work, both in ancient times and in our days, remain a mystery to most.
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It is interesting that it is absolutely impossible to define all the variety of activities of a librarian using one single verb, while a doctor treats, a teacher teaches, a cook prepares food, etc.

The word “librarian” is often absent from encyclopedic dictionaries. The word “library” exists, but the word “librarian” does not. The interpretation of the word that denotes our profession often sounds like this: a librarian is a library worker whose responsibilities include processing books received by the library, storing them and issuing them to the reader.

In French encyclopedic dictionary Larousse 1980 edition has this definition: librarian - a person entrusted with the management or supervision of a library.

I decided to settle on the following definition, which I liked more than others for its versatility.

A librarian is a library employee who performs an operation or set of operations to form a library collection, serve users, create and use material and technical resources, manage personnel and the library as a whole.
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One of the many tasks of a modern librarian is to create conditions and organize the library’s information environment so that, with the greatest savings in the user’s mental energy and time, information is internalized (that is, deeply assimilated) by him.
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The library profession is one of the most interesting and exciting in the sense that every day brings acquaintance with new books, latest numbers newspapers and magazines, new people, different unique situations arise every day.

On its Facebook page Russian state library opened an interesting section “Historical Complaint”. The most outstanding notes received in the library's complaint book are published here.

Here are some of them:
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“We kindly ask you to double or triple the number of consulting librarians at work stations in the evening hours, especially in the catalog room. Demchenko I.V. May 5, 1936 ".
“When asked where readers could drink water with syrup, the librarian answered: “nowhere.” To me, a Soviet person, this attitude is incomprehensible. There is sometimes a samovar next to the wardrobe, but only as a mockery, because there is no glass with it! Isn’t there something we can do to fill this gap?”- a certain N.V. Chernykh was indignant on July 12, 1937.
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"I believe that cultured person should not watch others read, even if this person is a library employee! You still need to trust people and understand the peculiarities of their mood! And employee Rosenthal brazenly continued to remain within reading room and sometimes cast sidelong, suspicious glances in my direction until I left there myself. I think that all this was done on her part rudely, shamefully and tactlessly,”- an unknown reader is indignant in a book of complaints on June 21, 1937.
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We work for our reader, no matter who he is. The professional feature of a librarian should be high pedagogical skills. First of all, you need to love people, differentiatedly approach different categories of readers, taking into account the characteristics of their information requests, help navigate the reference and bibliographic apparatus, explaining clearly and patiently. In addition to erudition, we must be sensitive and responsive, always consistently polite and attentive.

Contact with the reader must be confidential. After all, a positive attitude towards a specialist arises not only and not so much because he is well versed in the fund, but also because of his friendliness, ability to have a relaxed and exciting conversation, and willingness to help in choosing books. A real librarian is characterized by empathy and empathy for another person.

Communication with the reader is an exchange of information. Do you remember that 40% of information is absorbed thanks to the intonation of speech, that in addition to the text, there is subtext? Unfortunately, the “discovery” of these truths sometimes occurs in conflict situations.
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For librarians who are in constant contact with readers, the ability to communicate in a businesslike manner becomes a professionally necessary quality, therefore increased demands are placed on the librarian’s speech. Of particular importance is the frequency and clarity of pronunciation, coherence, logic, richness of vocabulary, clarity in posing questions and answers, and optimal speech speed for perception.

Personal charm and good looks are also essential for a librarian. A good one psychological climate The library is inspired by the cheerfulness and sense of humor of its staff.
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Today, the librarian profession is viewed in a broad social context. In our current, very stressful life, people come to the library not only for books, but also for the sake of communication, to gain mental comfort and balance.

In the conditions of global informatization, everything changes: interiors, funds, material and technical base, and library equipment change. But are librarians themselves ready for change?..

I haven't been working in the library for very long. But having studied this problem, I became interested in why the domestic librarian still appears in the eyes of others in the image of a gray mouse, why he does not look the best in the best possible way?

The nature of the image of a librarian in fiction and cinema appears to be a reflection of society’s attitude towards them (that is, towards us, dear colleagues).
In domestic cinema and literature, the following can be distinguished: characteristic images librarians:
1. Ascetic or saint. This is the type of righteous librarian who thinks only about the well-being of the library in which he works. Such librarians see their life's purpose and happiness in preserving books for future generations. They help people free of charge and selflessly, providing them with knowledge and information.

2. An idealist who dreams of introducing all readers to the “reasonable, good, eternal.” This type of librarian dreams of re-educating their readers through serious, thought-provoking literature.

3. Rebel, revolutionary, disagrees with political system, views and orders existing in society. Unfortunately, very often such librarians view the library only as a forced and temporary refuge.

4. An honest and poor worker. The most common type of domestic librarian.
IN foreign literature and film images of librarians are somewhat brighter and more noticeable. However, writers and directors have often depicted and depict the library as a symbol of the collapse of life plans. (There is nowhere to go any lower.) Such stereotypes persist until the 2000s.

Today at foreign art The image of the librarian has become much more interesting. You can “meet” our colleague in both science fiction and romance novels, and in action-packed films, detective stories, mysticism and even horror films...
I would like to present to your attention a selection of works by domestic and foreign writers and directors on this topic.
So, ABOUT THE CINEMA.

The film opens our selection

"Librarian" USA, 2004. Directed by Peter Winser.
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Having received an invitation for an interview at capital library, botany student Flynn Carsen did not even think that this work would become the meaning of his life. However, what his employers offered him was very different from the everyday work of a librarian, sorting through visitors' cards and arranging books on shelves. It turns out that the library may have a secret side hidden from the eyes of ordinary people...
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"Marriage of convenience". Russia, 2002. Director – Yu. Pavlov. Cast: N. Kurdyubova, E. Stychkin.

