Bal'mont Pavel

Malo kto iz poetov ispytal pri zhizni takuyu feericheskuyu slavu, kak Konstantin Bal'mont, po revnivomu zamechaniyu V.Bryusova "desyatiletie nerazdel'no carivshiy v russkoy poezii". Proslavivshaya ego kniga "Budem kak Solnce" prizyvala k zhizni radostnoy, svetloy, yarkoy derzkoy. I ego zhizn' byla takoy: rannyaya slava, burnye vlyublennosti, puteshestviya v ekzoticheskie strany, neskol'ko vynuzhdennyh emigracii i nakonec poslednyaya, prevrativshaya "solnechnogo geniya" v pasynka russkoy literatury edva li ne na polveka... I vmeste s tem besprimernaya rabotosposobnost' Bal'monta - poeticheskaya, prozaicheskaya, perevodcheskaya - porazhaet voobrazhenie. P.V.Kupriyanovskiy i N.A.Molchanova, issledovateli tvorchestva poeta, predstavlyayut na sud chitatelya pervyy opyt polnogo zhizneopisaniya Bal'monta, "poeta s utrenney dushoy". (Seriya: Zhizn' zamechatel'nyh lyudey)