Избранное. Поэзия. Драматургия. Максимилиан Гюбрис

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      The idea of this theme, startingly, appeared as a kind of poetic response to that message of Peace, which stays forever kept for us within the works of a noble (and most perspicaсious, this way) English poet P.B.Shelley. Nothing can be more provocative and more agitating for his intellectual reader, – and that’s, to say, to all the further thinking upon this sort of truths, questions and possibly practical answers, – than that laconic wisdom, expressed, for ex., in his upper cosmopolitan «Gella», like that in the wisest words of his Ahasuerus, talking on final «mutability» of Humane, or that in the last two strophes of the Chorus, by the end of the poem, where: «The world is weary of its past, Oh might it die or rest at last!» …At least, any rationalist, who will take this theme seriously, by means of bringing it closer to the proper philosophical matters, or, rather to say, to the proper philosophical way of thinking, could never escape that very naturally rising question, which, after all the romantic desires and wishes, simply, is the question of all the mature, unabstractive «how’s». The allegory, (highly-human allegory, hurray!), much deserves and, therefore, has to be improved, unveiled in things and actions; – in thinking that of how tragically, still, the whole modern world and its society is rapt by all «syndromes of the post-war egotisms», of how much, still, the ethical attitude to celebrating the End of Conflict yet performs but the potential willingness to start the new one, then, I was, especially, consciously driven to develop this theme, rather, in the manner of proper objectivization and dis-chimerization; and that is how, even against all the Plato’s warnings for inexorable escaping of dealing with poesy in philosophy, this particular product of my thought and vision was, finally, created.