The provincial librarian was sure that marriages were made in heaven. But when she and her father were saddled with a huge debt, she decided to urgently find a rich husband who would settle all their financial problems. After numerous searches, the heroine realized that she could only rely on herself...
"Red rivers". France, 2000. Director: Mathieu Kassovitz.

Remy, hereditary The librarian of a prestigious college in the Alps does not appear directly in the film - he is brutally killed before the thriller begins. However, it turns out that it was the library employee who was involved in genetic experiments within the walls of the college... And the librarian fulfilled his role, seating readers in pairs, according to the scheme drawn up by the rector’s office...
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"Falling Leaves Blues" Russia, 2006. Director: Alexander Mikhailov. Cast: Evgenia Dobrovolskaya, Ilya Rutberg, Yulia Rutberg.

The young librarian Ksenia, who until recently was solving her numerous family and financial problems, one day becomes the owner of an inheritance - a huge apartment, a bank account and a new Mercedes, and with it many secrets and mysteries. Ksenia understands that in this life nothing happens for nothing...
"In love by choice." USSR, 1982 Director: Sergey Mikaelyan. Cast: Evgenia Glushenko, Oleg Yankovsky.

The heroine of the film is a young, sweet, educated, but outwardly unattractive librarian Vera with a problem personal life. By chance, she runs into former athlete Bragin on the subway. He gave up sports, his wife left him, he drank everything he had earned during his years of sports career and works at a factory as a turner, which does not make him happy at all. After talking, the heroes come to the conclusion that you can fall in love at will, with a person you just choose. And they decided to try out this theory, built on auto-training and self-hypnosis...
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“There lives such a guy.” USSR, 1964. Director: Vasily Shukshin. Cast: Leonid Kuravlev, Bella Akhmadulina, Lidiya Alexandrova.

The story is about a young Altai driver Pasha Kolokolnikov, who, risking his life, prevents a fire in a fuel tanker. A joker and joker, Pashka loves to show off. He likes Nastya, the local librarian, but the girl prefers him to a visiting engineer who does not consider her his equal.
"At a lake". USSR, 1970. Director Sergei Gerasimov. In ch. Cast: N. Belokhvostikova, V. Shukshin.

Librarian Lena Barmina is the main character of the film that thundered throughout the country more than 40 years ago. “By the Lake” is a film reflecting on a person’s responsibility to other people, native nature and the world around us. It's also a love story.

The best film according to a poll by the magazine “Soviet Screen” in 1971.
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"The gun is in Betty Lou's purse." USA, 1992. Directed by Allan Moyley. In ch. roles: Penelope Ann Miller.

The heroine of the American comedy detective Betty Lou Perkins works in a quiet provincial library. She adores her husband, a policeman, but he is too busy with his work and does not pay attention to her. One day Betty finds a real gun on the river bank, puts it in her purse, and then the incredible adventures.

This film shows the rebellion of library workers when, tired of their hopeless existence, monotonous work and general indifference, they take risky actions.
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"How do I get to the library?" Russia, 2011. Directed by E. Malkov. Cast: T. Bibich, T. Cherkasova.

The owner of a chain of nightclubs, Oleg Barinov, on his way to work stops at the district library to donate unnecessary books, of which he has accumulated a lot at home, and his upbringing does not allow him to throw them in the trash. In the library, he meets Alla, a nondescript, inconspicuous librarian girl who at first does not make the slightest impression on him...
"The Mummy" USA, 1999 Directed by Stephen Sommers. Cast: R. Weiss, B. Fraser.

Of course, I couldn't miss this movie, because its main character Evelyn says: “I'm proud of who I am... I'm a librarian!”

Evelyn is not only a librarian, she is also a historian, linguist, and she knows a very complex ancient language and dreams of reading the Book of the Dead. It is thanks to Evelyn’s knowledge that the film’s heroes defeat the mummy that has risen from the tomb.
Films are films, but our professional destiny (and for many it is inseparable from personal) is still contained in the book. The fate of a librarian is to look at a book and see his own reflection in it. This leaves a certain imprint and forms a special image, which is not always unambiguous.
So, next - THE IMAGE OF A LIBRARY IN LITERATURE
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Vasily Shukshin “Until the third roosters. A fairy tale about Ivan the Fool, how he went to distant lands to gain his wits.”

This is a fairy tale parable. Here, the revived literary characters call the librarian “vulgarite.” Content telephone conversation, which is led by the heroine, does not attract fans to her, but quite the opposite, makes the image of a female librarian primitive and vulgar.

Liliya Belyaeva “Seven years don’t count”

The librarian in the book is an honest and poor worker. Main character leaves for seven years to earn money on Sakhalin. During this time, his wife Larisa turns into a typical (according to the author) librarian with a bun of hair at the back of her head and in a shapeless sweater: “Alone... in the morning, in the afternoon, in the evening... At home, in the library. Books, shelves, books..." The story also describes other librarians. This is a principled manager reading room, as well as two of Larisa’s friends, for whom seeing the world of wealthy people is like “flying to Mars.”
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Alexander Volodin “Idealist”

The author does not even mention her name. She is a librarian by profession and an idealist in life. She believes with all her might in pure and bright love for life, although she knows that many easily get together for just a week. Love stories are mixed in her head - Ophelia, Agafya Tikhonovna, Poor Lisa, Anna Karenina and even Dulcinea Toboso. And neither age nor life's adversities will ever change her romantic perception of the world. Because, as the play says, “it’s a shame to be unhappy.”
N.K. Gorbunov "Report"

The “holiness” of the librarian leads to tragicomic situations. Thus, in the story, the librarian is sincerely happy for the professor, who shamelessly uses rare materials in her speech that she has collected bit by bit over time.
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Ilya Ehrenburg. "Second day".

