Вячеслав Герасимов - Валентин Распутин - Прощание с Матерой
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"Farewell to Materials" - a kind of drama of folk life - was written in 1976. Here we are talking about human memory and fidelity to its kind. The action of the story takes place in the village of Matera, which is about to die: the dam is erected on the river to build a power plant, so "water on the river and rivers will rise and disperse, flood ...", of course, Matur. The fate of the village is decided. Youth without hesitation leaves for the city. The new generation has no craving for the ground, for the homeland, it all seeks to "switch to a new life." Of course, the fact that life is a constant movement, a change that you cannot remain motionless in one place of the century, that progress is necessary. But people who have entered into the era of the NTR should not lose connection with their roots, destroy and forget the centuries -old traditions, cross out thousands of years of history, on the mistakes of which they should have learned, and not make their own, sometimes irreparable.