For many years, a poem allegedly written by the Nobel laureate in literature is spread on the network. We checked whether this is really so.

The poem completely looks like this:

So love to freeze the heart
So that every breath is like the first time,
To only warm up in a soul
At the fire of beloved, cute eyes.

Love so in a minute of happiness
One could give your life
So that, despite all the bad weather,
Anyway to hope and wait.

So that every look is like a revelation,
Each kiss is like God's gift.
So that the hair is touch
A fire would make a fire in the heart.

So love that every desire
It was embodied in life. And they are not counted.
So that every day as a spell
Repeat: "Thank you for being."

Signed by Boris Pasternak, it actively spreads in social networks (Facebook, "VKontakte") And on sites with collections of quotes (" "Pearls of thought" Socratify.net). It is read at various school and public events (for example, in Tomsk And Dzerzhinsk) and c YouTube, print in magazines.

At first glance, the poem does not look like most of Pasternak’s works: the scarcity of images and poor rhymes (“happiness” - “badness”, “give” - “wait”, “do not count” - “eat”) are striking in it. And the turnover “every breath is like the first time” and completely suspiciously coincides with a line from the pop hit of the 1990s “I love you to tears"(Contractor - Alexander Serov, author of the text - Igor Nikolaev).

"Verified" did not find the specified poem in either five -volume collections (1989–1992) of Pasternak's works, nor in full 11-volume (2003–2005). It is also absent in the accessible segment of the Google Book project.

The earliest mention of this poem, found “verified”, dates back to November 2008, when it was published on the user of the “Living Journal” MakeDonSky6 Without indicating authorship. In April next year in one of publications Under the verses appeared the name of the author - Roman Golubnich. There is an author on the network with such a name and surname, but his style, judging by selection Poems on the personal page of Golubnich on the website "Poems.ru", completely different. No one of his work is like a poem attributed to Pasternak, both in size and in the subject.

Two months later, in June 2009, on the same site “Poems.ru” a poem with the same first line, but other other texts Placed Poetess Galina Voleneberg.

In 2015, the official blog of the Russian State Library in the Live Journal appeared publicationdedicated to the network phenomenon - to attribute the authorship of viral poems to famous poets, including Pasternak: “Where does it come from, this creeping chaos? There is from where. We will take a closer look at only one of the sources of spreading - the VKontaktov page "The Best Poems of the Great Poets." <...> The names of famous poets are put under poetry ... to put it mildly, cleansed of the slightest literary virtues. Some of the cited Pasternak’s poems were published in the group repeatedly, each time collecting a thousand or two hearts and several hundred reposts. The page subscribers do not notice fraud and uncritically accept on faith all the materials placed by the administration. Meanwhile, the group is part of a frankly commercialized "community network", the organizers of which earn on advertising, including the publication of any texts and images. This is a business: Any graphomaniac can become Pasternak, paying a completely feasible amount. Only 3,500 rubles, and your text begins an unstoppable procession on the Internet, signed by the name of the Great Classic. ”

Moreover, as one of the most striking examples, the authors of the post brought just the poem "so love that the heart would freeze ...".

In the comments to the publication, they indicated that the author of the encouraging poem is the young poetess Elizabeth Kinchenko. Indeed, a user with that name Placed This is a work on the literary site vpoetah.ru in 2013. However, earlier publications of the poem under her name could not be found, as well as other works of Elizabeth Kinchenko (perhaps this is a pseudonym). Contacted to contact her “verified” could not. Thus, there is no reason to assume that the popular poem “Love so that the heart is freezing ...” belongs to Pasternak. He is not in the books of the poet, and attributed him to Nobeliat only at the turn of the 2000-2010s. The exact authorship was “verified” to establish, most likely, this is a little -known network poet.

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