Looking at the heroine of this novel, librarian Natalya Petrovna Gorbacheva, “people thought that she looked like a book bug and that in her head there were only catalog numbers. To others she seemed like a big ugly letter... Natalya Petrovna Gorbacheva did not save her life, her property, or the revolution. She saved books. She was lonely, middle-aged and ugly. No one even knew her name - they said: librarian. They didn’t know Natalya Petrovna... She came up to them and plaintively whispered: “Comrades, please be careful!” She suffered because none of these people felt the love for books that filled her heart. Sobbing awkwardly, Natalya Petrovna said: “Books are a big thing! ...they cannot be burned, they must be stored..."
Larry Beinhart "The Librarian, or How to Steal the President's Chair"

University librarian David Goldberg works for an eccentric elderly billionaire whose last wish is to leave a memorial library about himself and his achievements for posterity. However, the most memorable thing in his activity, as Goldberg accidentally discovers, is the secret big politics, which should never come out. This is a conspiracy to falsify presidential elections! A real hunt begins for the main character, a librarian who systematizes archival information.
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Roman Senchin "Yeltyshevs"

Valentina Viktorovna, the mother of a family that is steadily heading towards complete destruction - a librarian, an elderly woman, tired and heavy. We will never see her with a book: such a familiar way to lose yourself in hopeless everyday life does not occur to either the author or the heroine. We will not discern in her a single glimmer of bookish (in the sense of high) principles and values. From time to time she remembers who wrote such and such a book that she once gave out. Not remembering, he quickly calms down.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn " Cancer building»

One of the characters is a certain Alexey Filippovich Shulubin - in his youth a military commander, later a “red professor” - a philosophy teacher. He escaped Stalin's camps, but in freedom he went through all the stages of intimidation and humiliation. In the action of the novel, Shulubin is a librarian. The profession of a librarian in the novel turned out to be the extreme limit to which a person could be humiliated, making him unhappy and completely broken.
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya “Sonechka”

Lyudmila Ulitskaya wrote a bright, amazing image of the librarian Sonechka: “For twenty years, from seven to twenty-seven, Sonechka read almost without a break. She fell into reading as if in a faint, ending with the last page of the book.... She had an extraordinary reading talent, and perhaps a kind of genius. Her responsiveness to the printed word was so great that fictional characters stood on a par with living, close people...”.

The story “Sonechka” was once published in one of our professional publications. The author of the article wrote: “Sonechka” is the anthem of our profession, an anthem in prose that must be read while standing. “Sonechka” is our honor and glory, ... our main and favorite thought about the librarian.”

My opinion about the character main character disagrees with the opinion of the author of this article, and I think that not every one of us will see in Sonechka a role model both professionally and personally.
Vera Kalashnikova “Nostalgia”

The action in the story takes place in our days. Her heroine Polina, a librarian by profession, “speaks English and French... she has collected great material for your dissertation; you just need to rummage a little in the German archives... She is smart, determined modern woman(a type of new Russian librarian), very well read.

She is horrified by the surrounding lack of spirituality, drug addiction, and prostitution. Disappointed with the domestic reality, Polina leaves for Germany to join her fiancé. However, even there she does not find peace... The story is unusual and attracts attention because in it, in one of the first in Russian modern literature, a simple librarian is equal to academicians, endowed great intellectual potential.
And it is on this high note that I would like to end. Of course, there are other images and many other characters. The regulations of our event do not allow us to demonstrate all examples of the image of a librarian that can be found in fiction and cinema (it is pleasantly surprising that there are many of them).

Strange as it may seem, sociological research shows that in gambling There are two types of people who play most often. Most of them have very quiet professions (for example, librarians), while the rest are engaged in professional activities associated with high risk (police officers, rescuers). The first ones do this due to a lack of thrills in Everyday life, and emotions, meanwhile, are rushing out; and for the second, the tendency to take risks turns into a habit.

I do not encourage you to gamble, but I would like to wish you to bring this passion, the fire in your soul, into our professional activities; maintaining traditions, constantly wanting something new. And then, in the near future, completely different images of Russian librarians will appear in cinema and literature.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

1st year students of the specialty “Library Science” of the correspondence department of TOKKI had a discussion on the topic “The image of the librarian and the library in fiction” (the discipline “Ethics and psychology of professional activity”).

The focus was on very interesting and contradictory images librarians of Russian and foreign fiction.

For analysis, students took the following works domestic authors, Soviet and post-Soviet times: Babel I.E. “Public Library” (Zolotykh K.S.), Likhanov A.A. “Children’s Library” (Samorukova E.S.), Georgievskaya S.M. “Silver Word” (Berestova V.P.), Elizarov M.Yu. “Librarian” (Petina Yu.N.), Ulitskaya L.E. “Sonechka” (Podshchekoldina I.V.).

The works of foreign authors, characterized by students: Myron, W. Dewey, were distinguished by their genre diversity. “The cat from the library that shocked the whole world” (E.S. Golodok), Bell Logan “The Librarian” (A.S. Kotukhova), Terry Pratchett “Staff and Hat” (Zh.E. Tatarnikova) Larry Beinhart. “The Librarian, or How to Steal the Presidential Chair” (Pechnikova O.V.), Ion Colfer “The Very Scary Miss Murphy” (Kotova A.D.) Here is both a political detective story and women's novel, and children's fantasy. Some of the authors give a specific description of the heroine - a librarian, others open inner world librarian through action, often on an abstract topic.

Fiction analyzes library stereotypes in detail and accurately, allowing an ignorant person to imagine the place and role of the library profession in society.

Very often the image of a librarian does not correspond to our idea of ​​ourselves. As examples from fiction show, a librarian is a very inadequate person in the eyes of writers, journalists, that is, those who voice and at the same time predetermine public opinion.

