The tale of "Fly-zakotukha" is the fruit of the poet's inspiration

"Mukha-tsokotukha", a fairy tale for children, Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky (real name - Nikolai Korneichukov) was written in 1923. At first the State Academic Council, or rather its censorship commission, suspecting the children's poet in sympathy with the village eagles, whose portrait she vividly discerned in the image of horned and rich beetles, forbade the publication of the work. The publishing house "Rainbow" was published only in 1924 in the "Mukhina wedding" (this was its original name). A modern title published in the sixth time a popular fairy tale was in 1927.

Recall a briefly straightforward story. Some Mukha-tsokotuha accidentally found a money in the field, decided to buy a samovar and widely celebrate her name-day by inviting her brothers in class-familiar insects. Unexpectedly, without an invitation, a spider fell in and took the birthday girl away to his spider-corn. None of the guests spoke in defense of the hostess. But when Mukha-tsokotukha was already on the brink of death, suddenly Comarik-hero flew from somewhere, saved the girl from misfortune, having killed the spider-villain, and offered her a hand and heart. All the guests crawled out of their hiding places and again gathered at the festive table, but now in honor of the merry wedding of Komar and the birthday girl.

As Kornei Ivanovich Chukovsky recalled, "Mukha-zokotukha" in August 1923 was born for one day. He was inspired by an unexpected surge of happiness. This happened when the writer was forced on business to come from the dacha to the red-hot Petrograd. Under the influence of emotions, the poet did not run up, but literally flew into the empty apartment and, finding a piece of paper, having obtained a pencil, quickly began to sketch one line after another merry poems about the fly's wedding, and he himself became a groom.

"Mukha-tsokotukha" was conceived long ago, the writer even took ten times for sketching, but more than two lines never happened. But now he effortlessly scribbled the scrap of paper from both sides, without finding more paper, tore off a strip of wallpaper from the wall in the corridor and with a feeling of unthinking happiness continued to record the lines as if dictated.

In a fairy tale celebrate two holidays: a wedding and a name day. The poet sang with all his heart on both. But as soon as the last lines were written down completely written paper, the happy unconsciousness went away in an instant, and Chukovsky again found himself in an empty apartment, immensely tired and hungry, forced to leave the dacha and come to the city for trivial and painful cases. When, however, the mosquito went dancing in the course of a fairy tale, the author also danced, experiencing a terrible inconvenience, since it was very difficult to dance and record at the same time. If someone had watched the whole picture from the outside, he would have wondered with surprise what caused the gray-haired 42-year-old father of the family, burdened with daily work, to rummage around the apartment, treading, spinning and bouncing, while shouting sonorous words and Putting them in a clumsy scroll of dusty wallpaper used?

Then he did not yet understand that such sudden periods of inspired happiness were essentially a return to childhood. Awareness of this came later. Chukovsky believed that you can not be a children's writer to a person who can not part with the burden of adulthood from time to time, splash out of it, forgetting all cares, annoyances and turning into peers of his readers, recipients of his own poems. Unfortunately, the tides of childish joy happened infrequently in the life of the poet. In fact, the tale "Mukha-tsokotukha" - the only work from the first to the last word written in a hurry, swiftly, for one day, on the wave of an unexpected surge of cloudless childish happiness.