Nevertheless, you need to read fiction about people in your profession: all psychological types and situations are described and analyzed here. And we cannot talk about the development of our professional consciousness until we know enough about ourselves.

Matveev, M.Yu. Philosophical ideas 20th century and their influence on the image of libraries // Bibliotekovedenie.- 2008.- No. 1.- P.114-119.

Impact of foreign philosophical movements XX century (positivism, Freudianism and postmodernism) on the public perception of libraries and the formation of librarian stereotypes.

“...one of the most common stereotypes is that the library is perceived as a bastion of order and discipline, which is in conflict with the much more chaotic outside world.”

“If we look at the stereotypes of library workers precisely through the triad of fear-knowledge-power, we will find that they are not so much threatening as they are comical - in this way writers and journalists simply “mask” their fear of the knowledge contained in the library.”

Matveev, M.Yu. The power of stereotypes or diversity of approaches? : the image of the library in art. lit. // Library Science.- 2003.- No. 2.- P.66-72.

“...the portrayal of libraries in fiction can be seen as an interesting addition to library sociology.”

“...fiction quite often describes the reasons why a library becomes attractive or, conversely, repels talented people.”

Loginova, N.V. Trap for the intellectual: images of librarians in the fatherland. artist lit. // Library Science. - 2007. - No. 1. - P. 118-123.

“...in the literature of the post-Stalin era, the image of the library profession constantly appears as a life trap for the intelligentsia.”

“We must nevertheless admit that the specifics of library work remain a mystery for authors (as well as for the public consciousness in general).”

"IN public consciousness the image of the “Poor but honest librarian” was established, which, presumably, is important for confirming the moral balance of society, for proving the thesis that “not by bread alone.”

Matveev, M.Yu. Book people in Russian literature of the twentieth century // Bibl. case.- 2003.- No. 10.- P.36-39; No. 11.- P.41-43; No. 12.- P.40-43; 2004.- No. 1.- P.40-43.

The image of the library and the librarian in Russian fiction of the twentieth century.

“Librarians in Russian fiction are often described as the main characters (and positive heroes), but the library profession itself is seen as a worthy life choice rarely appears."

“With all the abundance of stereotypes and unattractive descriptions, fiction is very interesting source information, since the view of a writer is always different from that of a practicing librarian and a librarian-theorist. This difference allows us to more accurately imagine the place and role of the library profession in society.”

Matveev, M.Yu. This eternal stereotype: libraries and librarians go abroad. lit. XX century // Bible. case.- 2004.- No. 5.- P.39-41; No. 6.- P.38-41; No. 8.- P.39-41; No. 9.-P.39-41.

The image of the library and librarian in foreign literature of the twentieth century.

“Analysis of various genres of literature allows us to most accurately identify characteristic descriptions of libraries and library workers and determine how exactly librarians are “seen” as writers by the general public.”

“Library “stereotypes” are simplified, schematized, and often highly distorted ideas about the work of the library and the library profession that are present in fiction throughout the twentieth century.”

Zalomkina, G.V. The meaning of the library in E. Kostova’s novel “The Historian” // Bibliotekovedenie.- 2008.- No. 3.- P.119-124.

The image of the library is updated and deepened in the novel based on broad historical material in the context of the ideas of H.L. Borges and W. Eco. E. Kostova’s novel “The Historian” was published in the USA in 2005 and has been translated into more than 30 languages.

“The library in E. Kostova’s novel is an analogue of B. Stoker’s precious sarcophagus of Dracula; books are sacred, powerful land, without which a vampire is not viable. E. Kostova's Dracula values ​​his library very much. The phenomenon of the library unfolds in the novel into an all-significant and all-encompassing image.”

Matveev, M.Yu. Through the eyes of science fiction writers: do stereotypes penetrate the future? // Library.- 2007.- No. 4.- P.82-85.

The image of the library and librarian in works of domestic and foreign science fiction.

“In general, the images of libraries in science fiction are very diverse, but, according to our observations, in this genre pessimistic rather than optimistic assessments of their activities prevail.”

Matveev, M.Yu. And of course... a corpse: b-ki and librarians in a detective story. novels // Bibl. case.- 2003.- No. 9.- P.36-41.

The image of the library and librarian in domestic detective stories.

“The frequent use of the image of a library in detective stories leads to the formation of stable (“stereotypical”) ideas about what happens in it, and ideas that are far from flattering.”

“...librarians in detective stories are often not portrayed in the best way either.”

“But despite all the negative features of the image of a librarian, foreign researchers are inclined to conclude that in detective stories it is more positive than in “serious” literature...”

Domestic fiction

Antonov, S. P. Librarian: a story // Antonov, S. P. Stories. -Barnaul, 1953. - pp. 21-32.

Astafiev, V.P. King Fish: storytelling in stories. - Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk. ed.-ed. center "Grotesk", 1993. - 384 p.

Babel, I. E. Public Library // Works: In 2 volumes - Vol. 1. Stories 1913-1924; Odessa stories; Journalism; Letters; Application. - M., 1996. - P. 35-37.

Bagmut, I. A. Precious edition: a story // Bagmut, I. A. Piece of the pie: stories. - M, 1969. - P. 155-162.

Basmanova, E. Secret black pearl: novel. - St. Petersburg: Neva; M.: OL-MA-press, 2002.- 382 p.

Belyaeva, L.I. Seven years don’t count: a story. - M.: Sov. writer, 1978.- 326 p.

Volodin, A.M. Idealist: a play // Volodin, A.M. For theater and cinema. - M., 1967. - P. 140-148.

Galin, A.M. The Librarian: a play // Sovrem. dramaturgy.- 1989.- No. 3.- P.27-52.

Georgievskaya, S.M. Silver word // Georgievskaya, S.M. Silver word. Tarasik: stories. - M., 1973. - P.5-182.

Dombrovsky, Yu.O. Guardian of Antiquities: novel, short stories, essays. - M.: Izvestia, 1991. - 224 p.

Dontsova, D.A. Bouquet beautiful ladies: novel. - M.: EKSMO, 2002. - 379 p.

Zalygin, S.P. South American version: a novel. - M.: Sovremennik, 1974. - 415 p.

Kaverin, V.A. Scandalist or evenings on Vasilievsky Island: a novel. - 3rd ed. - L., 1931. - 212 p.

Kalinina, D.A. A mole will make an elephant: a novel. - M.: ZAO Publishing House Press, 1999. - 432 p. - (Series “Ironic Detective”).

Karelin, L.V. Microdistrict: novel. - M.: Sov. Russia, 1963.- 349 p.

Kulakovsky, A.N. Mint grows under the window: a story // Kulakovsky, A.N. Paths both traveled and untrodden. Mint grows under the window. - M., 1978. - P.280-421.

Likhanov, A. A. Children's library: stories. - M.: Sov. Russia, 1989. - 149, |2] p.: ill.

Marinina, A.B. Sixes die first: novels. - M.: EKSMO, 1996. - 483 p.

Muratov, I.L. Windows wide open: a story. - M.: Sov. writer, 1964.- 215 p.

Musatov, A.I. Ostrog Bible: a story // Musatov, A.I. A firm step: stories. - M., 1963. - P. 201-233.

Panasco, E.V. Troopers from the past: science fiction. story and stories. - Stavropol: Caucasus. b-ka, 1991.- 126 p.

Pravdin, L.N. The area of ​​personal happiness: a novel. - Perm: Book. publishing house, 1975.- 543 p.

Rasputin, V.G. Fire: stories. - M.: Sov. writer, 1990.- 236 p.

Semenov, T.V. Street lights: story // Semenov, T.V. Blue smoke. - M., 1979. - P. 5-272.

Solzhenitsyn, A. A village does not stand without a righteous man. Cancer building. Stories.- M.: Book. Chamber, 1990.- 573 p.

Strekhnin, Yu.F. There are women in Russian villages: a story. - M.: Sov. Russia, 1970.- 174 p.

Chernookov, M. V. Scribes: a novel. - L.: Ed. writers in Leningrad, type. “Printing Yard”, 1933. - 184 p.

Ulitskaya, L.E. Sonechka: a story. - M.: EKSMO-press, 2001. - 127 p.

Chukovsky, N.K. Unequal marriage: story // Chukovsky, N.K. Favorites.- M.., 1963.- P.491-542.

Shukshin, V.M. Psychopath: a story // Shukshin, V.M. Stories.- M., 1984.- P.456-467.

Shukshin, V.M. Until the third roosters: stories and tales.- M.: Det. lit., 2002.-302 p.

Ehrenburg, I.G. Day two: novel //Erenburg, I.G. Collection cit.: in 9 volumes - M., 1964. - T.3. - P.151-362.

Foreign fiction

Borges, H.L. Library of Babylon // Borges, H.L. Collection: stories, essays, poems / trans. from Spanish - St. Petersburg, 1992.- pp. 142-150.

Breun, G. de. Buridanov's donkey: a novel / trans. with him. E. Katseva and T. Il-lesh. - M.: Progress, 1970. - 231 p.

Canetti, E. Blinding: a novel / trans. with him. S. Anta. - M.: Panorama, 1992. - 496 p.

Carr, D.D. An ominous whisper. Murder in the Museum wax figures: novels / trans. from English - M.: Top Secret, 1994. - 366 p.

Christie, A. Incident in the Old Castle: A Novel

Christie, A. Complete collection detective works.- T.19: Body in the library: novels, stories.- M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 1997.- 451 p.

Le Carré, D. The spy who came from the cold: a novel / translated from English - L.: Lam-bus-press, 2000. - 237 p.

Marquez, G. G. One Hundred Years of Solitude. - M.: Bayan, 1992. - 447 p.

Perez-Reverte, A. Club Dumas, or the Shadow of Richelieu / trans. from Spanish N. Bogomolova. - M.: Inostranka, 2002. - 596 p.

Roth, F. Tailor's Disease: Professor of Desire; Goodbye Columbus / trans. from English. - M.: ViMo Firm, 1994. - 508 p.

Wallace, E. Seven castles of the tomb; Red Circle; "Dead Eyes of London": detective story. novels.- Chelyabinsk: Yuzh.-Ural. book publishing house, 1995.- 494 p.

France, A. Rise of Angels: a novel / trans. from French M. Bogoslovskaya and N. Rykova. - M.: Pravda, 1958. - 219 p.

Khmelevskaya, I. Reserve version: novel. - M.: Phantom Press, 1998. - 271 p.

Eco, U. The name of the rose: a novel. - M.: Book. Chamber, 1989.-486 p.

2. Bernard Hannah Miss Librarian The humble librarian Erin has lost all hopes of finding the right and loving husband. Now she dreams only of a child. And no men, no romances!

3. Belyaeva L. I. Seven years don’t count

4. Bradbury, Ray `And the army of evil spirits appeared...` (fiction, about a male librarian)

5. Bulgakov M.A. How much Brockhaus can the body tolerate?

6. Volodin A. Idealist

7. Galin A. M. Librarian

8. Gorbunov N.K. Report

9. Goryshin G. Thirty years

10. Grekova I. Summer in the city

11. Dubrovina T., Laskareva E. `Aerobatics` Librarian Masha no longer believed in the possibility of happiness - fate never spoiled her with gifts. And suddenly happiness itself literally fell on her head. The pilot from the crashed plane turned out to be the one and only loved one. My head was spinning with delight. But lies, the machinations of envious people and stupid accidents prevent the timid, long-awaited feeling, whose name is love, from growing stronger in her heart...

12. Elizarov M. `Librarian` bookz.ru/authors/elizarov-mihail/bibliote_873.html Literary Prize Russian Booker for best novel 2008
13. Ilyin V.A. I love you life

14. Kaverin V.A. Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilyevsky Island (many pages in the novel are devoted to libraries)

15. Kazakov Yu. House under the steep slope

16. Kassil L. A. The heart of the library: Essay.

17. Kuznetsov A. Fire

18. Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia
The action in the story takes place in our days. Her heroine Polina is a librarian by profession. Disappointed with reality, Polina leaves for Germany to join her fiancé. However, even there she does not find peace: the German man is too calculating, there are also prostitutes and drug addicts there...

19. Karavaeva A A. Measure of happiness

20. Karelin L. V. Microdistrict

21. Lidin V.G. The book is immortal A story about the head of a regional library who managed to preserve a considerable part of the library collection during the occupation

22. Litvinov Anna and Sergey Odnoklassniki smerti. Readers will once again meet the Litvinovs' favorite characters - journalist Dmitry Poluyanov and his fiancee Nadya Mitrofanova. They find themselves at the epicenter of mysterious events. Nadya is a sweet girl, but very correct and predictable. And how can a modest librarian surprise you? Therefore, when Nadya’s former classmate died, Dima had no doubt: it was an accident. It is not clear why the bride is nervous and begs him to investigate the girl’s death. At first glance, there are no mysteries: an ordinary domestic murder. But Nadya insists on an investigation. Intrigued, Poluyanov takes up this case and very soon finds out: it turns out that the quiet Nadezhda in the past led a life very far from the current exemplary one. And she made powerful enemies for herself - so serious that even now, ten years later, her life is in danger...

23. Likhanova A.A. Children's Library (The library is shown through the eyes of wartime children)

24. Matveev M.Yu. Book people in Russian literature of the twentieth century How libraries, librarians, and bibliophiles are represented in Russian fiction of the twentieth century www.library.ru/3/reflection/articles/matveev_01.php www.spbguki.ru/files/Avt_Matveev_1243239702.doc

25. Musatov A.I. Ostroh Bible

26. Nekrasov V.P. IN hometown

27. Rasputin V. G. Fire

28. Rekemchuk A. Thirty six and six

29. Russians, Anna. A woman in search of a way out of a dead end [Text]: story / A. Russkikh // Neva. - 2008. - No. 3. - P. 123-138 The tragic fate of a female librarian: her husband’s drunkenness and cruelty, problems with her son, the death of her son. magazines.russ.ru/neva/2008/3/ru5.html

30. Rybakova S. Parish librarian www.hram-ks.ru/RS_rassk_v1.shtml

31. Semenov T.V. Street lights

32. Senchin Roman Eltyshev (Friendship of Peoples. 2009. No. 3,4) Valentina Viktorovna, the mother of a family that is steadily heading towards complete destruction, is also a librarian, an elderly woman, tired and heavy. We will never see her with a book: such a familiar way Losing yourself in hopeless everyday life does not occur to either the author or the heroine. We will not discern in her a single glimmer of bookish (in the sense of high) principles and values. From time to time she remembers who wrote such and such a book that she once gave out. Without remembering, he quickly calms down

33. Solzhenitsyn, A.I. `Cancer Ward` One of the characters is a certain Alexey Filippovich Shulubin, a military commander in his youth, later a red professor and teacher of philosophy. He escaped Stalin's camps, but in freedom he went through all the stages of intimidation and humiliation. In the novel, Shulubin is a librarian, a completely broken, unhappy person.

34. Strekhnin Yu. F. There are women in Russian villages

35. Tikhonov N.S. Fearless book lovers Essay about a lieutenant who collected books under German fire in the ruins of Peterhof

36. Ulitskaya L. `Sonechka` Lyudmila Ulitskaya brought out the bright, surprisingly selfless character of the librarian Sonechka. The heroine of `Sonechka`, as if in a long-term faint, reads books voraciously, but the reality of life - love, family, motherhood - knocks her out of reading Old age sets in: she dies husband, daughter leaves, and she returns in spirit to great literature which gives food for the soul, reconciliation, pleasure

37. Umberto Eco `The Name of the Rose` The learned monk William of Baskerville with his disciple Adson arrives at the Franciscan monastery to investigate the series mysterious murders. His investigation leads him into the depths of the abbey's vast library, and the murders, as he discovers, were committed because rare specimen the second part of Aristotle's Poetics, dedicated to comedy and laughter

38. Esther Friesner Death and the Librarian How many times have we already come across this plot: Death comes for his next victim and leaves, slurping unsaltedly, but, as can be seen from this story, the plot is far from exhausted. Esther Friesner managed to create her own without any effort similar story this now classic meeting, while giving Death a number of unusual features.

39. Chernokov M. Books. The bizarre world of bibliophiles of pre-revolutionary Russia appears on the pages of this novel

40. Shaginyan M. S. A day in the Leningrad Public Library

41. Shargorodskaya Inna Hunt for Ovechkin Fairy tale story, which happened to the modest librarian Mikhail Anatolyevich Ovechkin at the border parallel worlds and very real St. Petersburg.

42. Shukshin V. M. Psychopath

43. Ehrenburg I. G. Day two, Until the third roosters, Reader’s confidant

44. Yakovlev Yu. Ya. Knights of the book

The profession of a librarian is one of the most noble professions, requiring love for work, dedication, and strength of soul. This profession is considered socially significant, but not prestigious, almost invisible.

Images of libraries and librarians in Russian fiction of the twentieth century. very interesting and controversial. The authors of the books note the features characteristic of one or another historical period, show the position of libraries in society, and also create a purely literary images and associations, stable stereotypes of librarians.

The nature of the image of a book, library and librarian in fiction appears to be a reflection of society’s attitude towards them. And works of literature make it possible to comprehend the place of the library in the life of society, to understand the image of the librarian in society, because the attitude towards reading, books, the library and its employees depends not so much on the status of the institution, the quantitative indicators of its activities, its social function, how much depends on the ideas and stereotypes existing in society.

We present to your attention a selective list of works by domestic and foreign writers on this topic.

Bagmut, I. Precious edition: story

A story that describes a battle in the ruins of one of the regional libraries. In the midst of the battle, one of the fighters unexpectedly remembers the ordinary library silence as something unattainably distant: “in his imagination a luxurious library lobby and that special, cozy silence of the reading room, when only the quiet rustle of turning pages can be heard,” emerged (10). The library, which lost about 2 million volumes, was opened the very next day after the liberation of the city. One of the surviving books, taken by the main character to his unit under honestly, his comrade returned to the library because he “died while performing a combat mission.”

Birger, A. Spell of words: story

A writer with knowledge of librarianship tells about the work of a librarian. He talks warmly, touchingly, and sympathetically about library work.

Library in a provincial town. It seems that this is the quietest and most harmless place, where time flows slowly and nothing can disturb the established order once and for all. A famous metropolitan writer, arriving at a meeting with readers, unexpectedly finds himself in a whirlpool of mystical and mysterious events related to the local library.

Borisov, L. Blockade: story

The story touches on tragic theme the blockade of Leningrad and book meetings in the besieged city. The author notes that a real bibliophile, even if he had a kilogram of cereal, would be ashamed to buy an entire philosophical library for this “money,” since this is a “cynical case.”

Volodin, A. M. Idealist: play

A. Volodin’s play “The Idealist” was written in 1962. At the center of the play is the image of an idealistic librarian who dreams of introducing all readers to the “reasonable, good, eternal” and, first of all, to reading “serious” literature. This work is a monodrama, a confession of the heroine about her life. She doesn’t have a name, the author calls her somewhat aloofly - She has a profession - a librarian. Four meetings that left a mark on the heroine’s life - four partings. In the 80s, a television film was made based on “The Idealist” with the participation of A. Freindlikh and N. Mikhalkov

Vorobyov, E. Rustle of pages: story

The story is about besieged Leningrad; Leningrader E. Vorobyov is spiritually close to this topic. A special atmosphere is felt here, precise details are remembered: six hundred frozen inkwells in the Public Library.

Galin, A. Librarian: play

By putting the hero's profession in the title, the playwright emphasized its “iconicity.” The play presents a type of library worker - a person who does not agree with the political system and the existing orders in society, who views the library as a kind of refuge.

The play takes place in the library of a psychoneurological dispensary, lost somewhere in the Russian outback. Apparently no one uses the library. However, there are as many as three employees in it, one way or another driven into this trap. The hero is exiled to the library on orders from the KGB for publishing some innocent samizdat magazine.

Soon he should be “rehabilitated” - and he will be able to leave the library. But at the last moment the “librarian” stands up for the unjustly persecuted young man and, as one can understand, new misfortunes await him. It is very significant that it was in the library that the author found a “righteous man” capable of self-sacrifice: “The revolt of weak people is the strongest rebellion!”

Georgievskaya, S. Silver Word: story

“The Silver Word” is a story about a young girl librarian who left Moscow for distant Tuva, about her youthfully passionate and deeply responsible attitude to her work.

Grekova, I. Summer in the city: story

“When the linden trees bloom, the whole city is immersed in the smell. It smells on trams, in shops, on stairs. The large library hall also smelled of linden trees. The windows were open, and when the breeze blew, everyone felt the presence of linden trees..."

Elizarov, M. Librarian: novel

“The Librarian” is, in fact, the first great post-Soviet novel, the reaction of the generation of 30-year-olds to the world in which they found themselves. Behind the fantastic plot lies a parable, a southern Russian tale of lost time, false nostalgia and a barbaric present. The main character, an eternal loser-student, an “extra” person who does not fit into capitalism, finds himself drawn into the thick of a bloody war waged among the so-called “libraries” over the legacy of the Soviet writer D.A. Gromova.

An entire reality unfolds around the books, sometimes reminiscent of an action-packed thriller, sometimes an action movie, but most importantly, in the blurred contours of this skillfully invented reality, as in a mirror, many readers whose childhood began before perestroika recognize themselves and their history. For others - this world, half assembled from real facts of a recent but irrevocably past time, half-invented, will seem no less fantastic than the dying profession of a librarian.

“This is a book about the death of Soviet readers, who forever burn in the flames of socialist realism literature,” says the chairman of the Russian Booker jury, critic Evgeny Sidorov.

Zalygin, S. South American variant: novel

The novel "South American Version", a purely "urban" story about the spiritual toil of a modern intelligent woman.

Kaverin, V. Scandalist, or Evenings on Vasilyevsky Island: novel

There are many pages in the novel dedicated to libraries.

Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia: story

Kalashnikova, V. Nostalgia The action in the story takes place in our days. Her heroine Polina, a librarian by profession, “speaks English and French... she has collected a lot of material (for her dissertation - B.S.), she just needs to rummage a little in the German archives....".

“By the way, just last night Polina had a dream prophetic dream... Her house is on fire, the flames are already rising from below, from the basement, the fire is raging in the kitchen, in the hallway, and she cannot escape. Well, I recognize you, life, I accept you, and I greet you with the ringing of the shield. They won’t take you back to the library, although you can go to another, simpler one, and no longer communicate with academics...” She is an intelligent, decisive modern woman (the type of the new Russian librarian) and, what is very important, very well read - “all her life she did nothing but read books.” At the same time, she is horrified by the surrounding lack of spirituality, drug addiction, prostitution: “... under the communists... there was order... you could watch TV. And now we are showing sex films... the question is, where did this nasty thing come from?” Disappointed with reality, Polina leaves for Germany to join her fiancé. However, even there she does not find peace: the German man is too calculating, there are also prostitutes and drug addicts there... The end of the story is tragic. Polina dies in a car accident.

This story is symbolic. In it, one of the first in Russian modern literature, the image of a librarian is endowed with high intellectual potential, capable of communicating on equal terms with the color of the nation (in this case, academicians).

(Star. - 1998. - No. 9. - pp. 33-104)

Krapivin, V. Orange speckled portrait: story

Julia, the heroine of the story, is an intern in the library of the very small town of Verkhotalye.

Likhanov, A. Children's library: story

The stories “The Store of Beloved Aids”, “Kikimora” and “Children’s Library” by A.A. Likhanov form part of the novel in the stories “Russian Boys”. All of them are about how children who became schoolchildren during the hard times of war went through the war, and what their lives were filled with.

Lobanova, L. From the life of a reader: novel

Marina is tired of the loneliness and hopelessness of her relationship with her leading nowhere married man. She lives among books and dreams of somehow changing her dull existence. And one day dreams come true...

Now Marina has everything and interesting job in a new magazine, and even an affair with famous writer. But... how different the reality of the existence of literary bohemia is from everything that was pictured in her imagination! And how difficult it is to find happiness in the world of those who have chosen the Word as their destiny!..

Logan, B. Librarian

Regina Finch dreamed of working in a library - it seemed to her that nothing could be more interesting, and she was incredibly happy that her dream had come true. But on her first day of work, she witnessed an outrageous scene: two young people passionately made love in one of the rooms of the New York Public Library. Regina's indignation was great, but she couldn't help but notice how handsome and sexy the young man was. She would be surprised to know what awaits her: very soon the handsome macho man who desecrated the holy of holies will become her boyfriend...

Myron Wiki, Dewey. The cat from the library who shocked everyone

The hero of this book is a real-life ginger cat named Dewey, who lived in public library small town Spencer, Iowa, USA.

The book is the memoirs of his owner Vicki Myron. She worked at the Spencer Library for 25 years, 20 of them as director of the library, and all this time she had with her the cat Dewey - the main inhabitant of the library building, an honorary employee, a mascot and everyone's favorite.

So what kind of experiences can an animal endure? How many lives does a cat have? How did it happen that an unfortunate foundling kitten made a small library a meeting place for surrounding residents and a center of attraction for tourists, and a provincial American town became famous all over the world? About this and much more in the amazing book of Vicky Myron, which managed to touch the soul of millions of readers in all corners of the planet.

Myron Wiki, The Nine Lives of Dewey. The heirs of the library cat who shocked the whole world

The touching story of the red cat from the Spencer Township library, described in Vicki Myron's book Dewey, has generated millions of rave reviews. Readers were so imbued with the atmosphere of warmth that Dewey gave people that they inspired Vicki Myron to write a sequel.

The new book contains nine stories about cats that united people, gave them hope and helped them cope with life's difficulties, taught them to rejoice, love and compassion.

Rybakova, S. Parish librarian: story

In the story “The Parish Librarian” by S. Rybakova, Vika, Victoria works in the parish library. “For her, work was a gift from God that she valued. But the readers, in turn, gave Vika a lot. They were all like-minded people in the busy world.

(Our contemporary. - 2002. - No. 10. - P. 94-101)

Senchin R. Eltyshevs: novel

Valentina Viktorovna, the mother of a family that is steadily heading towards complete destruction, is also a librarian, an older woman, tired and heavy. We will never see her with a book: such a familiar way to lose yourself in hopeless everyday life does not occur to either the author or the heroine. We will not discern in her a single glimmer of bookish (in the sense of high) principles and values. From time to time she remembers who wrote such and such a book that she once gave out. Not remembering, he quickly calms down...

(Friendship of Peoples. - 2009. - No. 3,4)

Strekhnin, Yu. There are women in Russian villages: true story

Ulitskaya, L. Sonechka: story

Lyudmila Ulitskaya brought out the bright, surprisingly selfless character of the librarian Sonechka.

“She graduated from library technical school, began working in the basement storage room of the old library and was one of the rare lucky people who, with a slight pain of interrupted pleasure, left her dusty and stuffy basement at the end of the working day, not having had time to get enough of either a series of index cards or whitish sheets of demands for the day who came to her from above, from the reading room, nor with the living weight of volumes falling into her thin hands.”

The heroine of “Sonechka”, as if in a long-term faint, reads books voraciously, but the reality of life - love, family, motherhood - knocks her out of reading... Old age sets in: her husband dies, her daughter leaves - and her soul returns to the great literature that gives food for the soul, reconciliation, pleasure...).

The story "Sonechka" was awarded: Medici (1996, France) and them. Giuseppe Aserbi (1998, Italy).

Chernokov, M. Knizhniki: a novel

The bizarre world of bibliophiles of pre-revolutionary Russia appears on the pages of M. Chernokov’s novel “Scribes”. It describes in detail and colorfully both the “gloomy St. Petersburg antiquarian shops” and the scribes themselves, wholly indulged in their all-consuming passion. At the same time, for help in finding books, they are ready to endure any nickname - “alchemists, empty saints, dusty monster,” etc.

In general, “Scribes” by M. Chernokov is one of the very rare Russian literature works entirely devoted to bibliophile themes, and in subsequent decades nothing like this was published.